Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan

<p><b>In this first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work Nasio eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory even in its most difficult or obscure moments.</b></p><p>Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan is the first English translation of a classic text by one of the foremost commentators on Lacan's work. Juan-David Nasio makes numerous theoretical advances and eloquently demonstrates the clinical and practical import of Lacan's theory even in its most difficult or obscure moments. What is distinctive in the end about Nasio's treatment of Lacan's theory is the extent to which Lacan's fundamental concepts-the unconscious jouissance and the body-become the locus of the overturning or exceeding of the discrete boundaries of the individual. The recognition of the implications of Lacan's psychoanalytic theory then brings the analyst to adopt what Nasio calls a special listening.</p>