Seminar on The Purloined Letter

by Jacques Lacan

Genres: Psychoanalysis

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and doctor, who made prominent contributions to the psychoanalytic movement. His yearly seminars, conducted in Paris from 1953 until his death in 1981, were a major influence in the French intellectual milieu of the 1960s and 1970s, particularly among post-structuralist thinkers.

Lacan's ideas centered on Freudian concepts such as the unconscious, the castration complex, the ego, focusing on identifications, and the centrality of language to subjectivity. His work was interdisciplinary, drawing on linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, amongst others. Although a controversial and divisive figure, Lacan is widely read in critical theory, literary studies, and twentieth-century French philosophy, as well as in the living practice of clinical psychoanalysis.

Reviews

[Saran Baran · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gave this a higher star reading then I personally think it deserves because of the same reason with Hegel where the complication of the language unfortunately undermines the message author (Lacan here) provides. The whole symbolic, plus and minuses is so all over the place and the language is unnecessarily heafty. But I do like the essay I really like the message, or the implications of what does it might say about how we form relationships and generational trauma. On top of that, using this particular story in order to function the signifier analogy is GENIUS. I can understand why Zizek loves Lacan, there is so much to work here that’s in parallel to his style. So yeah, I can link people a YouTube video that helps you understand what’s going on

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[P · Rating 3 out of 5]

personne comprend rien, what the helly.
le grand Autre?