The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

Jacques Lacan: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinkers)

Jacques Lacan: A Critical Introduction (Modern European Thinkers)

by Martin Murray (Author)

  • New

    Hardcover 2015

    $105.94
Synopsis

The wide-ranging and brilliant ideas of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) have had a major influence on modern thought. His `followers' are loyal and legion. Yet his ideas are complex and densely conveyed. Lacan's detractors have accused him of obscurantism, pretentiousness and even incoherence, his psychoanalytic practice and his personal life were complicated - he was famous and contentious in equal measure.

Martin Murray provides a lucid account of Lacan's key concepts, including the mirror stage, and his relationship to Freud's ideas, amongst many others. Tracing their origins in his diverse interests: art, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and psychoanalysis. Murray also investigates Lacan's professional life, personal life and institutional influence in an attempt to understand the charismatic and controversial person he became.

$105.94

Quantity

20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 20 Dec 2015
ISBN 10: 074531595X
ISBN 13: 9780745315959

Media Reviews
'Martin Murray talks 'about Lacan' in a way that nobody has before: he explains in crystal clear, easily understandable language not just what the notoriously opaque Lacan's ideas were 'about', but also the various shaping forces -- personal, historical, cultural, ideological, artistic' -- Jonathan Gil Harris, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of English, Ashoka University
'With extraordinary intellectual generosity (and some humour), he forges a form of psychoanalytic sensibility that is vitalised, not exhausted, by the dazzle and difficulty of its subject' -- Vicky Lebeau, Professor of English, University of Sussex
Author Bio
Martin Murray is Head of the School of Media, Culture and Communication at London Metropolitan University. He has published various articles on psychoanalysis, philosophy, literature and culture in academic and non-academic journals.