Ellie Ragland: 3 books
Essays on the Pleasures of Death
From Freud to Lacan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In Essays on the Pleasure of Death, Ellie Ragland discusses the interconnection of Freud and Lacan's theories, while maintaining that crucial differences between them still exist. Ragland argues, however, that Lacan's "return to Freud" gave coherence to concepts which Freud could never explain:...
Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis
Reflections on Seminar XVII, sic vi
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2006
This collection is the first extended interrogation in any language of Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII. Originally delivered just after the Paris uprisings of May 1968, Seminar XVII marked a turning point in Lacan’s thought; it was both a step forward in the psychoanalytic debates and an important...
Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure
Topology and language in psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Lacan postulated that the psyche can be understood by means of certain structures, which control our lives and our desires, and which operate differently at different logical moments or stages of formation. Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure offers us a reading of the major concepts of Lacan...