Introductory Lectures on Lacan

In: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library

In: Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library

In: The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR) Ser.

Abstract

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