Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan
Louis Althusser, Olivier Corpet (Editor), Francois Matheron (Editor), Jeffrey MehlmanBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Synopsis
With several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought——documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.
European Journal of Social Theory
. . . tackles topics and problems which are not at all over and done with in the human sciences, namely the relation between philosphy (theory and (the human science(s, a theory of historical, non-linear temporality and a theory of the 'decentred' subject. . . the theses and thoughts unfolded. . . testify to an exceedingly fertile appropriation of Freud, the long-term effect of which has yet to be assessed.