In this first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work, Nasio eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most difficult or obscure moments.
Translation of a French text published in 1992 by +ditions Rivages. Nasio (psychology, U. of Paris VII) demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory. Topics include the linguistic structure of the unconscious, the unconscious as the displacement of the signifier between the patient and the analyst, the therapeutic goal of psychoanalysis, fantasy, the symbolic and imaginary conceptions of the body, and jouissance . Appends a lecture by the author on the concept of the subject of the unconscious. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan is the first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work. Juan-David Nasio makes numerous theoretical advances and eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most difficult or obscure moments. What is distinctive, in the end, about Nasio's treatment of Lacan's theory is the extent to which Lacan's fundamental conceptsthe unconscious, jouissance, and the bodybecome the locus of the overturning or exceeding of the discrete boundaries of the individual. The recognition of the implications of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, then, brings the analyst to adopt what Nasio calls a "special listening."
In this first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work, Nasio eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most difficult or obscure moments.