Jacques Lacan - An Outline of a Life and History of a System of Thought

Roudinesco follows the development of Lacan′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.

Summary

Roudinesco 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.

Product details

• Authors: Elisabeth Roudinesco, E Roudinesco, Elisabeth Roudinesco, Elisabeth (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Roudinesco, Roudinesco Elisabeth
• Publisher: Wiley
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.1999
• EAN: 9780745623146
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-2314-6
• No. of pages: 596
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 233 mm x 43 mm
• Weight: 879 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis