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Reading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's
Écrits to be published in English.
List of contents
List of Jacques Lacan's Seminars; Introduction to 'Reading the
Écrits': La trahison de l'écriture
Derek Hook, Calum Neill & Stijn Vanheule 1 The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis
Adrian Johnston 2 Psychoanalysis and Its Teaching
Michael Miller 3 The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956
Patricia Gherovici & Manya Steinkoler 4 The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud
Calum Matheson 5 On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis
Stijn Vanheule 6 The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power
Reitske Meganck & Ruth Inslegers 7 Remarks on Daniel Lagache's Presentation: "Psychoanalysis and Personality Structure"
Ed Pluth
About the author
Derek Hook is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria. A former lecturer at the London School of Economics and at Birkbeck College, he is a psychoanalytic practitioner, and the author of
Six Moments in Lacan.Calum Neill is an Associate Professor of Psychoanalysis and Cultural Theory at Edinburgh Napier University. He is the author of
Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity,
Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice and
Jacques Lacan: The Basics.
Stijn Vanheule is a Clinical Psychologist and a Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also a privately practicing psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of
The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective and
Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited - From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation.
Summary
Reading Lacan’s Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan’s Écrits to be published in English.
