Jacques Lacan and the Adventure of Insight: Psychoanalysis in Contemporary Culture

by Shoshana Felman

Book Overview

Jacques Lacan, one of the most influential and controversial French thinkers of the twentieth century, was a practicing and teaching psychoanalyst in Paris, but his revolutionary seminars on Freud reached out far beyond professional circles: they were enthusiastically attended by writers, artists, scientists, philosophers, and intellectuals from many disciplines.

Shoshana Felman elucidates the power and originality of Lacan's work. She brilliantly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674471210
• ISBN13: 9780674471214
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Revelation in Contemporary appropriation of Psychoanalysis

Never has there been such a display of the radical understanding of psychoanalysis beyond that which Lacan has left us. Felman brilliantly, lucidly, synthesizes Freud, Lacan, Literature, and Clinical practice into a model of understanding that can be understood, but not so easily written about. Felman has found that spot where language fails, and where the human experience stops making sense to us--and she makes sense of it with her language. Truly a transcendent work of genius and insight. A warning - this book deals with the highest stakes of psychoanalysis, and if understood well enough, it can have a profound effect on the reader. Approach Felman with caution.

The best book on Lacan

A sophisticated explication of Lacan's reading of the unconscious through a Heideggerian lense.