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.
The Marks of a Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
By Luis Izcovich
June 30, 2017
Is someone radically different after an analysis? Since Freud, psychoanalysis has been questioned about what the psychoanalytic experience can change in someone's life beyond shedding light on symptoms. Drawing on literature, philosophy and a range of psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, the...
Hysteria Today
1st Edition
By Anouchka Grose
January 13, 2016
Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something to say about 'feminine complaints'. Over the centuries, theorisations of the root causes have lurched...
Premature Birth: The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst
1st Edition
By Catherine Vanier
February 06, 2015
If advances in medical technology now allow babies to be born earlier and survive premature birth, what of the psychical impact of this emergence into the world? What consequences can premature birth have for babies, for their families, and for the medical staff around them? In this exciting and ...
Introductory Lectures on Lacan
1st Edition
By Astrid Gessert
September 15, 2014
Lacan developed his theory and practice of psychoanalysis on the basis of Freud's original work. In his "return to Freud" he not only elaborated and revised some of Freud's innovative ideas, but turned to important questions and problems in Freud's theory that had remained obscure and unresolved, ...
Lacan - The Unconscious Reinvented: The Unconscious Reinvented
1st Edition
By Colette Soler
May 07, 2014
This book focuses on Lacan's revisions and renewals of psychoanalytic concepts, and shows the ways in which Lacan succeeded in the reinvention of psychoanalysis. It explores those steps that led him to assert an unprecedented formula that says against all expectation that the unconscious is real....
Freud and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst
1st Edition
By Serge Cottet
December 31, 2012
Freud's invention of psychoanalysis was based on his own desire to know something about the unconscious, but what have been the effects of this original desire on psychoanalysis ever since? How has Freud's desire created symptoms in the history of psychoanalysis? Has it helped or hindered its ...
Sexual Ambiguities
1st Edition
By Genevieve Morel
December 31, 2011
How does one become a man or a woman? Psychoanalysis shows that this is never an easy task and that each of us tackles it in our own, unique way. In this important and original study, the author focuses on what analytic work with psychotic subjects can teach us about the different solutions human ...
Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)
1st Edition
By Markos Zafiropoulos
December 31, 2010
Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, the author shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful...
The Trainings of the Psychoanalyst
1st Edition
By Annie Tardits
December 31, 2010
If psychoanalysis, for freud, was an impossible profession, what consequences would this have for psychoanalytic training? and if one’s own personal analysis lay at the heart of psychoanalytic training, how could what one had learnt from this be transmitted, let alone taught? In this groundbreaking...