NMC Library
Image from Google Jackets

Jacques Lacan : a critical introduction / Martin Murray

By: Series: Modern European thinkersPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2016Description: 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780745315904
  • 0745315909
  • 9780745315959
  • 074531595X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 150.195092 23
LOC classification:
  • BF109.L28 M87 2016
Contents:
Stopping and starting -- Sweet and sour -- Sense and nonsense -- Man and window -- I and I -- Fight and flight -- Word and wish -- Ending and beginning
Summary: "The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan have had a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and were conveyed in a dense and abstract form. Lacan's detractors have accused him of obscurantism, pretentiousness and even incoherence. His psychoanalytic practice and his personal life were complicated too. He was famous and contentious in equal measure. Martin Murray provides a lucid account of Lacan's key concepts, tracing their origins in his diverse interests: art, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and (of course) psychoanalysis. Murray also investigates Lacan's professional life, personal life and institutional influence in an attempt to understand the charismatic and controversial person he became. The investigation uncovers a uniquely 'split' and contradictory figure whose life and work is both fascinating and erratic. The book offers a critical, biographical and historical introduction to Lacan that encourages a critical appreciation of his life and his thought."--Page 4 of cover
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks BF109 .L28 M87 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001391381

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index

Stopping and starting -- Sweet and sour -- Sense and nonsense -- Man and window -- I and I -- Fight and flight -- Word and wish -- Ending and beginning

"The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan have had a major influence on twentieth- and twenty-first century thought. His 'followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and were conveyed in a dense and abstract form. Lacan's detractors have accused him of obscurantism, pretentiousness and even incoherence. His psychoanalytic practice and his personal life were complicated too. He was famous and contentious in equal measure. Martin Murray provides a lucid account of Lacan's key concepts, tracing their origins in his diverse interests: art, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and (of course) psychoanalysis. Murray also investigates Lacan's professional life, personal life and institutional influence in an attempt to understand the charismatic and controversial person he became. The investigation uncovers a uniquely 'split' and contradictory figure whose life and work is both fascinating and erratic. The book offers a critical, biographical and historical introduction to Lacan that encourages a critical appreciation of his life and his thought."--Page 4 of cover

Powered by Koha