Anxiety The Seminar of Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the historyof psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the20th Century. In <i>Anxiety</i>, now available for the first timein English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that itis not nostalgia for the object that causes anxiety but rather itsimminence. <p>In what was to be the last of his year-long seminars atSaint-Anne hospital, Lacan's 1962-63 lessons form the keystone tothis classic phase of his teaching. Here we meet for the first timethe notorious a in its oral, anal, scopic and vociferated guises,alongside Lacan’s exploration of the question of the'analyst's desire'. Arriving at these concepts from a multitude ofangles, Lacan leads his audience with great care through a range ofrecurring themes such as anxiety between jouissance and desire,counter-transference and interpretation, and the fantasy and itsframe.</p><p>This important volume, which forms <i>Book X</i> of <i>TheSeminar of Jacques Lacan</i>, will be of great interest to studentsand practitioners of psychoanalysis and to students and scholarsthroughout the humanities and social sciences, from literature andcritical theory to sociology, psychology and gender studies.</p>