The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
The Cambridge Companion to Lacan

Author: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-07-31

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1139826662

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's often difficult and idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. This volume will bring fresh, accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. These essays, supported by a useful chronology and guide to further reading will prove invaluable to students and teachers alike.

Shattering Hamlet's Mirror
Shattering Hamlet's Mirror

Author: Marvin Carlson

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2016-05-12

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 0472119850

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Exploring the historical antecedents and mimetic dimensions of "Theater of the Real"

Introducing Lacan
Introducing Lacan

Author: Darian Leader

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1848318790

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Jacques Lacan is now regarded as a major psychoanalytical theorist alongside Freud and Jung, although recognition has been delayed by fierce arguments over his ideas. Written by a leading Lacanian analyst, "Introducing Lacan" guides the reader through his innovations, including his work on paranoia, his addition of structural linguistics to Freudianism and his ideas on the infant 'mirror phase'. It also traces Lacan's influence in postmodern critical thinking on art, literature, philosophy and feminism. This is the ideal introduction for anyone intrigued by Lacan's ideas but discouraged by the complexity of his writings.

Fires in the Mirror
Fires in the Mirror

Author: Anna Deavere Smith

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2015-01-21

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1101911298

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Derived from interviews with a wide range of people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots, Fires In The Mirror is as distinguished a work of commentary on black-white tensions as it is a work of drama. In August 1991 simmering tensions in the racially polarized Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood of Crown Heights exploded into riots after a black boy was killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade and a Jewish student was slain by blacks in retaliation. Fires in the Mirror is dramatist Anna Deavere Smith's stunning exploration of the events and emotions leading up to and following the Crown Heights conflict. Through her portrayals of more than two dozen Crown eights adversaries, victims, and eyewitnesses, using verbatim excerpts from their observations derived from interviews she conducted, Smith provides a brilliant, Rashoman-like documentary portrait of contemporary ethnic turmoil.

The Mirror and the Light
The Mirror and the Light

Author: Hilary Mantel

Publisher: Fourth Estate

Published: 2021-10-28

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780008519506

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles' exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021's must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.

Obsidian Mirror
Obsidian Mirror

Author: Catherine Fisher

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-04-23

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1101603135

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it. Or this is what will happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter its power; the second will protect the mirror at all costs, obsessed with its power; and the third needs the mirror to find a murdered father and save his life. But only one can succeed. The mirror can send you to the past, but it will not bring you back. With superb world-building that includes the real world, the faery world, and a dystopic future, this hauntingly astonishing adventure is the start of a new trilogy from the master of the sci-fi/fantasy genre, Catherine Fisher. Fans of Orson Scott Card, Dr. Who, Shakespeare, and Blade Runner won't be disappointed.

Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Author: Dany Nobus

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-28

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0429915403

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this classic work, eight crucial Lacanian ideas are explained through detailed exploration of the theoretical and/or practical context in which Lacan introduced them, the way in which they developed throughout his works, and the questions they were designed to answer. The book does not presuppose any familiarity with Lacanian theory on the part of the reader, nor a prior acquaintance with Lacan's Ecrits or seminars. Originally published in 1998, the ideas within are more relevant than ever and this newly reissued volume will prove invaluable to today's scholars of Lacanian thought.

The Autistic Subject
The Autistic Subject

Author: Leon S. Brenner

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-21

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3030507157

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Brenner describes autism as a singular mode of being that is fundamentally linked to one’s identity and basic practices of existence, offering a rigorous alternative to treating autism as a mental or physical disorder. Drawing on Freud and Lacan’s psychoanalytic understanding of the subject, Brenner outlines the unique features of the autistic subjective structure and provides a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary work on the psychoanalysis of autism. The book examines research by theorists including Jean-Claude Maleval, Éric Laurent, Rosine and Robert Lefort that has been largely unavailable to Anglophone audiences until now. In this book autism is posited to be a singular subjective structure not reducible to neurosis or psychosis. In accordance with the Lacanian approach, autism is examined with detailed attention to the subject’s use of language, culminating in Brenner’s “autistic linguistic spectrum.” A compelling read for students and scholars of psychoanalysis and autism researchers and clinicians.

The Music and the Mirror
The Music and the Mirror

Author: LOLA. KEELEY

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-04

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9783963240140

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Anna is the member of an elite ballet company. She must face down jealousy, sabotage and injury, not to mention navigate the circus of friends and lovers within the company. Anna discovers that she and the daring, beautiful Victoria have a lot more than a talent for ballet in common, and that not every thrilling dance can be found on stage.

Mirrors in the Brain
Mirrors in the Brain

Author: Giacomo Rizzolatti

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 019921798X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When we witness a great actor, musician, or sportsperson performing, we share something of their experience. It become clear just how this sharing of experience is realised within the human brain. This text provides an accessible overview of mirror neurons, written by the man who first discovered them.