Lacan at the Scene

by Henry Bond

Book Overview

A Lacanian approach to murder scene investigation.

What if Jacques Lacan--the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst--had worked as a police detective, applying his theories to solve crimes? This may conjure up a mental film clip starring Peter Sellers in a trench coat, but in Lacan at the Scene, Henry Bond makes a serious and provocative claim: that apparently impenetrable events of violent death can be more effectively unraveled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262518082
• ISBN13: 9780262518086
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher