Random House New Releases - Psychology & Psychiatry - Psychoanalysis - Between June 18, 2012 and July 18, 2013.

Does the Woman Exist? by Marc du Ry

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

Does the Woman Exist? From Freud's Hysteric to Lacan's Feminine
Written by Paul Verhaeghe
Translated by Marc du Ry

This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined.

This lucid presentation of the dialectical process that carries Lacan through the evolution of Freud’s thought offers profound insights into the place of the “feminine mystique” in our social fabric. Patiently and carefully, Verhaeghe applies the Lacanian grid to Freud’s text and succeeds in explaining Lacan’s formulations without merely recapitulating his theories. The reader is informed, along the way, not only of Lacan’s take on Freudian ideas, but also of the array of interpretations emerging from other trends in post-Freudian literature, including feminist revisionism.

Beyond Gender by Paul Verhaeghe

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Beyond Gender From Suject to Drive
Written by Paul Verhaeghe

In this volume, Paul Verhaeghe's lectures on the development of psychoanalytic theory between Freud and Lacan are reproduced as a written work of astonishing versatility, which stands at the vanguard of Lacanian studies. Beyond Gender examines Freud's discovery of the unconscious, and Lacan's elaboration of this discovery as a gap in the subject between what (s)he knows and the real driving forces in the psyche. The implications of this gap are manifold, and their impact on areas of study and practice from gender theory to obsessional neurosis, trauma, hysteria, and dream interpretation are profound. It is Verhaeghe's contention that, far from being the bedrock of gender differentiation, castration masks another anxiety over another, original lack that is beyond gender. This book elaborates the relationship between body and psyche beyond the classic binary opposition. Beyond Gender postulates that the sexual relationship must be re-examined, as does the troublesome notion of gender identity.

Clinical Lacan by Joel Dor

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Clinical Lacan
Written by Joel Dor

About this Book...

This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the subjectówhich can be revealed only through the discourse of the patient in the psychoanalytic situation. This work brings life and practicality to a psychoanalytic movement that has been misperceived and divorced from the daily vicissitudes of analytic work.

The Fifty-Minute Hour by Jonathan Lear

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

The Fifty-Minute Hour
Written by Robert Lindner
Introduction by Jonathan Lear

“A fascinating mixture of traditional psychoanalytic thinking with clinical strategies that even today would be considered creative and controversial, The Fifty-Minute Hour has never failed to capture the imagination. . . . No student’s education in psychotherapy is complete without reading this book. Decades after its original publication, it still stands as a pioneering landmark in the history of psychotherapy.”-John Suler

Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis by Moustafa Safouan

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis
Written by Moustafa Safouan

In this delightfully readable and clearly written volume, the world renowned psychoanalyst Moustafa Safouan considers the works of Freud and Lacan. When Safouan met Lacan in 1949, he was all but ready to abandon the field due to the many contradictions and obscurities he found in Freud. Yet thanks to Lacan's early presentation of the father as real, imaginary, and symbolic, Safouan stayed on, working with Lacan until Lacan?s death in 1981. One can track the evolution of Safouan's teaching through his participation in Lacan's published seminars and his early contributions.

Safouan wrote this book in English, starting with a transcript from a series of lectures he delivered to the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in San Francisco, in March of 2001. Safouan clears up many of Lacan's own obscurities, although he is quick to point out that there are no contradictions in Lacan.

Readers will find the cause of desire, both through the signifier and through the 'normative' (rather than normal) development of the child. Safouan explains the three forms of lack, the root of subjectivity, the desire of the analyst, the Other as different from the other, the object cause of desire, transference, countertransference and lateral transference, and the analytic act in a narrative that brings these and other concepts together, in a 'dictionary' that could never be divided by terms.

History Beyond Trauma by Susan Fairfield

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

History Beyond Trauma
Written by Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere
Translated by Susan Fairfield

In the course of nearly thirty years of work with patients in psychiatric hospitals and private practice, Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere have uncovered the ways in which transference and countertransference are affected by the experience of social catastrophe. Handed down from one generation to the next, the unspoken horrors of war, betrayal, dissociation, and disaster in the families of patient and analyst alike are not only revived in the therapeutic relationship but, when understood, actually provide the keys to the healing process.

The authors present vivid examples of clinical work with severely traumatized patients, reaching inward to their own intimate family histories as shaped by the Second World War and outward toward an exceptionally broad range of cultural references to literature, philosophy, political theory, and anthropology. Using examples from medieval carnivals and Japanese No theater, to Wittgenstein and Hannah Arendt, to Sioux rituals in North Dakota, they reveal the ways in which psychological damage is done--and undone.

