The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV

by Jacques Lacan

The unfulfilled and unsatisfied mother around whom the child ascends the upward slope of his narcissism is someone real. She is right there, and like all other unfulfilled creatures, she is in search of what she can devour, quaerens quem devoret. What the child once found as a means of quashing the symbolic unfulfilment is what he may possibly find across from him again as a wide-open maw [...] To be devoured is a grave danger that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745660355
• ISBN13: 9780745660356
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"