168 Pages
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Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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Jacques Lacan is one of the most challenging and controversial of contemporary thinkers, as well as the most influential psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacanian theory has reached far beyond the consulting room to engage with such diverse disciplines as literature, film, gender and social theory. This book covers the full extent of Lacan's career and provides an accessible guide to Lacanian concepts... Read more
Part 1 Why Lacan?; Part 2 Key Ideas; Chapter 1 The Imaginary; Chapter 2 The Symbolic; Chapter 3 The Oedipus Complex and the Meaning of the Phallus; Chapter 4 The Subject of the Unconscious; Chapter 5 The Real; Chapter 6 Sexual Difference part3 After Lacan;
Biography
Sean Homer is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at City College, Greece. He is the author of Fredric Jameson (1998) and co-editor (with Douglas Kellner) of Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader (2004).
"Sean Homer manages to pin down the notoriously evasive writings of Jacques Lacan and make them comprehensible, helpfully signposting the journey into deeper philosophical waters." -Metapsychology
