The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library (CFAR)
About the Book Series
The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) was founded in 1985 with the aim of developing Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis in the UK. Lacan's rereading and rethinking of Freud had been neglected in the Anglophone world, despite its important implications for the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. The CFAR Library aims to make classic Lacanian texts available in English for the first time, as well as publishing original research in the Lacanian field.
Lacanian Perspectives on Jealousy
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmen Wright
September 30, 2025
A great effort has been made in contemporary Western culture to move beyond jealousy in our private lives - we have renegotiated old prohibitions, reorganising our sex lives, relationships, and family structures in new and inventive ways. But have we really been so successful at bearing the ...
How Does Analysis Work?: Examples of Lacanian Interpretation
1st Edition
Edited
By Berjanet Jazani
December 10, 2024
How Does Analysis Work? uses short, compelling vignettes from people in Lacanian analysis to explore how analytic interpretation works. Insights, revelations, connections, meanings and non-meanings all feature in these anonymous accounts of crucial moments in analysis, providing a sense of what it ...
What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love?: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy
1st Edition
By Gérard Pommier
October 25, 2024
What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often unrecognised psychic bisexuality. Everyone chooses a gender by repressing another gender, which becomes the site of both an attraction and a conflict, a 'war of the sexes', the ...
What Can We Know About Sex?: A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender
1st Edition
By Gisèle Chaboudez
October 21, 2022
Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud’s discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious, analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan’s work allows us ...
Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Dany Nobus
April 28, 2022
The highly arcane "wisdom" produced by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan is either endlessly regurgitated and recited as holy writ by his numerous acolytes, or radically dismissed as unpalatable nonsense by his equally countless detractors. Contrary to these common, strictly antagonistic yet ...
Treating Autism Today: Lacanian Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Tarsia, Kristina Valendinova
November 19, 2021
Drawing together an international range of psychoanalytic practitioners, this collection provides a critique of mainstream models of autism, looking at the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of the behavioural and cognitive approaches popular today. The first book to provide a psychoanalytic ...
The Baby and the Drive: Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants
1st Edition
By Marie Couvert
April 05, 2021
The Baby and the Drive presents a new reading of psychoanalytic drive theory, as well as offering clinical tools for early identification of difficulties and intervention with babies and their parents. This volume demonstrates that the concept of the drive is the crucial factor in early life. The ...
Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture
1st Edition
By Berjanet Jazani
November 30, 2020
This accessible and insightful book merges Lacanian theory, psychoanalytic case studies, and the author’s personal experiences to illuminate the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis in mapping contemporary subjectivity. Using examples from cinema, artificial intelligence, and clinical and cultural ...
Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom
1st Edition
By Pierre Bruno
August 27, 2019
Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan’s reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers. Unlike previous books, Bruno provides a detailed history of Lacan’s reading of Marx and surveys his references to Marx in ...
The Law of the Mother: An Essay on the Sexual Sinthome
1st Edition
By Geneviève Morel
November 26, 2018
The law of the mother is made up of words charged with pleasure and suffering that leave their mark on us in early childhood. In this groundbreaking book, Geneviève Morel explores whether it is possible for the child to escape subjection from this maternal law and develop their own sexual identity....
Lacan Reading Joyce
1st Edition
By Colette Soler
October 15, 2018
This book discusses Jacques Lacan’s contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler’s influential reading to English readers for the first time. Focusing on Lacan’s famous Seminar on Joyce, the reader will no doubt learn much from Lacan, but also, as Soler ...
Obsessional Neurosis: Lacanian Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Astrid Gessert
May 02, 2018
Despite the important place it occupies in both Freudian and Lacanian nosology, obsessional neurosis has received far less attention than its erstwhile companion hysteria. This book elaborates and deepen research into questions of obsession, going beyond the usual clichés which reduce obsession to ...