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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, providing an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's best-known but notoriously challenging writings.
List of contents
Introduction 1. "Overture to this Collection" 2. "The Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter' " 3. "On My Antecedents" 4. "Beyond the 'Reality Principle'" 5. 'The Mirror Stage as Formative of the
I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience' 6. 'Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis' 7. 'A Theoretical Introduction to the Functions of Psychoanalysis in Criminology' with Michel Cenac 8. 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'
About the author
Calum Neill is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Continental Philosophy at Edinburgh Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of
Jacques Lacan: The Basics (2023),
Ethics and Psychology (2016) and
Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumptions of Subjectivity and editor of
Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049. With Derek Hook, he edits the Palgrave Lacan Series.
Derek Hook is Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is the author of
Six Moments in Lacan (2017) and
A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial (2012) and editor of
Lacan on Depression and Melancholia (with Stijn Vanheule) (2022) and
Lacan and Race (with Sheldon George) (2022). With Calum Neill, he edits the Palgrave Lacan Series.
Stijn Vanheule is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University in Belgium, a practising psychoanalyst and a member of the New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis. He is author of
Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited (2017) and
The Subject of Psychosis (2011) and editor of
Lacan on Depression and Melancholia (with Derek Hook) (2022).
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, providing an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's best-known but notoriously challenging writings.
