Lacan

Jacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations his work has been a major influence on political theory philosophy literature and the arts but his thought has so far been studied without a serious investigation of its foundations. Just what are the influences on his thinking so crucial to its proper understanding?In <i>Lacan: The Silent Partners</i> Slavoj Žižek the maverick theorist and pre-eminent Lacan scholar has marshalled some of the greatest thinkers of our age in support of a dazzling re-evaluation of Lacan’s work. Focussing on Lacan’s ‘silent partners’ those who are the hidden inspiration to Lacanian theory they discuss his work in relation to the Pre-Socratics Diderot Hegel Nietzsche Schelling Hölderlin Wagner Turgenev Kafka Henry James and Artaud.This major collection including three essays by Žižek marks a new era in the study of this unsettling thinker breathing new life into his classic work.