Jacques Lacan
A Critical Introduction
1st Edition
Published on 20. December 2015
224 pages
978-1-78371-724-8 (ISBN)
Description
*Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Prize, 2016*
The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) have had a major influence on modern thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and densely conveyed. Lacan's detractors have accused him of obscurantism, pretentiousness and even incoherence, his psychoanalytic practice and his personal life were complicated - he was famous and contentious in equal measure.
Martin Murray provides a lucid account of Lacan's key concepts, including the mirror stage, and his relationship to Freud's ideas, amongst many others. Tracing their origins in his diverse interests: art, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and psychoanalysis. Murray also investigates Lacan's professional life, personal life and institutional influence in an attempt to understand the charismatic and controversial person he became.
The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) have had a major influence on modern thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and densely conveyed. Lacan's detractors have accused him of obscurantism, pretentiousness and even incoherence, his psychoanalytic practice and his personal life were complicated - he was famous and contentious in equal measure.
Martin Murray provides a lucid account of Lacan's key concepts, including the mirror stage, and his relationship to Freud's ideas, amongst many others. Tracing their origins in his diverse interests: art, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and psychoanalysis. Murray also investigates Lacan's professional life, personal life and institutional influence in an attempt to understand the charismatic and controversial person he became.
Reviews / Votes
'Martin Murray talks 'about Lacan' in a way that nobody has before: he explains in crystal clear, easily understandable language not just what the notoriously opaque Lacan's ideas were 'about', but also the various shaping forces -- personal, historical, cultural, ideological, artistic' -- Jonathan Gil Harris, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of English, Ashoka University 'With extraordinary intellectual generosity (and some humour), he forges a form of psychoanalytic sensibility that is vitalised, not exhausted, by the dazzle and difficulty of its subject' -- Vicky Lebeau, Professor of English, University of Sussex 'This book deserves a space on the shelves of even those who have already amassed a significant number of introductions to Lacanian thought ... Essential' -- CHOICEMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 b&w figures
File size
0,92 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78371-724-8 (9781783717248)
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Book
12/2015
Pluto Press
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Person
Martin Murray is the Head of Creative Industries in the School of Computing and Digital Media. at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of Jacques Lacan: A Critical Introduction (Pluto, 2015).
Content
Acknowledgements
1. Stopping and Starting
2. Sweet and Sour
3. Sense and Nonsense
4. Man and Window
5. I and I
6. Fight and Flight
7. Word and Wish
8. Ending and Beginning
Notes
Bibliography of Works by Lacan
General Bibliography
Index
1. Stopping and Starting
2. Sweet and Sour
3. Sense and Nonsense
4. Man and Window
5. I and I
6. Fight and Flight
7. Word and Wish
8. Ending and Beginning
Notes
Bibliography of Works by Lacan
General Bibliography
Index
