Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From ¿The Freudian Thing¿ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'

The -rits was Jacques Lacan''s single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud via structural linguistics, philosophy and literature. Reading Lacan''s -rits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan''s -rits to be published in English.

An invaluable document in the history of psychoanalysis, and one of the most challenging intellectual works of the 20^th Century, Lacan''s -rits still today begs the interpretative engagement of clinicians, scholars, philosophers and cultural theorists. The three volumes of Reading Lacan''s -rits offer just this: a series of systematic paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries - by some of the world''s most renowned Lacanian analysts and scholars - on the complete edition of the -rits, inclusive of lesser known articles such as ''Kant with Sade'', ''The Youth of Gide'', ''Science and Truth'', ''Presentation on