Jacques Lacan

About this book

The work of Jaques Lacan eminent French psychoanalyst and influential thinker (1901-1981) is recognized as being of vital importance to psychoanalysts philosophers and all those concerned with the the study of man and language. Its value is not limited to the field of psychoanalysis alone but provides the basis for a new philosophy of man and a new theory of discourse. It is however notoriously difficult for the non-specialist reader to come to terms with Lacans reading of Freud and his investigations of the unconscious. Until now there has been no satisfactory general introduction to Lacan and this first general exposition of his work translated and revised from the French edition is designed to provide the conceptual tools which will enable the reader to study Lacan using the original texts.