Books
A short reading list, with one sentence on what each book is for.
Jacques Lacan · W. W. Norton · 1975
Lacan teaching rather than writing, and much the easier way in.
Jacques Lacan · Routledge · 1986
Desire, the good, and what an analyst is not entitled to want for a patient.
Bruce Fink · Princeton University Press · 1995
The clearest English exposition. Written by Lacan's principal translator.
Heinz Kohut · University of Chicago Press · 1971
Narcissism reconsidered as a developmental line rather than a defence to be dismantled.
Otto F. Kernberg · Jason Aronson · 1975
Structural diagnosis and the argument for a confrontative technique. The counterweight to Kohut.
Margaret S. Mahler, Fred Pine, Anni Bergman · Basic Books · 1975
Separation-individuation, observed rather than reconstructed from the couch.
Heinz Kohut · University of Chicago Press · 1977
Kohut after the break with drive theory. Empathy as method, not manner.
Jay R. Greenberg, Stephen A. Mitchell · Harvard University Press · 1983
The map of the field. Drive-structure against relational-structure, argued fairly on both sides.
Stephen A. Mitchell · Harvard University Press · 1988
The book that named the relational turn in American psychoanalysis.
Jessica Benjamin · Pantheon Books · 1988
Recognition and mutuality, and why domination is not simply an error.