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[[Jacques Lacan]]’s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|writings]], and especially the [[seminars]] for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud.  [[Jacques Lacan]]’s [[Jacques Lacan:Bibliography|writings]], and especially the [[seminars]] for which he has become famous, offer a controversial, radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by [[Freud]].  ---- This volume is based on a year’s [[seminar]] in which Dr. [[Lacan]] addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. This volume is based on a year’s [[seminar]], which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger, less specialist audience than ever before, amongst whom he could not assume familiarity with his work.  ---- For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted “to "to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis ]] is based”based", namely the ''[[unconscious]]'', ''[[repetition]]'', the ''[[transference ]]'' and the ''[[drive]]''. ---- Along the way he argues for a structural affinity between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[language]], discusses the relation of [[psychoanalysis]] to [[religion]], and reveals his particular stance on topics ranging from [[sexual difference|sexuality]] and [[death]] to [[alienation]] and [[repression]]. This book constitutes the essence of [[Lacan]]'s sensibility.