The Subject of Lacan: A Lacanian Reader for Psychologists(SUNY series, Alternatives in Psychology)

An accessible introduction to the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan, intended especially for American psychologists but useful to anyone interested in the work of this important thinker.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Kareen Ror Malone and Stephen R. Friedlander Part I. Lacan and Psychological Theory Kareen Ror Malone 1. The Cartesian Subject without the Cartesian Theatre Slavoj Zizek 2. The Origins and Self-Serving Functions of the Ego John Muller 3. Socializing Psycholinguistic Discourse: Language as Praxis in Lacan Suzanne Barnard 4. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic Orientation of Religious Experience David Metzger 5. No Laughing Matter: Girls' Comics and the Preparation for Adolescent Femininity Valerie Walkerdine 6. Homosexualities from Freud to Lacan Robert Samuels 7. Jouissance in the Cure Andre Patsalides and Kareen Ror Malone Part II. Lacan and the Clinic Stephen R. Friedlander 8. The "Third Party" in Psychoanalysis Stephen R. Friedlander 9. The Analytic Relationship Bruce Fink 10. Some Reflections on Lacan's View of Interpretation Mario L. Beira 11. How Analysis Cures According to Lacan Mark Bracher 12. The Treatment of Psychosis Willy Apollon, Danielle Bergeron, and Lucie Cantin 13. Lacan and Family Therapy?! Opening a Space for Lacan in American Clinical Practice Daniel L. Buccino Part III. Lacan, Psychology, and Culture Kareen Ror Malone 14. How the Fact That There Is No Sexual Relation Gives Rise to Culture Ellie Ragland 15. Femininity and the Limits of Theory Paola Mieli 16. Why Do People Take Prozac? Anxiety, Symptom, and the Inhibition of Responsibility Patricia Gherovici 17. Lacan's Social Psychoanalysis: Religion and Community in a Pluralistic Society David S. Caudill 18. Lacan in America Donna Bentolila 19. Looking for Lacan: Virtual Psychology Ian Parker 20. Executors of an Ancient Pact Lucia Villela Glossary of Lacanian Terms List of Contributors Index

About the Author :
Kareen Ror Malone is Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of West Georgia and Stephen R. Friedlander is President of the Friedlander Center for Leadership Development.

Review :
"I don't know of anything on Lacan comparable to this book in terms of being both engaging and accurate. It would seem that these authors have, in a sense, been in training for a number of years to make the effort to get Lacan across to the rest of us. This is a rich and superb contribution in an area where almost nothing is available." - Frank C. Richardson, coauthor of Re-envisioning Psychology: Moral Dimensions of Theory and Practice "What is most striking about this book is the instruction it offers on the core features of Lacan's theories: the chapters invite readers into Lacanian analyses, present intriguing features of his work, and do so without didactic prose or condescending description. It is refreshingly iterative in the sense that chapters revisit and re-present in different form some core features of the model. A gentle yet sophisticated primer on Lacan." - Jill Morawski, author of Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology: Notes on a Liminal Science