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A Psychoanalyst on the Couch
(July 2012)
Juan-David Nasio - Author
Stephanie Grace Schull - Translator
François Raffoul - Edited and with a preface by
David Pettigrew - Edited and with a preface by
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An interview with Juan-David Nasio.
In A Psychoanalyst on the Couch, we find the noted psychoanalyst and Lacan commentator Juan-David Nasio on the analyst’s couch himself. In the interview that makes up this book, he provides insight into his forty-year career as a writer and practitioner, elaborating on Freudian and Lacanian concepts important to his work and reflecting on broad issues related t...(Read More) |
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Oedipus
(October 2010)
The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis
Juan-David Nasio - Author
David Pettigrew - Translator
François Raffoul - Translator
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2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
First English translation of Nasio’s groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.
In this long-awaited book, Juan-David Nasio, one of France’s leading Lacanian psychoanalysts, argues that the Oedipus complex represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as the fundamental constitution of the human being. Defyin...(Read More) |
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French Interpretations of Heidegger
(October 2008)
An Exceptional Reception
David Pettigrew - Editor
François Raffoul - Editor
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A sustained philosophical engagement with significant and creative French interpreters of Heidegger.
French Interpretations of Heidegger undertakes a philosophical engagement with the work of the most significant and creative figures involved in the reception of Heidegger in France. The essays address those thinkers who have been influenced by Heidegger’s thought and have interpreted it in remarkable w...(Read More) |
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Rethinking Facticity
(May 2008)
François Raffoul - Editor
Eric S. Nelson - Editor
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Examines the historical context and contemporary relevance of facticity.
The concept of facticity has undergone crucial transformations over the last century in hermeneutics and phenomenology, but it has not yet received the attention that it warrants. Following a suggestion by Merleau-Ponty that philosophy is not about essences but rather the facticity of existence, prominent philosophers examine the significance ...(Read More) |
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The Creation of the World or Globalization
(March 2007)
Jean-Luc Nancy - Author
François Raffoul - Translation and introduction by
David Pettigrew - Translation and introduction by
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Philosophical reflections on the phenomenon of globalization.
Appearing in English for the first time, Jean-Luc Nancy’s 2002 book reflects on globalization and its impact on our being-in-the-world. Developing a contrast in the French language between two terms that are usually synonymous, or that are used interchangeably, namely globalisation (globalization) and mondialisation (world-formin...(Read More) |
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The Book of Love and Pain
(November 2003)
Thinking at the Limit with Freud and Lacan
Juan-David Nasio - Author
David Pettigrew - Translator
François Raffoul - Translator
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Addresses the limits in treating pain psychoanalytically, and offers a phenomenological description of psychic pain, particularly the pain of a lost loved one.
In The Book of Love and Pain, Juan-David Nasio offers the first exclusive treatment of psychic pain in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic literature. Using insights gained from more than three decades as a practicing psychoanalyst, Nasio addresses the ...(Read More) |
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Heidegger and Practical Philosophy
(March 2002)
François Raffoul - Editor
David Pettigrew - Editor
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Leading scholars address the ethical and practical dimensions of Heidegger's thought.
Heidegger has often been reproached for his alleged neglect of practical issues, specifically his "inability" to propose or articulate an ethics or politics. This book investigates the extent to which Heidegger's thought can be read as a crucial resource for practical philosophy and the articulation of an ethos for our time. Leading sch...(Read More) |
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Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan
(July 1998)
Juan-David Nasio - Author
David Pettigrew - Translator
François Raffoul - Translator
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In this first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work, Nasio eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most difficult or obscure moments.
Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan is the first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work. Juan-David Nasio ma...(Read More) |
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Disseminating Lacan
(April 1996)
David Pettigrew - Editor
François Raffoul - Editor
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Brings together parts of the Lacanian discourse that have remained isolated in their respective research areas and outlines the shape of Lacanian discourse, showing the relation of Lacan's thought to philosophy, science, literature and aesthetics, gender and sexuality, and psychoanalytic theory.
The distinguishing feature of Disseminating Lacan is its decidedly interdisciplinary approach. This book brings togethe...(Read More) |
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The Title of the Letter
(April 1992)
A Reading of Lacan
Jean-Luc Nancy - Author
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Author
François Raffoul - Translator
David Pettigrew - Translator
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"I advise you to read a book called The Title of the Letter. It is with the greatest satisfaction that I have read it. I could not encourage its distribution enough. I can say, in a way, if it is a question of reading, that I have never been read so well..." --Jacques Lacan
This book is a close reading of Jacques Lacan's seminal essay, "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud, " selected for t...(Read More) |
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