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Jacques Lacan
Martin Murray
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Description for Jacques Lacan
Paperback. A comprehensive, critical and contemporary introduction to Lacan and his work Series: Modern European Thinkers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
*Shortlisted for 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 ... Read more
*Shortlisted for 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Modern European Thinkers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745315904
SKU
V9780745315904
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About Martin Murray
Martin Murray is the Head of Creative Industries in the School of Computing and Digital Media. at London Metropolitan University. He is the author of Jacques Lacan: A Critical Introduction (Pluto, 2015).
Reviews for Jacques Lacan
'This book deserves a space on the shelves of even those who have already amassed a significant number of introductions to Lacanian thought ... Essential'
CHOICE 'With extraordinary intellectual generosity (and some humour), he forges a form of psychoanalytic sensibility that is vitalised, not exhausted, by the dazzle and difficulty of its subject'
Vicky Lebeau, Professor of English, ... Read more
CHOICE 'With extraordinary intellectual generosity (and some humour), he forges a form of psychoanalytic sensibility that is vitalised, not exhausted, by the dazzle and difficulty of its subject'
Vicky Lebeau, Professor of English, ... Read more