The second volume in the Studying Lacan’s Seminars series, this book is the first comprehensive study of Lacan’s Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation. A natural companion to Bruce Fink’s recent translation of the seminar into English (2019), this book offers a genuine opportunity to delve deeply into the seminar, providing a hospitable introduction to Lacan’s teachings of the 1950s.
Key Features
- Comprehensive Study: This volume provides an in-depth analysis of Lacan’s Seminar VI.
- Contextual Exploration: It introduces and contextualizes Lacan’s theorizing around key concepts such as the object a, fundamental fantasy, and aphanisis.
- Future Developments: The trajectories of Lacan's thinking are traced in relation to future seminars.
- Additional Essays: Includes valuable critiques and an overview of Seminar VI originally presented at the APW congress in Toronto 2014.
Additional Information
This important book brings together various aspects of Cox Cameron’s teachings and systematic, careful, and critical readings of Seminar VI. Consideration is also given to how certain themes and motifs are recapitulated or reworked in Lacan's later teachings such as in Seminars XX (Encore) and XXIII (The Sinthome). The book is of great interest to Lacanian scholars and students, as well as psychoanalytic therapists and analysts interested in Lacan’s teachings of the 1950s and in how important concepts developed during this period are treated in his later work.
