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Elisabeth Roudinesco - Jacques Lacan: An Outline of a Life and History of a System of Thought - 9780745623146 - V9780745623146
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Jacques Lacan: An Outline of a Life and History of a System of Thought

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Description for Jacques Lacan: An Outline of a Life and History of a System of Thought Paperback. Roudinesco follows the development of Lacana s career from his early clinical practice and conflicts with the establishment, as he constantly pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis from its roots in biology and neurology to a powerful critical tool that resonated in fields ranging from literary theory to feminist politics. Num Pages: 596 pages, 0. BIC Classification: BG; JMAF; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 894.
Roudinesco follows the development of Lacan's career from his early clinical practice and conflicts with the establishment, as he constantly pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis from its roots in biology and neurology to a powerful critical tool that resonated in fields ranging from literary theory to feminist politics.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
596
Condition
New
Number of Pages
596
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745623146
SKU
V9780745623146
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Elisabeth Roudinesco
Elisabeth Roudinesco teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of many books, including Jacques Lacan & Co.: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985 and Madness and Revolution: The Lives and Legends of Theroigne de Mericourt.

Reviews for Jacques Lacan: An Outline of a Life and History of a System of Thought
'This [is an] extraordinary book about the most flamboyant French neo-Freudian of the 20th century...' The Times 'She acknowledges Lacan's personal absurdity and literary extravagance while simultaneously showing why and how he matters. Ms. Roudinesco captures the freshness of the intellectual world in which Lacan's developing notions were concocted ... Ms Roudinesco's biography, solidly translated by Barbara Bray, ... Read more

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