This is a guide to Lacanian psychoanalytic practice. It elucidates the concept of psychic structure that distinguishes neurosis, psychosis, and the perversions, that is so seminal in Lacan's theory. The writer includes clinical examples that demonstrate the crucial difference between symptoms.
This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the subjectówhich can be revealed only through the discourse of the patient in the psychoanalytic situation. This work brings life and practicality to a psychoanalytic movement tha...
La enseñanza del psicoanálisis se está introduciendo más y más en las universidades y en cursos de postgrado y la promesa de títulos oficiales parece tranquilizar tanto a estudiantes como a autoridades sobre la legitimidad de esta práctica terapéutica. Joël Dor señala aquí los límites y las posibilidades de esta enseñanza discutiendo los criterios de Sigmund Freud y de Jacques Lacan y propone valiosas pautas para combinar adecuadamente la tran...
A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth." -Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School
