Jacques Marie Emile Lacan Knihy

Jacques Lacan představuje významnou etapu ve vývoji francouzské psychoanalýzy a má dodnes nemalý vliv zejména v románských zemích Evropy (Francie, Itálie) a v Latinské Americe. Pro seznámení českých čtenářů s Lacanovým pojetím psychoanalýzy byly zvoleny dvě práce zařazené do souboru vydaného pod názvem Écrits, které nyní otiskujeme dvoujazyčně spolu s jejich francouzským originálem: studie „Stadium zrcadla“ odpovídá Lacanově příspěvku na mezinárodním psychoanalytickém kongresu konaném v Curychu v roce 1949 a studie „Funkce a pole promluvy a řeči v psychoanalýze“ přednášce, s níž Lacan vystoupil na kongresu pořádaném v Římě tamní univerzitou roku 1953.

Exploring the intersection of psychoanalysis and contemporary society, this new translation of Jacques Lacan's work provides insightful analysis of Freud, Marx, and Hegel. It delves into social and sexual behavior patterns while examining the role of science and knowledge today. This accessible edition invites readers to engage with Lacan's profound ideas, making complex concepts more understandable for a modern audience.

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.

Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inescapable connection to the symbolic process through which signifier is joined with signified. Lacan deftly navigates the ontological levels of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real to explain psychosis as "foreclosure," or rejection of the primordial signifier. Then, bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical, Lacan discusses the implications for treatment. In these lectures on the psychoses, Lacan's renowned theory of metaphor and metonymy, along with the concept of the "quilting point," appears for the first time.

Often controversial, always inspired, French intellectual Jacques Lacan begins the twentieth year of his famous Seminar by weighing theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge from such influential and diverse thinkers as Aristotle, Marx, and Freud. From here he leads us through mathematics, philosophy, religion, and, naturally, psychoanalysis into an entirely new and unexpected way of interpreting the two most fundamental human drives. Anticipated by English-speaking readers for more than twenty years, this annotated translation presents Lacan's most sophisticated work on love, desire, and jouissance.