The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

Synopsis

Jacques lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, offer a controversial, radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by freud. This volume is based on a year's seminar in which dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to "introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based, " namely, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive.