Susan Fairfield Bücher

This text seeks to make Lacan's work understandable for both clinicians eager to figure out Lacan's theory and scholars in the various human sciences, upon which Lacan's work draws. The book probes the link between structuralism and linguistic theory, clarifying Lacan's famous formulation that the unconscious is structured like a language. It further provides the necessary theoretical grounding for the clinical application of Lacanian theory.

In the English-speaking psychoanalytic world, few diagnostic categories are as controversial as hysteria. This concept, widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices aganist women, has virtually disappeared from our theoretical literature, diagnostic manuals, and traning programs. However far from being gender-bound, hysteria from Jacques Lacan represents a psychic strategy that bears on one of the most fundamental preoccupations of existence: What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man?