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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a landmark. Far beyond another elucidation of Lacanian theory and practice this book is the first innovation that extends Lacanian and Freudian approaches to contemporary ethos and environments. Beyond poststructuralism and postmodernism it contains numerous innovations of Lacanian concepts regarding femininity and masculinity, brief analysis, trace and trait. The notions of the void, lack, and emptiness are put to work in relation to a fourth moment of Oedipus and to the decline of the paternal function. Only someone with a long track of commitment and study of the Freudian-Lacanian corpus, as well as contemporary psychoanalysis, could have brought such remarkable innovations." - Andre Patsalides, University of Louvain, Belgium
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Theory. Trace and Trait: Non-identity as the Aim of Identification in Psychoanalysis. Semblance and the Luminous Face of the Void. Part II: Practice. On the Aim and End of Analysis in the Lacanian School. Variable Length Analysis and the Question of Brief Analysis. Part III: Culture. Postmodern Theory and Culture and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Magritte, The Void, and The Imagination.
