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'\'Lacan dedicates this seventh year of his famous seminar to the problematic role of ethics in psychoanalysis. Delving into the psychoanalyst\\\'s inevitable involvement with ethical questions and \\\"the attraction of transgression,\\\" Lacan illuminates Freud\\\'s psychoanalytic work and its continued influence. Lacan explores the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy (a reading of Sophocle\\\'s Antigone), and the tragic dimension of analytic experience. His exploration leads us to startling insights on \\\"the consequence of man\\\'s relationship to desire\\\" and the conflicting judgments of ethics and analysis.
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" have a special place because of their value as an introduction to Lacan. . . . [They] are a sure path of entry into Lacan's critique of ego psychology. . . . Lacan's work underscores that part of Freud's message that is most revlutionary for our time. The individual is 'decentered'. There is no autonomous self. What sex was to the Victorians, the question of free will is to our new Fin-de-Siecle." Sherry Turkle
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"A rare opportunity to experience Lacan as a teacher. . . . The publication of these two early seminars . . . may allow Lacan's work to do what it does most remarkably: she light on, and expend, the theoretical implications of psychoanalysis, but also to train a new generation of psychoanalysts by asking again: what exactly do we do when we do psychoanalysis?" London Review of Books
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This new translation of Jacques Lacan's deliberation on psychoanalysis and contemporary social order offers welcome, readable access to the brilliant author's seminal thinking on Freud, Marx, and Hegel; patterns of social and sexual behavior; and the nature and function of science and knowledge in the contemporary world.
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'\'Sometimes controversial, invariably fascinating, Lacan\\\'s psycholinguistic approach to analysis of the psychoses is seen here in virtually unmediated form.\\n
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'\'\\\'One of the most influential French intellectuals of this century, Lacan is seen here at the height of his powers.\\\\n
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A startling psycholinguistic exploration of the boundaries of love and knowledge.
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A complete translation of the seminar that Jacques Lacan gave in the course of a year's teaching within the training programme of the Société Française de Psychanalyse.
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'Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan\'s work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment.\n
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The French text was prepared by Jacques-Alain Miller in consultation with Jacques Lacan, from the transcriptions of the seminar.
About the Author
The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. His many published works include Ecrits and The Seminars.Jacques-Alain Miller is Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII and editor of Lacan's Seminars.