{"product_id":"reading-lacans-ecrits-9781032205779","title":"Reading Lacans Ecrits","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Lacan's\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/em\u003e is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's \u003ci\u003eÉcrits \u003c\/i\u003eto be published in English. This third volume provides an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's most crucial and notoriously challenging writings, from Logical Time' to Response to Jean Hyppolite', and including The Function and Field of Speech', Variations on the Standard Treatment' and Presentation on Transference'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the contributions of some of the world's most renowned Lacanian scholars and analysts  such as Bernard Burgoyne, Marc De Kesel and Russell Grigg  this volume encompasses a series of systematic, paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries which not only contextualize, explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments, but afford the reader multiple interpretive routes through the complete edition of Lacan's most labyrinthine of texts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs there is no existing set of exhaustive commentaries on Lacan's \u003ci\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/i\u003e availab\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'It all began with an improbable wager: ask 35 scholars to each write something intelligible about every single paragraph in one of the texts included in Jacques Lacan's magnum opus, \u003ci\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/i\u003e, so as to generate a commentary on the entire 800-page volume. And yet, after years of preparation, the wager has paid off: we have here useful and at times brilliant examples of textual explication! Cryptic formulations are lucidly unpacked, and mysterious references are provided, giving the serious reader myriad keys to fascinating texts'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBruce Fink\u003c\/strong\u003e, translator of \u003cem\u003eÉcrits: The First Complete Edition in English \u003c\/em\u003e(2006)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Let’s face it: Lacan’s \u003cem\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the classical texts of modern thought are unreadable - they remain impenetrable if we just pick the thick volume up and start to read it. Hook, Neill and Vanheule provide what we were all waiting for: a detailed commentary which does not aim to replace reading \u003ci\u003eÉcrits \u003c\/i\u003ebut to render it possible. The three volumes do wonder, their effect is no less than magic: when, after getting stuck at a particularly dense page of \u003cem\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/em\u003e, we turn to the corresponding pages in the commentary and then return to the page of \u003cem\u003eÉcrits \u003c\/em\u003ewhich pushed us to madness, the same lines appear in all the clarity of their line of thought. It is thus a safe prediction that Hook, Neill and Vanheule's commentary will become a kind of permanent companion of the English translation of \u003cem\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/em\u003e, indispensable for everyone who wants to find her or his way in its complex texture'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSlavoj \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eŽižek \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Like a Rosetta stone, this accessible and superbly-written collection superimposes three levels of translation that render legible a text that Lacan quipped was not meant to be read. Cracking the code of Lacanian hieroglyphics, we discover the genealogy of his thought. These exceptionally fresh and user-friendly approaches testify to the enduring relevance and urgency of his opus magnum'. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePatricia Gherovici\u003c\/strong\u003e, psychoanalyst and author of \u003cem\u003eTransgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2017). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'These essays will be an invaluable resource not only for those approaching \u003cem\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/em\u003e for the first time but also for seasoned readers. Broad in scope yet following the detail of the text, they help guide us through Lacan’s difficult prose, elucidating, contextualizing and clarifying, and reminding us time and time again of the precision, power and originality of his rethinking of psychoanalysis'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDarian Leader\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to ‘Reading Écrits’: \u003cem\u003eLa trahison de l’écriture \u003c\/em\u003e1. Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism 2. Presentation on Transference 3. On the Subject who is Finally in Question 4. The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis 5. Variations on the Standard Treatment 6. On a Purpose 7. Introduction and Response to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s \"Verneinung\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018899390807,"sku":"9781032205779","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032205779.jpg?v=1750778577","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reading-lacans-ecrits-9781032205779","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}