Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis Bk. 11 Condition:Well Read whose misadventures in the culture

whose misadventures in the culture wars-on both sides of the Atlantic-serve to skewer everything from family life to political correctness to the combustive collision between the personal and the political

past or present

by everyone from Stephen Colbert to Tavis Smiley to George Stephanopolous on Good Morning America

part meditation on faith

But sometimes fate has a wicked sense of humor

Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis Bk. 11 Condition:Well Read whose misadventures in the cultureThis volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to "introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho analysis is based," namely, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive. Along the way he argues for a structural affinity