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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Psychoses (Seminar of Jacques Lacan (Paperback)) (Book III) Reprint Edition

by Jacques Lacan (Author), Jacques-Alain Miller (Translator), Russell Grigg (Translator)
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Sometimes controversial, invariably fascinating, Lacan's psycholinguistic approach to analysis of the psychoses is seen here in virtually unmediated form.

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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The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. His many published works include Ecrits and The Seminars.

Jacques-Alain Miller is Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII and editor of Lacan's Seminars.

Russell Grigg practices psychoanalysis and teaches philosophy and psychoanalytic studies at Deakin University. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (July 17, 1997)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393316122
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393316124
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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eric zazie
5.0 out of 5 stars Lacan and the father
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2000
Lacan's seminars are superior to his articles because he clearly is addressing an audience, and needs to make himself understood, but he has already anticipated all of his students questions, as if he could read their minds: "I know what you're thinking." The argument of the third seminar is easy to summarize: the psychotic, because foreclosed from the father, faces a hole in the imaginary that is filled by the symbolic (or is it the other way around?), hence the hallucinations and voices. The psychotic always imagines that somewhere the big Other resides, in this world, like the man who broke into the US capital because there was a time machine inside that was trying to control his mind. The psychotic is in fact unable to distinguish the small from the big other. Lacan is always thought to be a little mad himself, something of a fraud, "il gagne beaucoup d'argent," and even Heidegger gave up reading Ecrits because he couldn't make sense of it, and he does make something of a display of his learning (not so much in this seminar). That said, there is something to Lacan, and eventually he will get his due, and outside the narrow circle of his devotees.
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Janina Levin
5.0 out of 5 stars Review of Jacques Lacan's Seminar on The Psychoses
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2006
This is an essential book for understanding Lacan's overall theoretical framework. Despite the esoteric sounding title, it is not just for specialists and doesn't just treat the subject of psychosis. Lacan reviews and repeats here with greater clarity the theories he developed in his first two seminars.
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4.0 out of 5 stars understanding is the best thing in the world
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2008
not just psychosis, but also delusion and paranoia. lacan's starting point is freud's case study of daniel paul schreber, and the text freud used, schreber's memoirs of my nervous illness, a book written by judge schreber 'during the last months of his confinement....an extremely trustworthy and extraordinarily composed' book, lacan said. also 'you will appreciate the courteous tone, the clarity and order.'

lacan himself was courteous, which lends emphathy to the subjects with whom he works, whether his subjects be deceased or fictional characters within some text.

lacan spoke of continuous conversation, of the internal monologue as continuous with the external dialogue, and why it is that analysts, and maybe readers, who for whatever reason read psychoanalytical textts, can say that the unconscious is also the discourse of the Other. 'if we admit the existence of the unconscious as freud elaborates it, we have to suppose that this sentence, this symbolic construction, covers all human lived experience like a web, that it's always there, more or less latent, and that it's one of the necessary elements of human adaptation. the fact that this may happen without one's knowledge might have been described as outlandish for a long time, but for us, this isn't so...'

lacan also includes within the topic of consciousness the act of reading, a form of internal monologue. and for a great many pages of this book i was aware of the ghost of kant and his phenomenon.

of course, there's much more. what i write here doesn't pretend to approach a sketch toward listening and understanding, which is what lacan wanted to teach here.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Lacan to be Read
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2000
The work of Jacques Lacan is infamous for the often obtuseness of its language and presentation. It is often said that the reader must work hard at Lacan to reach a glimmer of understanding. The work of Dr Russell Grigg as translator to this edition certainly gives the reader a head start. Dr Grigg address the work of Lacan from a new perspective of the 21st century, nolonger happy for the work to remain arcane and cloistered from the reading public, but he throws open the windows of further understanding for those willing to look and read closer the work of this French master. An excellent work.
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5.0 out of 5 stars What is wrong?
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5.0 out of 5 stars やっぱりラカンはセミネールから
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　Amazonで購入させていただきました。

　アメリカを代表するラカン派精神分析医であるブルース・フィンクが『ラカン派精神分析入門』（誠信書房、2008）の中で、「まずとっつきやすいのはセミネールの中でも『精神病』」（大意）と書いてあったので、邦訳は大体入手しているのですが、この『精神病』から読んでみました。

　ぼくは統合失調症になった友人がいるので、理解出来ることも多々あります。
　統合失調症を患ったことがない方でも『エクリ』と比べると段違いにとっつきやすいでしょう。
　確かに、下巻には以下のような文章もありますが。

「私が皆さんに理解できないような仕方でお話しする場合があるのは、わざととは言いませんが、実は明白な意図があるのです」 (p.9)

　おそらく教育分析を真の分析と考えていたラカンが、聴衆に対して自身に転移してもらうために「皆さんに理解できないような仕方でお話しする」のではないかと考えられます。

「基礎的現象」(p.21)（要素現象？）や「縁取りという現象」(p.263)や「象徴界の欠損、穴」(p.262)など次から次へと重要なタームが頻出します。もちとん精神病にとって一番大事なのは「排除」(p.18)なのですが、それが「否定」(p.18)や「是認」(p.18)とともに語られます。

　他のレビュアーの方も書かれているとおり、精神分析はフロイトによって神経症の治療法として確立されました。
　しかしラカンは、医学博士論文自体が『人格との関係からみたパラノイア性精神病』（朝日出版社、1987）であり、もともと精神病に興味を持っていた方なんですね。だから、ラカンは精神分析を精神病に開いたと言えると思います(ユングも精神病の治療をしていたみたいです。本書でも何度かユングは言及され、ラカンはお嫌いみたいですが）。

　『エクリ』で戸惑った方はまずセミネール、それもこの『精神病』がとっつきやすいかと思われます。
　オススメです。
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