Routledge Library Editions: Lacan

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A major influence on French intellectuals in the twentieth century, Jacques Lacan has been referred to as ‘the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud’. Routledge Library Editions: Lacan offers a selection of titles, which examine the influence of Lacan’s theories in a number of disciplines and includes an annotated bibliography of his works. It brings together as a set, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1983 and 1991. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Original Title Page Original Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Lacan and the Subject of Language 1. Language: Much Ado About What? 2. Homo sapiens or Homo desiderans: The Role of Desire in Human Evolution 3. The Sexual Masquerade: A Lacanian Theory of Sexual Difference Lacan and the Subject of Psychoanalysis 4. The Analytic Experience: Means, Ends, and Results 5. Signifier, Object, and the Transference 6. Theory and Practice in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis Lacan and the Subject of Literature 7. Style is the Man Himself 8. Fictions 9. Where is Thy Sting? Some Reflections on the Wolf-Man 10. The Truth Arises from Misrecognition 11. Literature as Symptom Index