The Book of Love and Pain - Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan

Addresses the limits in treating pain psychoanalytically, and offers a phenomenological description of psychic pain, particularly the pain of a lost loved one.

About the author

Juan-David Nasio is a psychoanalyst who lives and works in Paris and was the first psychoanalyst to be inducted into the prestigious French Legion of Honor. David Pettigrew is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University. François Raffoul is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University and the author of Heidegger and the Subject. Their previous translations include Jean-Luc Nancy's and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe's The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan and Juan-David Nasio's Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan, both published by SUNY Press. They have also coedited Heidegger and Practical Philosophy and Disseminating Lacan, both also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Juan-David Nasio
• Assisted by: David Pettigrew (Translation), Francois Raffoul (Translation), François Raffoul (Translation)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.2003
• EAN: 9780791459263
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5926-3
• No. of pages: 143
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 228 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis; SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis; Suny Psychoanalysis and Cultur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Psychoanalyse, Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Existential