Among the numerous introductions to Lacan published to date in
English, Philippe Julien's work is certainly outstanding. Beyond
its conceptual clarity the book constitutes an excellent guide to
Lacanian psychoanalytic practice.
--"Andr Patsalides, Psychoanalyst and President, Lacanian School of
Psychoanalysis"
From 1953 to 1980, Jacques Lacan sought to accomplish a return
to Freud beyond post- Freudianism. He defined this return as a new
convenant with the meaning to the Freudian discovery. Each year
through his teaching, he brought about this return. What was at
stake in this renewal?
Philippe Julien, who joined Lacan's Ecole Freudienne de Paris in
1968, attempts to answer this question. Situtated in the period
after-Lacan, Julien shows that Lacan's return to Freud was neither
a closing of the Freudian text by responding to questions left
unanswered nor a reopening of the text by giving endless new
interpretations. Neither dogmatic nor hermeneutic, Lacan's return
to Frued was the return of an inevitable discordance between our
experience of the unconscious and any attempt to give an account of
it. For the unconscious, by its very nature, disappears at the same
moment as it is discovered. It is in this sense that the author can
claim that Lacan's return to Freud will have been Freudian.
Constantly challenging the reader to submit to the rigors of
Lacan's sinuous thinking, this penetrating work goes far beyond
being a mere introduction. Rendered into elegant English by the
American translator, who added numerous footnotes and scholarly
references to the French original, this study brings Lacanian
scholarship among English readers to a new level of
sophistication.
Neither dogmatic nor hermeneutic, Lacan's return to Freud was
the return of an inevitable discordance between our experience of
the unconscious and any attempt to give an account of it. For the
unconscious, by its very nature, disappears at the same moment as
it is discovered. It is in this sense that the author can claim
that Lacan's return to Freud was Freudian.
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