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In this first English translation of a classic text by one of the
foremost commentators on Lacan's work, Nasio eloquently
demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory,
even in its most difficult or obscure moments.
Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan is
the first English translation of a classic text by one of the
foremost commentators on Lacan's work. Juan-David Nasio makes
numerous theoretical advances and eloquently demonstrates the
clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory, even in its most
difficult or obscure moments. What is distinctive, in the end,
about Nasio's treatment of Lacan's theory is the extent to which
Lacan's fundamental concepts -- the unconscious, jouissance, and
the body -- become the locus of the overturning or exceeding of the
discrete boundaries of the individual. The recognition of the of
the implications of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, then, brings the
analyst to adopt what Nasio calls a "special listening".
Few diagnostic categories are as controversial in psychoanalysis as
hysteria. Widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices
against women, hysteria has virtually disappeared from our
theoretical literature, diagnostic manuals, and training programs.
However, far from being gender-bound, this book shows that hysteria
for Jacques Lacan represents a psychic strategy that bears on one
of the most fundamental preoccupations of existence: What does it
mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man?
Translation of a French text published in 1992 by +ditions Rivages.
Nasio (psychology, U. of Paris VII) demonstrates the clinical and
practical import of Lacan's theory. Topics include the linguistic
structure of the unconscious, the unconscious as the displacement
of the signifier between the patie
In "The Book of Love and Pain, Juan-David Nasio offers the first
exclusive treatment of psychic pain in Freudian and Lacanian
psychoanalytic literature. Using insights gained from more than
three decades as a practicing psychoanalyst, Nasio addresses the
limits faced by the analyst in attempting to think and treat pain
psychoanalytically. He suggests that while pain is about separation
and loss, "psychic pain is intensified by paradoxical
overinvestment in the lost loved one. Included are discussions of
the pain of mourning, the pain of "jouissonce, unconscious pain,
pain as an object of the drive, pain as a form of sexuality pain
and the scream, and the pain of silence. In offering a
phenomenological description of psychic pain, The Book of Love and
Pain fills a gaping void in psychoanalytic research and will play
an important role in our understanding of the human psyche.
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