With a special focus on the relationship between psychoanalysis and the neurosciences, Davoine and Gaudilliere show how the patient-analyst relationship opens pathways of investigation into the nature of madness, whether on the scale of History--world wars, Vietnam--or on the scale of Story--the silencing of horror within an individual family.

In order to show how the therapeutic approach to trauma was developed on the basis of war psychiatry, the authors ground their clinical theory in the work of Thomas Salmon, an American doctor from the time of the First World War. In their case studies, they illustrate how three of the four Salmon principles--proximity, immediacy, and expectancy--affect the handling of the transference-countertransference relationship. The fourth principle, simplicity, shapes the style in which the authors address their readers--that is, with the same clarity and directness with which they speak to their patients.

How James Joyce Made his Name by Luke Thurston

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

How James Joyce Made his Name A Reading of the Final Lacan
Written by Roberto Harari
Translated by Luke Thurston

In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics.

Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions, with Joyce as our subject.

This new translation makes the intricacies of Lacan's seminar available to the English-speaking world for the first time. The author's accessible, vigorous prose explains the nuances of Lacanian theory with perfect clarity.

In the extraordinary encounter between Lacan and Joyce, Harari reveals unexpected affinities between them both as theorists and writers. It illustrates how literature is the aesthetic domain that is closest to the analytic experience.

Introduction to the Reading of Lacan by Joel Dor

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Introduction to the Reading of Lacan The Unconscious Structured Like a Language
Written by Joel Dor

About this Book...

"A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth."
-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School

Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety by Charles Shepherdson

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety An Introduction
Written by Roberto Harari
Foreword by Charles Shepherdson

Designed for novices as well as students of psychology and literary criticism, these systematic lectures do much to clarify Lacan's groundbreaking work on the birth of the subject and its links with Freud's theory of drives. Moreover, they answer some of the criticisms that have been leveled at Lacan by forms of psychoanalysis unable or unwilling to incorporate his ideas.

Against Adaptation by Philippe Van Haute

2012-12-04T00:30:00-05:00

Against Adaptation Lacan's Subversion of the Subject
Written by Philippe Van Haute

"Van Haute's exegesis of Lacan's essay is as lucid as it is cogent--an admirable (and very illuminating) achievement."
-William Richardson

Random House New Releases - Psychology & Psychiatry - Psychoanalysis - Between June 18, 2012 and July 18, 2013.

Does the Woman Exist? by Marc du Ry

Does the Woman Exist? From Freud's Hysteric to Lacan's FeminineWritten by Paul Verhaeghe Translated by Marc du Ry

Beyond Gender by Paul Verhaeghe

Beyond Gender From Suject to DriveWritten by Paul Verhaeghe

Clinical Lacan by Joel Dor

Clinical Lacan Written by Joel Dor

The Fifty-Minute Hour by Jonathan Lear

The Fifty-Minute Hour Written by Robert Lindner Introduction by Jonathan Lear

Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis by Moustafa Safouan

Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis Written by Moustafa Safouan

History Beyond Trauma by Susan Fairfield

History Beyond Trauma Written by Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere Translated by Susan Fairfield

How James Joyce Made his Name by Luke Thurston

How James Joyce Made his Name A Reading of the Final LacanWritten by Roberto Harari Translated by Luke Thurston

Introduction to the Reading of Lacan by Joel Dor

Introduction to the Reading of Lacan The Unconscious Structured Like a LanguageWritten by Joel Dor

Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety by Charles Shepherdson

Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety An IntroductionWritten by Roberto Harari Foreword by Charles Shepherdson

Against Adaptation by Philippe Van Haute

Against Adaptation Lacan's Subversion of the SubjectWritten by Philippe Van Haute

Does the Woman Exist? From Freud's Hysteric to Lacan's Feminine
Written by Paul Verhaeghe
Translated by Marc du Ry

Beyond Gender From Suject to Drive
Written by Paul Verhaeghe

Clinical Lacan
Written by Joel Dor

The Fifty-Minute Hour
Written by Robert Lindner
Introduction by Jonathan Lear

Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis
Written by Moustafa Safouan

History Beyond Trauma
Written by Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere
Translated by Susan Fairfield

How James Joyce Made his Name A Reading of the Final Lacan
Written by Roberto Harari
Translated by Luke Thurston

Introduction to the Reading of Lacan The Unconscious Structured Like a Language
Written by Joel Dor

Lacan's Seminar On Anxiety An Introduction
Written by Roberto Harari
Foreword by Charles Shepherdson

Against Adaptation Lacan's Subversion of the Subject
Written by Philippe Van Haute