Free Psychology Books: Lacanian Psychoanalysis Revolutions by Keith Tudor

Lacanian Psychoanalysis Revolutions by Keith Tudor

This book is about the clinical practice of psychoanalysis as catalyst ofpersonal change and its intersection with social change. Psychoanalysiscontains resources aplenty to enable us to produce a theoretical articulationof the historical constitution of its own practice, and I seize the opportunityJacques Lacan offers to examine the implications for the place of the clinicas such. This introduction sets out some of the ground for that theoreticalarticulation; it includes a brief account of what we might expect to find ina Lacanian psychoanalytic session, an extended metaphor for Lacan'sdivinely-comedic vision of the core of psychoanalysis, and then a review ofsome assumptions that we will need to make before we really get going onthe journey into the book.

Lacan's elaboration of psychoanalytic theory was grounded in its practiceand followed the revolutionary dynamic of Freudian analysis, clarifyingand complicating it and also bringing alive the radical political ambitions ofthe early psychoanalytic movement. Each of the key elements - clinicalpractice, conceptual innovation, political implications - is worked throughin this book. I circle around the same issues from different vantage points,the only way to elaborate an argument concerning a form of psychoanalysisso suspicious of linear thought. The book provides an explication anddefence of Lacanian psychoanalysis through articulation of it with politicaleconomicconditions in which it became possible, and through elaborationof a new way through some of the deadlocks of current Lacanian debate.Lacanian psychoanalysis maintains a distinctive position in relation toother forms of therapeutic enquiry for it marks a 'return' to Freud which alsoenables an original development of psychoanalysis today. 

The designation'Lacanian psychoanalysis' is one that is not favoured by many of its practitioners,even while they well know that they must answer to this understandingof them as a particular group among psychoanalysts. At the sametime, the Lacanian corpus offers points of connection and dialogue withother forms of relational therapeutic enquiry, for Lacan's return to Freudianpsychoanalysis was characterised by his use of conceptual and culturalresources that had developed alongside the psychoanalytic tradition.

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