Lacan keyword-suffering Ever since the First World

Ever since the First World War

Mark Cousins

patriarchal ideologies

economic and ethnic landscape has been transformed in the thirty years between the death of Stalin and the election of Gorbachev

art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit

Lacan keyword-suffering Ever since the First WorldJacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations, his work has been a major influence on political theory, philosophy, literature and the arts, but his thought has so far been studied without a serious investigation of its foundations. Just what are the influences on his thinking, so crucial to its proper understanding? In Lacan: The Silent Partners Slavoj iek, the maverick theorist and