Ecrits: A Selection

By Jacques Lacan

Book Overview

Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. This new translation of his complete works offers welcome, readable access to Lacan's seminal thinking on diverse subjects touched upon over the course of his inimitable intellectual career.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393300471
• ISBN13: 9780393300475
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 0.9" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

a major achievement

Bruce Fink's translation of Ecrits is sure to supplant Sheridan's translation as the most eminently readable and comprehesive rendering of Lacan in English. Having worked with both translations as well as the original French, I can say with confidence that the 2002 translation is superior in almost every respect, and I anxiously await the full translation of the Ecrits (an incredible accomplishment, to be sure) later this year.

An Essential Translation

The experience of reading Lacan can be difficult for some, if not most of us; his work requires us to be active in our comprehension and imagination. For many years there has only been one translation of this important work, which has hampered Lacan's introduction to the Anglophone world. We now have a new translation and splendid it is! It does not give instant access to Lacan and the book still needs "active" reading, but it certainly helps. This modern translation - worked on by three people close to the work of Lacan - is fully annotated and referenced to give the reader a complete entry into the work as composed at the time (a hermeneutics of Lacan, perhaps?). We have many books about the work of this important psychoanalyst and thinker - but eventually the desire comes to read his original work and this translation certainly allows, supports and encourages this. This translation of the Ecrits will prove valuable for many years to come. Congatulations need to go to Fink, Fink and Grigg for their excellent work.