Lacan for beginners / by Philip Hill ; illustrated by David Leach.

By:

Hill, Philip, 1961-

Contributor(s):

Leach, David

Material type: Text

TextSeries: For beginners documentary comic bookPublication details: Chennai, India : Orient BlackSwan, 2011.Edition: First Orient Blackswan Impression editionDescription: 169 pages : illustration ; 23 cmISBN:

9788125022367

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Comic books, strips, etc.

DDC classification:

150.195092 H645l 2011 22

LOC classification:

BF109.L28 H55 2009

Contents:

1. Introduction : What is psychoanalysis? What have images got to do with the ego? What does the ego do? -- 2. What has language got to do with psychoanalysis? What did Lacan mean when he said that 'the unconscious is structured like a language'? -- 3. Lacan's theory of 'the real' as the 'impossible to say' that always returns -- 4. 'Jouissance' or sexual enjoyment and desire. Is sexual enjoyment something that only happens through intercourse? How are 'need', 'demand', and 'desire' differentiated? -- 5. Objects and their subject -- 6. The four discourses : four ways of speaking and being -- 7. Overview of psychopathology : focus on perversion, hysteria and obsessional neurosis -- 8. What is psychosis? -- 9. What is feminine sexuality? What does it mean to be a woman? -- 10. What is topology? and : What does it have to do with time? Why do Lancanians use variable length sessions? -- 11. What is the good of psychoanalysis? and : What is the meaning of life? -- 12. Review.

Summary: "Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20,000 psychoanalysts in the world, about half are 'Lacanians') yet most people know nothing about him. The 10,000 analysts who use Lacan's ideas work mostly in France, Spain, Italy, and South America. To the rest of the world, including England and America, Lacan is a genius-in-waiting, due to be 'discovered' any day now. Despite or because of his brilliance, Lacan is difficult to understand. He wrote with an obscure, style that casually refers to philosophy, linguistics, biology, mathematics, etc.--and to make matters worse, his ideas changed over the years. Lacan For Beginners by Philip Hill introduces the reader to Lacan's theories and their relation to clinical practice in twelve elegantly structured chapters, designed around tantalizing questions that clarify Lacan's ideas. Lacan For Beginners is written with insight and wit and illustrated with examples from popular culture and cinema. The artwork is humorous and informative, and works with the text. So don't you think it is about time you become familiar with his work?" --Publisher description.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Premier University Central Library	150.195092 H645l 2011	1	Available		17506
Books	Premier University Central Library	150.195092 H645l 2011	2	In transit from Premier University DELL Library to Premier University Central Library since 23/05/2019		17507

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Jacques Lacan is probably the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud (of the roughly 20,000 psychoanalysts in the world, about half are 'Lacanians') yet most people know nothing about him. The 10,000 analysts who use Lacan's ideas work mostly in France, Spain, Italy, and South America. To the rest of the world, including England and America, Lacan is a genius-in-waiting, due to be 'discovered' any day now. Despite or because of his brilliance, Lacan is difficult to understand. He wrote with an obscure, style that casually refers to philosophy, linguistics, biology, mathematics, etc.--and to make matters worse, his ideas changed over the years. Lacan For Beginners by Philip Hill introduces the reader to Lacan's theories and their relation to clinical practice in twelve elegantly structured chapters, designed around tantalizing questions that clarify Lacan's ideas. Lacan For Beginners is written with insight and wit and illustrated with examples from popular culture and cinema. The artwork is humorous and informative, and works with the text. So don't you think it is about time you become familiar with his work?" --Publisher description.

DELL.

Originally published: London : Writers and Reader's, Inc., 1999.

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