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Hardcover. Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the historyof psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first timein English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that itis not nostalgia for the object that causes anxiety but rather itsimminence. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 690.
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it is not nostalgia for the object that causes anxiety but rather its imminence.
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety, now available for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that it is not nostalgia for the object that causes anxiety but rather its imminence.
In what was to be the last of his year-long seminars at Saint-Anne hospital, Lacan's 1962-63 lessons form the keystone to this classic phase of his teaching. Here we meet for the first time the notorious a in its oral, anal, scopic ... Read more
This important volume, which forms Book X of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, will be of great interest to students and practitioners of psychoanalysis and to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences, from literature and critical theory to sociology, psychology and gender studies.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Polity
Language
English
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745660417
SKU
V9780745660417
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About Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth-century's most influential thinkers. His many works include Écrits, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis and the many other volumes of The Seminar.
Reviews for Anxiety
"Despite the extraordinary range and reach of his work, anxiety is really Lacan's subject. In this book - which is among the most remarkable psychoanalytic and philosophical works of our time - Lacan shows us how much more there may be to say about this fundamental experience that paralyses speech and so immobilises people's lives." —Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and ... Read more