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  • Reinventing the Symptom

    by Luke Thurston ...
    The essays collected in Re-inventing the Symptom explore the final period of Jacques Lacan’s teaching, focusing on his 1975-76 seminar Le sinthome.This book sheds light on the central questions of this last “phase” of Lacanian theory and unravels the principal enigmas of the seminars. The work as a whole breaks through previous obstacles to the act of reading Lacan’s last work, among them the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing

    by Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    What is at stake in Freud’s enduring preoccupation with a process supposedly diverting sexuality into cultural activity? In this study, a leading scholar of psychoanalysis and literature re-opens the old question of sublimation in a critical reading that explores one of the last remaining puzzles of Freudian thought. Using the rigorous framework provided by Jean Laplanche, Luke Thurston resituates ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Essays on Otherness

    by Jean Laplanche ...
    Translated by Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On Otherness presents for the first time in English many of Laplanche's key essays and is the first book to provide an overview of his thinking. It ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

    Edited by Scott Brewster, Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Handbooks
    The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • How James Joyce Made his Name

    A Reading of the Final Lacan

    by Roberto Harari ...
    Translated by Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Contemporary Theory
    In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics.Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions, with Joyce as our subject.This new ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

    The Haunting Interval

    by Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Death and Desire (RLE: Lacan)

    Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud

    by Richard Boothby ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Lacan
    The immensely influential work of Jacques Lacan challenges readers both for the difficulty of its style and for the wide range of intellectual references that frame its innovations. Lacan’s work is challenging too, for the way it recentres psychoanalysis on one of the most controversial points of Freud’s theory – the concept of a self-destructive drive or ‘death instinct’.Originally published in ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings

    Edited by Thomas Baldwin ...
    Merleau-Ponty was a pivotal figure in twentieth century French philosophy. He was responsible for bringing the phenomenological methods of the German philosophers - Husserl and Heidegger - to France and instigated a new wave of interest in this approach. His influence extended well beyond the boundaries of philosophy and can be seen in theories of politics, psychology, art and language.This is the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Structuralism and Semiotics

    by Terence Hawkes ...
    Series series New Accents
    Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since then a generation of readers has used the book as an entry not only into structuralism and semiotics, but into the wide range of cultural and critical theories underpinned by these approaches.It remains ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Derrida and Deconstruction

    Edited by Hugh J. Silverman ...
    Series series Continental Philosophy
    The effects of Derrida's writings have been widespread in literary circles, where they have transformed current work in literary theory. By contrast Derrida's philosophical writings--which deal with the whole range of western thought from Plato to Foucault--have not received adequate attention by philosophers. Organized around Derrida's readings of major figures in the history of philosophy, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Lacan

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Lionel Bailly ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Lacan without the jargon!From l'objet petit a to the mirror stage – the ultimate introduction to Lacan's canon'Well-written, carefully structured and broadly accessible.' Dany Nobus, Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Brunel University and author of Jaques LacanJacques Lacan was one of the most important psychoanalysts ever to have lived. Building upon the work of Sigmund Freud, he sought to ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Cartesian Linguistics

    A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science of mind, and even politics. This edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the ... Read more

    $39.39 USD