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The work of Jacques Lacan is second only to Freud in its impact on psychoanalysis. Yannis Stavrakakis clearly examines Lacan's challenging views on time, history, language, alterity, desire and sexuality from a political standpoint. It is the first book to provide an overview of the social and political implications of Lacan's work as a whole for students coming to Lacan for the first time.The first part of Lacan and the Political offers a straightforward and systematic assessment of the importance of Lacan's categories and theoretical constructions for concrete political analysis. The second

"Jacques Lacan: The Basics provides a clear and succinct introduction to the work of Jacques Lacan, one of the key thinkers of the twentieth century. Lacan's ideas are applied in the study of the humanities, politics, and psychology as well as contemporary media and the arts, but their complexity makes them impenetrable to many. This book is unique in explaining the key concepts and context, from Lacan's understanding of psychoanalysis to drive and desire, in an accessible way without diluting them beyond meaning. Examples from popular culture are used throughout to emphasise the ideas being discussed and a full glossary and list of resources for further reading encourages additional exploration. This engaging and accessible text is essential reading for all those interested in Lacan and his work, as well as students of psychology, psychoanalysis, literature, politics, cultural studies, film studies, and more"--

Entre Heidegger y Lacan

L'article rapproche Lacan d'une disposition spécifique de la sociologie (l'aperception sociologique) entendue comme prise en compte du rapport de l'individu à son milieu collectif. Trois aspects de l'œuvre rattachent Lacan à cette disposition : l'attention aux rapports sociaux dans la construction de la personnalité et quant aux formes de pathologies individuelles ou collectives ; l'arpentage des seuils entre nature et culture dans la spécification de l'humain ; l'importance attachée à la notion de milieu. Au-delà des références explicites à Durkheim, Mauss ou Lévi-Strauss, l'article voudrait suggérer un fructueux travail sur le style théorique lacanien dans ses rapports avec la sociologie et l'anthropologie et renouer le dialogue suspendu entre sociologie et psychanalyse.

Lacan developed his theory and practice of psychoanalysis on the basis of Freud''s original work. In his ""return to Freud"" he not only elaborated and revised some of Freud''s innovative ideas, but turned to important questions and problems in Freud''s theory that had remained obscure and unresolved, and provided a new way of articulating these issues and their implication for psychoanalytic theory and practice.This book offers a selection of chapters about some of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. The authors aim to explore the trajectory of the development of these concepts from t

This critical review proposes that Lacan's concept of alienation has little relevance to Marx's notion of estrangement of labor and in fact depoliticizes it. Proceeding from a position that is not unsympathetic to poststructuralist theory, the author finds fault with Lacanian structuralism and particularly enlisting the help of Durkheim in attempting to enrich Marx's psychology. While the author credits professors Worrell and Krier for attempting to take their critique of Marx to a more contemporary theoretical level, one which can potentially have value, he nevertheless sees the use of Lacan and Durkheim to rescue Marx as inappropriate, problematic, and a rejection of Marx's humanistic understanding of human relations as well as an unsupported dismissal of his notion of alienation based on human and material commodification.

This essay pretends to introduce and elucidate the complex relationship of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan with writing through his theory of the autonomy of the signifier. To reach this goal i will focus primarily, but not only, in some lessons of the seminar XViii-year 1971 – titled "on a Discourse That Would not Be semblance'. This seminar is located in a historical moment of fundamental importance to its author: political and social changes do not leave indifferent the French psychoanalyst, who the precedent year, 1970, stands with a critical sign of himself; after this year we can distinguish between Lacan i and Lacan ii, and we can also talk about Freud, in a personal way and as founder of psychoanalysis. This movement bears the title of an important workshop: 'The other side of psychoanalysis', which shapes the fundamental notion of discourse as a structure that sets the nucleus of any act in which words are involved, words that are severely constrained of a structure that precedes it and that are called by Lacan 'discourses' .He will resume them in four types: the master, the hysteric, the analyst and the discourse of the university. after the important seminar on The Purloined Letter" of 1956 and the text of 1957 «The instance of the Letter in the Unconscious», Lacan will return, after fourteen years, to the argument of writing in a period marked by change: in society and in his doctrine. ; Este estudio quiere ser un modo de introducir y dilucidar la compleja relación del psicoanalista francés Jacques Lacan con la escritura a través de su teoría de la autonomía del significante. Para ello la atención se centrará, principalmente pero no solamente, en unas lecciones del seminario XViii –año 1971– titulado "De un discurso que no fuera del semblante", seminario que se coloca en una época, histórica y personal, de fundamental importancia para su autor: los cambios políticos y sociales no dejan indiferente al psicoanalista francés que el año antes, 1970, se distingue, con un gesto crítico, de sí mismo –se podrá hablar después de este año de un Lacan i y de un Lacan ii–, pero también de Freud en tanto que nombre propio y padre del psicoanálisis. Todo este movimiento lleva el título de un importante seminario: "el reverso del psicoanálisis", donde se prefigura la noción fundamental de discurso como estructura que constituye la matriz de cualquier acto en el que se toma la palabra, una palabra que está rigurosamente constreñida por una estructura que la precede y que son los tipos de enunciación que Lacan llama "discursos". Los restringirá a cuatro: el del amo, el del histérico, el del analista y el discurso de la universidad. Después del importante "seminario sobre La carta robada" de 1956 y del escrito de 1957 "La instancia de la letra en el inconsciente", Lacan volverá, catorce años después, sobre el tema de la escritura en una época marcada por el cambio: en la sociedad y en su misma doctrina.