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[[Image:FFC.gif|thumb|right|''The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI''. ''The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis''.]]
* {{L}} ''The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI''. ''[[The Four Fundamental Concepts of PsychoPsychoanalysis''. Ed. [[Jacques-AnalysisAlain Miller]]'' is the English translation of one of the pivotal works of . Trans. [[Jacques LacanAlan Sheridan]]. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1981.
The blurb describes the text as providing "illuminating insights into the mind of the most controversial psychoanalyst since [[Freud]]".
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''[[The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis]]'' is the English translation of one of the pivotal works of [[Jacques Lacan]].
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This classic text probes the relationship between [[psychoanalysis]] and [[science]] and [[religion]] as well as defining the [[unconscious]], the [[repetition]], the [[transference]], and the [[drive]] as the underlying concepts of [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis]].
 
=====Back Cover=====
 
 
[[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]].
 
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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.
 
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For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted "to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis]] is based", namely the ''[[unconscious]]'', ''[[repetition]]'', the ''[[transference]]'' and the ''[[drive]]''.
 
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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.
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In re-defining these four concepts he explores the question that, as he puts it, moves from "Is psycho-analysis a [[science]]?" to "What is a [[science]] that includes psycho-analysis?"
 
Dr Lacan argues in particular that there is a structural affinity between [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis]], construed as the [[science]] of the [[unconscious]], and [[language]] – the [[science]] of [[linguistics]] being one of the significant discoveries of our [[time]].
 
He also discusses the relation of [[psychoanalysis|psycho-analysis]] to [[religion]], and reveals his particular stance on a wide range of topics, such as [[sexuality]] and [[death]], [[love]] and [[libido]], [[alienation]], [[interpretation]], [[repression]] and [[desire]].
 
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This book constitutes the essence of Dr Lacan’s sensibility.
 
There is no clearer statement of the ideas and issues which have aroused such passionate reactions in France, and which can now gain the hearing they deserve in the English-speaking world.
 
* {{L}} ''The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI''. ''The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis''. Ed. [[Jacques-Alain Miller]]. Trans. [[Alan Sheridan]]. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1981.
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