Customer Review: If you live on the west coast of Australia, you won't need this book. (Although you'd learn why). Most other places this book is a MUST read for planning out and getting better sessions. I'm 40ish and just really starting to figure out where and when to score great waves. Don't waste your life... more info
Customer Review: Seminar XVII is one of the most important of Lacan's seminars. This famous seminar takes place during the 60s student movements, and it is where Lacan gives his famous rebuttal: "All of you revolutionaries want another master, and you will get one!" This is also the place where Lacan elaborates his... more info
Customer Review: not just psychosis, but also delusion and paranoia. lacan's starting point is freud's case study of daniel paul schreber, and the text freud used, schreber's memoirs of my nervous illness, a book written by judge schreber 'during the last months of his confinement....an extremely trustworthy and... more info
Customer Review: In this book, Russell Grigg, who has rendered exemplary translations of Seminar III and XVII, collects eleven wonderfully written essays. Grigg is not only a translator of Lacan's, he is also a practising analyst and a trained philosopher. That background gives his texts a clearity and exactness... more info