Introducing Lacan: A Graphic Guide
An illustrated primer introducing Jacques Lacan's ideas to newcomers.
Introducing Lacan sets out Jacques Lacan's central ideas in the illustrated format of Icon's Graphic Guides, with text by Darian Leader, a practising analyst, and drawings by Judy Groves. Across short, image-led spreads it follows Lacan from his early work on paranoia through his reading of structural linguistics into psychoanalysis and his account of the infant mirror phase, and traces how his thinking reached art, literature, philosophy and feminism.
For a clinician trained in another tradition, it works as a fast orientation to Lacan rather than a substitute for the seminars. Leader keeps the technical vocabulary (the imaginary, the symbolic, the real, the objet a) tied to concrete examples, so the reader can see what each term is doing before meeting it in denser secondary writing.
The book first appeared in 1995; this Graphic Guide edition was published by Icon Books in 2010 and runs to 176 pages.
About the authors
Darian Leader
Darian Leader is a British psychoanalyst and author working in the Lacanian tradition. Born in 1965, he was a founder member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) in London and serves as president of the College of Psychoanalysts (UK). His books include Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?, The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, What Is Madness?, and Hands. He is also a trustee of the Freud Museum.
Judy Groves
Judy Groves is a British artist, illustrator and designer. She is known for her illustrations across the Introducing series of Graphic Guides, published by Icon Books, which pair a specialist author's text with drawn artwork to present ideas in comic form. As illustrator, not author, she provided the images for Introducing Lacan (written by Darian Leader) and has illustrated further titles in the series, including guides to Chomsky, Wittgenstein, Levi-Strauss, Jesus and philosophy.
Judy Groves
Judy Groves is a British artist, illustrator and designer. She is known for her illustrations across the Introducing series of Graphic Guides, published by Icon Books, which pair a specialist author's text with drawn artwork to present ideas in comic form. As illustrator, not author, she provided the images for Introducing Lacan (written by Darian Leader) and has illustrated further titles in the series, including guides to Chomsky, Wittgenstein, Levi-Strauss, Jesus and philosophy.
Details
- 1995
- Icon Books
- Icon Books
- 176
- 9781848311831