Lacan

By Malcolm Bowie

Book Overview

The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is a uniquely complex writer and the originator of an especially unsettling view of the human subject. But the singularity of Lacan's achievement has... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674508521
• ISBN13: 9780674508521
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Deciphering Lacan

Bowie's summaries of Lacanian psychoanalysis are both clear and complete. The organization of the book by broad topics (such as "Symbollic, Imaginary,Real...and True"), rather than by individual works, allows a Lacanian novice an overview of things to come, as well as an invaluable conceptual scaffolding that makes reading works such as "Ecrits" tolerable and comprehensible.