Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan

by Louis Althusser, Olivier Corpet, François Matheron, Jeffrey Mehlman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231101691
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	03/03/1999
Series:	European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Louis Althusser (1918-1990) is the author of For Marx, Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar), Essays in Self Criticism, and other works.

Editorial Reviews

Splendidly brought together and presented.... a fascinating group of historical documents.... Revealing.

Boston Book Review

... 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.

European Journal of Social Theory

Althusser's writings on psychoanalysis have now been collected in a single volume in English. . . Includes his legendary 1964 essay, 'Freud and Lacan, ' as well as two additional essays, some speeches and a selection of his correspondence with Lacan.

Perry Meisel