The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Psychoses (Vol. Book III) (Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Paperback)) (Bk. 3)
By Jacques Lacan.
Description
Sometimes controversial, invariably fascinating, Lacan's psycholinguistic approach to analysis of the psychoses is seen here in virtually unmediated form. Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inescapable connection to the symbolic process through which signifier is joined with signified. Lacan deftly navigates the ontological levels of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real to explain psychosis as "foreclosure," or rejection of the primordial signifier. Then, bridging the gap between the theoretical and the prac...
ISBN(s)
0393316122, 9780393316124
