Anika Lemaire

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 Lacan's 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.

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 Lacan's 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.

Ce livre est pr fac par Jacques Lacan lui-m me, qui est l'une des figures les plus discut es de la psychologie actuelle. G nie encore mal compris pour les uns, illusioniste pour les autres, v ritable red couvreur de Freud pour ses disciples, promu ma tre penser par les courants la mode, Jacques Lacan a sa l gende qu'il tol re ou entretient par l' sot risme de son style. Mis l' cart par une v n rable institution d'enseignement sup rieur, il voit ses id es accueillies par les mouvements d'avant-garde. L'histoire le rangera-t-elle parmi les grands pr curseurs ignor s par leurs contemporains parce que trop peu conforme aux id es re ues, ou faux proph tes ? //Cet ouvrage ne se veut pas critique. Il introduit la lecture des crits et ouvre une voie d'acc s au courant de l' cole lacanienne. Anika Lemaire est dipl m e en psychologie de l'Universit Catholique de Louvain et Chercheuse mandataire au FNRS.