Colette Soler follows the movement of Lacan's teaching from its early years to its final phase, tracking how his central concepts changed as he worked and reworked them. The book takes as its organising thread Lacan's late claim that the unconscious is real, a formula that departs from the better known idea that the unconscious is structured like a language. Soler reconstructs the steps by which he arrived there.
For the clinician, the value lies in how Soler reads these shifts against practice. She sets out what the change means for the subject, for the symptom, for affect, and for the aims and ending of an analysis, and she keeps each argument close to the consulting room rather than to commentary. A closing section turns to the political stakes of Lacan's position.
Esther Faye and Susan Schwartz translated the book from the French; Karnac published the English edition in 2014, and it is now issued by Routledge.
About the author
Colette Soler
Colette Soler is a French psychoanalyst who trained with Jacques Lacan and practises and teaches in Paris. A member of the Ecole freudienne de Paris until its dissolution, she later became a founding figure of the Forums of the Lacanian Field and its School of Psychoanalysis, established after the 1998 split in the Lacanian movement. She works within the Lacanian tradition and is known for writing on affect, the clinic, and Lacan's later teaching, including Lacan Reading Joyce and Lacan: The Unconscious Reinvented.
Details
- 2014
- 2014
- French
- Esther Faye and Susan Schwartz
- Routledge
- Routledge
- 246
- 9781780490991