The Seminar of Jacques Lacan - Bk. 1 : Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54 (New ed)

This volume is the transcript of the first year of Lacan's world-famous seminar.

Taking as its theme the technique of psychoanalysis, within the framework of Lancan's 'return to Freud', it includes elaboration of Lacan's notions of the symbolic, the imaginary and the real, the importance of speech and language in psychoanalysis and the interpretation to be put on the mirror stage.