New Remarks on the Passage to the Act

<p><i>New Remarks on the Passage to the Act</i> considers what happens when psychoanalysis and the social sciences are called on to help modern societies overwhelmed by unexplained violence.</p><p>Jean Allouch examines key events – the crimes of the Papin sisters Lacan’s case of Aimée and the murder of Hélène Rytmann by Louis Althusser – and unpacks the concept of the passage to the act. The book assesses these classic cases resorting to contemporaneous studies and literature particularly discussing Marguerite Duras’ novel <i>L’Amante Anglaise</i>. The book also considers modern acts of terrorism.</p><p><i>New Remarks on the Passage to the Act</i> will be of great interest to clinicians academics and scholars of psychoanalysis Lacanian studies sociology cultural studies and philosophy and to Lacanian analysts in practice and in training.</p>