Reading Lacan''s -rits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan''s -rits to be published in English, providing an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan''s best-known but notoriously challenging writings.
With the contributions of some of the world''s most renowned Lacanian scholars and analysts, Reading Lacan''s -rits encompasses a series of systematic, paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries that not only contextualise, explain and interrogate Lacan''s arguments but also afford the reader multiple interpretive routes through the complete edition of Lacan''s most labyrinthine of texts. Considering the significance of -rits as a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis, this far-reaching and accessible guide will sustain and continue to animate critical engagement with one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century.
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