Lacanian Psychoanalysis Revolutions in Subjectivity [Paperback]

Jacques Lacan's impact upon the theory and practice of psychoanalysis worldwide cannot be underestimated. Lacanian Psychoanalysislooks at the current debates surrounding Lacanian practice and explores its place within historical, social and political contexts.

The book argues that Lacans elaboration of psychoanalytic theory is grounded in clinical practice and needs to be defined in relation to the four main traditions: psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy and spirituality.

As such topics of discussion include:

• the intersection between psychoanalysis and social transformation
• a new way through deadlocks of current Lacanian debate
• a new approach to clinical structures of neurosis, perversion and psychosis

Lacanian Psychoanalysisdraws on Lacan's work to shed light on issues relevant to current therapeutic practice and as such it will be of great interest to students, trainees and practitioners of psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling and other domains of personal and social change.

Introduction. Framing Analysis. Psychiatrising Speech. Psychoanalytic Psychology. Distributed Selves. Psychotherapeutic Capital. Reflexive Recuperation. Mapping Lack in the Spirit. A Clinic in the Real. References.

Ian Parker has given us an elegant marriage of revolutionary discourses: Lacan, of subjectivity; Marx, of society and the human condition. Neither side absorbs the other, and the psychoanalytic project is advanced without lapsing into conformism. - Joel Kovel, formerly Distinguished Professor of Social Studies at Bard College, New York, USA

Here is a very interesting book that studies in a rigorous way, and with social psychological methods, the clinical practice of Lacanian psychoanalysts. An original approach to the questionlÓî