The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based, namely, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive. Along the way he argues for a structural affinity between psychoanalysis and language, discusses the relation of psychoanalysis to religion, and reveals his particular stance on topics ranging from sexuality and death to alienation and repression. This book constitutes the essence of Dr. Lacan's sensibility.

Author: Jacques Lacan
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/17/1998
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.75w x 0.79d
ISBN: 9780393317756

About the Author
Lacan, Jacques: - The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. His many published works include Ecrits and The Seminars.Miller, Jacques-Alain: - Jacques-Alain Miller is Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII and editor of Lacan's Seminars.