The senseless Real: Introduction to the Thought of Jacques-Alain Miller

by Nicolas Floury

This book summarizes the essence of Jacques-Alain Miller's thinking. This thinking takes flight in philosophy and culminates in the development of a new clinical practice and new psychoanalytic concepts. It shifts psychoanalysis from the realm of meaning to the senseless and lawless order of the real. This means taking seriously the paradigm shift proposed by Lacan in his very last teaching. Is Miller's “turn towards the real” tenable? What are the implications for psychoanalytic practice? How can we understand this as abandoning the shores of meaning? And above all, what politics can we deduce from such a renewed practice of psychoanalysis? These are the main questions that this book, the first devoted entirely to the work of Jacques-Alain Miller, sets out to address. Readers will discover a colorful way of thinking that seeks to respond to the growing impasses of civilization, as well as some clarifications on the controversies that surround and have surrounded Jacques-Alain Miller. They will also discover, as if between the lines, an elucidation of certain obscure points in Jacques Lacan's thought. Nicolas Floury is a clinical psychologist.

115 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 14, 2025