The Palgrave Lacan Series

Neill, C. (Ed), Hook, D. (Ed)

Jacques Lacan is one of the most important and influential thinkers of the 20th century. The reach of this influence continues to grow as we settle into the 21st century, the resonance of Lacan's thought arguably only beginning now to be properly felt, both in terms of its application to clinical matters and in its application to a range of human activities and interests. The Palgrave Lacan Series is a book series for the best new writing in the Lacanian field, giving voice to the leading writers of a new generation of Lacanian thought. The series will comprise original monographs and thematic, multi-authored collections. The books in the series will explore aspects of Lacan's theory from new perspectives and with original insights. There will be books focused on particular areas of or issues in clinical work. There will be books focused on applying Lacanian theory to areas and issues beyond the clinic, to matters of society, politics, the arts and culture. Each book, whatever its particular concern, will work to expand our understanding of Lacan's theory and its value in the 21st century.

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Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049 Book

Lacanian Perspectives on Blade Runner 2049

Neill, C. (Ed) (2021)

This book provides a collection of Lacanian responses to Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 from leading theorists in the field.  Like Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner film, …

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The Autistic Subject Book

The Autistic Subject

Brenner, L. S. (2020)

This book presents a theory of autistic subjectivity from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Brenner describes autism as a singular mode of being that is fundamentally …

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Lacan the Charlatan Book

Lacan the Charlatan

Mathews, P. D. (2020)

This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques Lacan by Noam Chomsky in an interview in 1989. He stated that Lacan was a “charlatan” – not that …

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Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII Book

Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII

Basu Thakur, G. (Ed), Dickstein, J. (Ed) (2020)

This book provides 18 lively commentaries on Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference (1960-61) that explore its theoretical and philosophical consequences in the clinic, the classroom, …

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On Silence Book

On Silence

Pluth, E., Zeiher, C. (2019)

This book promotes a Lacanian approach to silence, arguing that Lacanian psychoanalysis is distinctive for putting a high value on both silence and language. Unlike other …

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Subjectivity In-Between Times Book

Subjectivity In-Between Times

Wang, C. (2019)

This book is the first to systematically investigate how the notion of time is conceptualised in Jacques Lacan’s work. Through a careful examination of Lacan’s various …

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Being and Contemporary Psychoanalysis Book

Being and Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Di Liberto, Y. (2019)

This book explores how philosophical realisms relate to psychoanalytical conceptions of the Real, and in turn how the Lacanian framework challenges basic philosophical notions of …

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Jacques Lacan and American Sociology Book

Jacques Lacan and American Sociology

Rousselle, D. (2019)

In this Palgrave Pivot, Duane Rousselle aims to disrupt the hold that pragmatist ideology has had over American sociology by demonstrating that the social bond has always been …

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Discourse Ontology Book

Discourse Ontology

Tombras, C. (2019)

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan’s post-Freudian metapsychology. It argues that a …

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Lacan and the Nonhuman Book

Lacan and the Nonhuman

Basu Thakur, G. (Ed), Dickstein, J. M. (Ed) (2018)

This book initiates the discussion between psychoanalysis and recent humanist and social scientific interest in a fundamental contemporary topic – the nonhuman. The authors …

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Lacan and the Posthuman Book

Lacan and the Posthuman

Matviyenko, S. (Ed), Roof, J. (Ed) (2018)

When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and …

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Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance Book

Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance

Moncayo, R. (2018)

This book explores the practice and transmission of Lacanian and Freudian theory. It discusses the pure versus applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice; and …

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Irrepressible Truth Book

Irrepressible Truth

Johnston, A. (2017)

This book offers readers a uniquely detailed engagement with the ideas of legendary French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The Freudian Thing is one of Lacan’s most important texts, …

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The Law of Desire Book

The Law of Desire

Nobus, D. (2017)

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of Lacan’s Kant with Sade, an essay widely recognised as one of his most important and difficult texts. Here, the reader will …

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Perversion Now! Book

Perversion Now!

Caine, D. (Ed), Wright, C. (Ed) (2017)

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion …

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Writing the Structures of the Subject Book

Writing the Structures of the Subject

Greenshields, W. (2017)

This book examines and explores Jacques Lacan’s controversial topologisation of psychoanalysis, and seeks to persuade the reader that this enterprise was necessary and important. …

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2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory Book

2001: A Space Odyssey and Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory

Bristow, D. (2017)

In 1968, Stanley Kubrick completed and released his magnum opus motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey; a time that was also tremendously important in the formation of the …

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Out of the Past Book

Out of the Past

Tyrer, B. (2016)

This book presents a new reading of film noir through psychoanalytic theory. In a field now dominated by Deleuzian and phenomenological approaches to film-philosophy, this book …

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Lacan and the Environment Book

Lacan and the Environment

Burnham, C. (Ed), Kingsbury, P. (Ed) (2021)

In this exciting new collection, leading and emerging Lacanian scholars seek to understand what psychoanalysis brings to debates about the environment and the climate crisis. They …

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The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence Book

The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence

Millar, I. (2021)

This book examines the crucial role of psychoanalysis in understanding what AI means for us as speaking, sexed subjects. Drawing on Lacanian theory and recent clinical …

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