The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis

By Jacques Lacan

Book Overview

A classic work on Freud by one of France's foremost philosophers and literary critics.This work excites and fascinates. -- Le Monde

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801806739
• ISBN13: 9780801806735
• Release Date: August 1968
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

The Master Speaks

'All speech is demand, the demand for love.'Jacques Lacan was much more than a psychoanalyst. In his investigations of language and his twenty year long seminar in France, he explored a realm of topics interesting to scholars in a variety of fields: sexuality, language, the self, the unconscious. Probably his most groundbreaking work - partially contained in this volume - concerns the importance of language as expressing our desire, our need for love - a desire, by the way, that can never be fulfilled and results in pain and frustration.Anthony Wilden provides a decent translation, but all translations of Lacan's work - like the writings of Derrida - face a very difficult task. Highly recommended...