1st Edition

Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land Demystifying Lacanian Psychoanalysis

By Ali Yansori Copyright 2026
196 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass . Bringing concepts of “reality”, “truth”, and “knowledge” under scrutiny, and assuming no prior knowledge of the original Alice books on the reader’s part, Ali Yansori looks at the... Read more

Preface  Introduction 

Exposition  

Exposition: Alice's Adventures in Lacan-Land 

First Development: Language  

1. Psychoanalysis's Uncharted Territory 

2. Language, Langugage, Everywhere: The Demarcation Problem 

3. Existential Implications  

Second Development: The Self  

4. The Self: Language's Most Important Product 

5. The Mirror Stage

Recapitulation: Implications for the Individual and Society  

6. Beyond Speech 

7. Art as Salvation: A Quick Dive into Contemporary Issues  References

Biography

Ali Yansori is a philosopher and musicologist and is an assistant professor in aesthetics at Palacký University Olomouc. His interests include mysticism (most notably Persian Sufism), existentialism, late Romanticism, and ethics as an art of living.