A major and long overdue addition to the American/English psychoanalytic literature . . . written specifically for clinicians, by a clinician . . . All major conceptsamong them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subjectare developed and discussed in depth. Nicholas Kouretas, Harvard Medical School

This companion text to "Introduction the Reading of Lacan" focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsowhich can be phenomenologically graspedoand the actual psychic structure of the subjectowhich can be revealed only through the discourse of the patient in the psychoanalytic situation. This work brings life and practicality to a psychoanalytic movement that has been misperceived and divorced from the daily vicissitudes of analytic work.

This is a guide to Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. It elucidates the concept of psychic structure that distinguishes neurosis, psychosis, and the perversions, that is so seminal in Lacan's theory. The writer includes clinical examples that demonstrate the crucial difference between symptoms.