Book cover for Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan by Louis Althusser

Writings on Psychoanalysis

Freud and Lacan

Louis Althusser
1999 Released
208 Pages
3-4 Hours
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Columbia University PressISBN 9780231101691
Translated by Jeffrey Mehlman

With several never-before published writings, this volume gathers Althusser's major essays on psychoanalytic thought----documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with Lacan, and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life.

Louis Althusser

Louis Althusser was born in Algeria in 1918 and died in France in 1990. He taught philosophy for many years at the �cole Normale Sup�rieure in Paris, and was a leading intellectual in the French Communist Party. His books include For Marx; Reading Capital (with Etienne Balibar); Essays in Ideology; Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Marx; Machiavelli and Us; and The Spectre of Hegel.

More by Louis Althusser

For Marx
On the Reproduction of Capitalism
Philosophy of the Encounter
On Ideology
Machiavelli and Us
Politics and History
Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists
Essays on Self-Criticism
Reading Capital
The Spectre of Hegel
The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays

Jeffrey Mehlman

Translated by

Jeffrey Mehlman is University Professor of French at Boston University. He is the author of several books, as well as a translator of many texts by Lacan and Derrida, among others.

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