The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series
About the Book Series
Psychoanalytic clinical and theoretical work is always embedded in specific linguistic and cultural contexts and carries their traces, traces which this series attends to in its focus on multiple contradictory and antagonistic ‘lines of the Symbolic’. This series takes its cue from Lacan’s psychoanalytic work on three registers of human experience, the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real, and employs this distinctive understanding of cultural, communication and embodiment to link with other traditions of cultural, clinical and theoretical practice beyond the Lacanian symbolic universe. Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis provides a reflexive reworking of theoretical and practical issues, translating psychoanalytic writing from different contexts, grounding that work in the specific histories and politics that provide the conditions of possibility for its descriptions and interventions to function. The series makes connections between different cultural and disciplinary sites in which psychoanalysis operates, questioning the idea that there could be one single correct reading and application of Lacan. Its authors trace their own path, their own line through the Symbolic, situating psychoanalysis in relation to debates which intersect with Lacanian work, explicating it, extending it and challenging it.
Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis: Politicizing the Unconscious from the Core of a Crumbling Empire
1st Edition
By Robert K. Beshara
August 26, 2026
In Writings for a Liberation Psychoanalysis, Robert K. Beshara establishes a groundbreaking framework that links the Freudo-Lacanian tradition directly to transmodernity and decoloniality. Traditional psychoanalytic institutions have long been tethered to colonial logic, often pathologizing the ...
Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives through Beckett and Artaud: The Trauma of the Body
1st Edition
By Sarah Meehan O'Callaghan
August 04, 2026
This book provides an epistemology of the body as it relates to subjectivity through an analysis of selected works of Antonin Artaud and Samuel Beckett. Presented in three parts, the book explores a fundamental premise: that there is a traumatic and alienating dimension to embodiment that resists ...
Queer Psychoanalysis: Minor Clinic and Deconstruction of Gender
1st Edition
By Fabrice Bourlez
April 15, 2026
Queer Psychoanalysis offers a detailed study of the tensions and contiguities between the field of queer theory and that of Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology. Drawing on a detailed reading of the critiques that have been levelled against psychoanalysis by queer theorists, this book makes use of, and...
A Contemporary Return to the Lacanian Mirror: You Are That
1st Edition
By Sergio J. Aguilar Alcalá
March 23, 2026
A Contemporary Return to the Lacanian Mirror is a discussion on The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience, a capital text within Lacanian thought and psychoanalytic history. Drawing on Freudian and Lacanian concepts, Sergio J. Aguilar Alcalá explores ...
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
1st Edition
By Chris Vanderwees
October 28, 2025
On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis presents conversations with clinicians about their research interests, and their experiences in relation to psychoanalytic practice, focusing particularly on clinical and theoretical issues surrounding Lacanianism. This book is the result of ...
Lacan on Society: A Radical Archeology of the Social Bond
1st Edition
By Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar
August 13, 2025
Lacan on Society is an exhaustive archeological and contingent review of Lacan’s approaches to society throughout his work, seminars, and écrits. Through a systematic and chronological analysis of Lacan’s work, Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar highlights critical, structural, and divergent surfaces as ...
Understanding Lacan's Objet a
1st Edition
By Juan Pablo Lucchelli
August 01, 2025
Understanding Lacan’s Objet a proposes that we modify the accepted approach to Lacan’s ideas and strive to make Lacanian concepts accessible. Juan Pablo Lucchelli gradually introduces conceptual tools, following the emergence of this ‘object of objects’ step by step. The book makes clear the impact...
Taking Back Desire: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Queerness and Neoliberalism on Screen
1st Edition
By James Lawrence Slattery
May 13, 2025
Taking Back Desire studies film, television and video art texts through a Lacanian prism to restore a sense of queer as troubling identity and resistance to neoliberal forms of inclusion. James Lawrence Slattery illuminates how the framing of desire, identity, enjoyment, resistance and knowledge ...
Decolonization and Psychoanalysis: The Underside of Signification
1st Edition
By Ahmad Fuad Rahmat
April 17, 2025
Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges conventional psychoanalytic assumptions by revisiting Lacan’s conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens. Ahmad Fuad Rahmat explores how Lacan’s ideas about the symbolic order and its historical development are intertwined ...
Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics: From Norm to Desire
1st Edition
By Luiz Valle Junior
March 21, 2025
Queer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics is a consideration of the relationship between LGBTQIA+ politics, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory. The book argues, through readings of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and Lee Edelman’s No Future, that core queer categories – ...
Lacan and Capitalist Discourse: Neoliberalism and Ideology
1st Edition
By Jorge Alemán
January 30, 2025
Lacan and Capitalist Discourse explores the political and theoretical connections between the Covid-19 Pandemic and Capitalism, unravelling the direct consequences of Lacan's thesis of so-called "Capitalist Discourse”. Jorge Alemán provides an account of neoliberalism, its mechanisms to produce ...
The Origin of the Subject in Psychoanalysis: Rethinking the Foundations of Lacanian Theory and Clinic
1st Edition
By Alfredo Eidelsztein
December 31, 2024
This highly original work uses the Big Bang theory as a conceptual tool to address the question of the origin of the subject in psychoanalysis. The Origin of the Subject in Psychoanalysis elucidates the radical discontinuity between Freud and Lacan in the foundations of their psychoanalytic ...