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.
Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse: Movements in Harmolodic Space
1st Edition
By A. L. James
November 29, 2024
Ornette Coleman, Psychoanalysis, Discourse develops tools from psychoanalysis for the analysis of Ornette Coleman's discourse. In this psychoanalytic, philosophical and musical meditation on what it means to follow, A. L. James presents an approach to the analysis of discourse that is a kind of ...
A Social Ontology of Psychosis: Genea-logical Treatise on Lacan’s Conception of Psychosis
1st Edition
By Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes
October 02, 2024
In A Social Ontology of Psychosis, Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes explores how to interpret and apply the concept of the signifier of the Name-of-the-Father in Lacanian theory, particularly in the context of working with psychosis. Londoño proposes a logical framework drawing on the work of Badiou, ...
Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Dan Collins, Eve Watson
June 28, 2024
This thorough text provides a complete overview of the drive in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Divided into four key areas, the book considers clinical, theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects of the drive, with editorial headnotes throughout. The introduction to the collection provides a ...
Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Alireza Taheri, Chris Vanderwees, Reza Naderi
May 16, 2024
Philosophy After Lacan: Politics, Science, and Art brings together reflections on contemporary philosophy inspired by and in dialogue with Lacanian theory. Rather than focus on the thinkers who came before Lacan, the editors maintain attention on innovations in contemporary philosophy that owe ...
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan
1st Edition
By Chris Vanderwees
October 20, 2023
On the History and Transmission of Lacanian Psychoanalysis addresses key questions about the history and transmission of Jacques Lacan’s work in North America through discussions with experienced psychoanalysts (who are also trained psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychotherapists). Chris ...
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity: Sade Reloaded
1st Edition
By Ricardo Espinoza Lolas
September 29, 2023
Psychoanalysis for Intersectional Humanity considers both the vast realm of sexual diversities emerging under capitalism and outlines what a psychoanalytic clinic that considers these diversities should be like. Ricardo Espinoza Lolas explores these themes hand in hand with the Marquis de Sade, ...
A Lacanian Conception of Populism: Society Does Not Exist
1st Edition
By Timothy Appleton
September 01, 2023
A Lacanian Conception of Populism takes issue with traditional theories of populism, which seek to equate populism with hegemony, arguing that these are not only different but even incompatible logics. Timothy Appleton contends that one of the main differences between populism and hegemony has to ...
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen: The Year the Cinemas Closed
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Owens, Sarah Meehan O'Callaghan
August 11, 2023
Psychoanalysis and the Small Screen examines the impact of cinema closures and the shift to small-screen consumption on our aesthetic and subjective desires during the COVID-19 pandemic from a Lacanian perspective. The chapters in this text hold a unique focus on the intersections of film, ...
Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids
1st Edition
By Pablo Lerner
August 02, 2023
In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and jouissance. Arguing for the existence of a primordial real void outside and independent of language,...
Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class
1st Edition
By Daniel Bristow
May 31, 2023
Schizostructuralism draws together insights from psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxist theory, and the divisions and antagonisms that both underpin and distinguish them, to form a new psychoanalytic system. Working through the key concepts and methods in these fields, Daniel Bristow describes ...
Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy's Other Scenes
1st Edition
By Daniel Adleman, Chris Vanderwees
December 30, 2022
Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric: Freud, Burke, Lacan, and Philosophy's Other Scenes is an innovative work that places the fields of psychoanalysis and rhetoric in dynamic resonance with one another. The book operates according to a compelling interdisciplinary conceit: Adleman provocatively ...
Lacanian Fantasy: The Image, Language and Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Kirk Turner
August 02, 2022
Lacanian Fantasy addresses the question of how fantasy developed as a psychological concept, particularly as influenced by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Kirk Turner moves thematically, from childhood to adulthood, and chronologically, from Freud’s earliest theories to Lacan’s most complex ...