Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan

by Louis Althusser, Olivier Corpet (Editor), François Matheron (Editor), Jeffrey Mehlman (Translator)

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:	9780585041476
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	12/17/1996
Series:	European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	999
File size:	533 KB

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

. . . 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

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 a fascinating group of historical documents.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

Boston Book Review

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

First published in France by Stock/INEC, 1993, this volume is translated and contains a preface by Jeffrey Mehlman. It consists of several of Althusser's articles, accompanied by explanatory notes and, in some cases, the written fallout from the articles, as well as Althusser's correspondence with Lacan. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews