{"product_id":"jacques-lacan-an-outline-of-a-life-and-a-history-of-a-system-of-thought-9780745623146","title":"Jacques Lacan  An Outline of a Life and a History","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRoudinesco follows the development of Lacana s career from his early clinical practice and conflicts with the establishment, as he constantly pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis from its roots in biology and neurology to a powerful critical tool that resonated in fields ranging from literary theory to feminist politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This [is an] extraordinary book about the most flamboyant French neo-Freudian of the 20th century...' \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'She acknowledges Lacan's personal absurdity and literary extravagance while simultaneously showing why and how he matters. Ms. Roudinesco captures the freshness of the intellectual world in which Lacan's developing notions were concocted ... Ms Roudinesco's biography, solidly translated by Barbara Bray, is a welcome aid to keeping him in perspective.' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The English translation of this biography is ... an event of the first importance.' \u003ci\u003eThe Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'It is the richest and fullest biographical study of Lacan to date, and it is unlikely to be bettered for a long time.' \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'She provides perhaps the best, and certainly the most detailed, account of Lacan's life and work to date.' \u003ci\u003eNew Formations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'A riveting and illuminating account of the life and thought of Freud's most controversial posthumous rival. An accessible introductin to a demanding thinker.' \u003ci\u003eDennis Hollier, Yale University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'For anyone seeking to understand what is distinctive about the French psychoanalytic tradition this book is simply indispensable.' \u003ci\u003eMalcolm Bowie, Oxford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Elisabeth Roudinesco takes us on a fascinating journey ... fascinating like Lacan himself.' Michael Kajman, \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'[This book] is a wonderful success: clear and detailed, it will be read with interest by everyone - including those who do not worship the Master.' Luc Ferry, \u003ci\u003eL'Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations. \u003cp\u003eForeword.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Father Figures:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Vinegar Merchants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Faces on the Ward.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Psychiatry Teachers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Crazy Ladies:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Story of Marguerite.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. In Praise of Paranoia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Reading Spinoza.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. The Papin Sisters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Man's Estate:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Private Life and Public Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Fascism: The End of the Viennese Epic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Marienbad.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Family Histories:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Georges Bataille and Co.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Between Lucien Febvre and Edouard Pichon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: War and Peace:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Marseilles, Vichy, Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Thoughts on Human Freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. Double Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. An Unsatisfactory Encounter with Melanie Klein.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Elements of a System of Thought:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. Theory of Treatment: Kinship Structures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. A Resounding Tribute to Martin Heidegger.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. Intersecting Fates: Jacques Lacan and Frangoise Dolto.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. The Symposium and the Storm.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22. Structure and the Name-of-the-Father.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: The Power and the Glory:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23. Dialogue with Louis Althusser.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24.\"I hereby found...\": Kant with Sade.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25. The Ecrits: Portrait of an Editor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26. Revolution: Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Lacan, Alternate Contemporaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: In Search of the Absolute:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27. Oriental Yearnings and a Series of Bereavements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28. Mathemes and Borromean Knots.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29. Psychoanalysis Reduced to Zero.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30. Time for a Pharaoh.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX: Legacies.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31. History of the Seminar:.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32. Freudian France: The State of Play.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Members of the International Psychoanalytical Association (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B: IPA: World Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C: IPA Congresses (1908-1993).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix D: Societies and Groups Not Belonging to the IPA.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix E: Principal Reviews Established After 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix F: Bibliography for Jacques Lacan's Article on the Family for the Encyclopidie fran\u0026amp;ccedilaise (1938).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix G: Jacques Lacan's Report Card.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix H: Facsimile of Lacan's Corrections to \"Discours de clöture des journées sur les psychoses de l'enfant\".\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix I: Genealogy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeneral Bibliography of the Works of Jacques Lacan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404352594263,"sku":"9780745623146","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jacques-lacan-an-outline-of-a-life-and-a-history-of-a-system-of-thought-9780745623146","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}