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 20th 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 Transference-
