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TITLE: A COMPENDIUM OF
LACANIAN TERMS
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TITLE: A COMPENDIUM OF
LACANIAN TERMS
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| DESCRIPTION: Jacques Lacan (1901-81)
was one of the most original and controversial thinkers of the post-war
period. His ideas had a profound effect on the intellectual movements
of his time and his work is of continuing importance to a wide range of
disciplines: psychoanalytic theory and practice, literary criticism, critical
social theory, linguistics, cinema, art criticism and political science.
Lacan's ideas can, however, be notoriously difficult: convoluted, idiosyncratic,
arcane, and almost always obscure! A Compendium of Lacanian Terms aims
to provide students of Lacan with a clear and helpful exposition on some
40 key terms. Each entry outlines the conceptualisation of the idea, locating
it within Lacanian discourse, and the evolution of the term within the
development of Lacan's ideas. A list of references is provided at the
end of each entry.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Zita Marks is a psychologist at the Australian Catholic University. She is a member of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis and of the Lacan Circle of Melbourne. Sara Murphy is a clinical psycholologist at Victoria University and works also as a psychoanalytic consultant. Huguette Glowinski is a clinical psychologist at Deakin University, Melbourne. She is a member of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis.
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