Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents

Lacan did not say or write very much about the psychoanalysis of children. There is no doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children in his work. Instead, his 1956-1957 seminar on the object relation and his Note on the Child of 1969 have been adopted by Lacanian analysts working with children as providing essential coordinates for direction in their clinical work.

Key Features

• Theoretical Contributions: This book is the result of inviting psychoanalysts of the Lacanian orientation working with children around the globe to theorise and conceptualise that work.
• Child Subject Consideration: The Lacanian psychoanalyst works with the notion of the subject as a speaking being, but the child subject brings particular exigencies to the psychoanalytic work.
• Essays by Contributors: Contributors attend to these exigencies in their essays by articulating the precise particularities of the direction of the treatment and psychoanalytic work with children.

Additional Information

This book provides essential insights into the clinical work of Lacanian analysts with children, highlighting the differences and challenges presented by the child subject in psychoanalysis.