The psychoses, 1955-1956
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The psychoses, 1955-1956
（The seminar of Jacques Lacan / edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, bk. 3）
W.W. Norton, 1997
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Psychoses
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"Originally published in French as Le seminaire, livre III, Les psychoses by Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1981"--
"First American edition 1993. First published as a Norton paperback 1997"--Verso of t.p.
Translation of: Les psychoses
Bibliography: p. 324-328
Includes index
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Taking us into and beyond the realm of Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan examines the psychoses' inescapable connection to the symbolic process through which signifier is joined with signified. Lacan deftly navigates the ontological levels of the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real to explain psychosis as "foreclosure," or rejection of the primordial signifier. Then, bridging the gap between the theoretical and the practical, Lacan discusses the implications for treatment. In these lectures on the psychoses, Lacan's renowned theory of metaphor and metonymy, along with the concept of the "quilting point," appears for the first time.
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