Jacques Lacan : A Critical Introduction Hardback
by Martin Murray
Part of the Modern European Thinkers series
Hardback
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.
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 8 b&w figures
- Publisher:Pluto Press
- Publication Date:20/12/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780745315959
Other Formats
- EPUB from £15.99
- Paperback / softback from £22.99
- PDF from £88.00
Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:224 pages, 8 b&w figures
- Publisher:Pluto Press
- Publication Date:20/12/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780745315959
