Abstract

This book is possibly the first synthetic presentation of the whole of Lacan's theory. It is not just an explanation of Lacanian texts like the now standard text of Muller and Richardson, Lacan and Language. Nor is it just a presentation of a central problem like Dor's Introduction à la lecture de Jacques Lacan, which uses the graph of desire to introduce the reader to Lacan. Finally, it is more comprehensive than Lemaire's Jacques Lacan, where we only get an introduction to the early Lacan, with the exclusion of his doctoral thesis. This book by Julien gives an insight into the oeuvre of Lacan in such a way that nonanalysts can grasp the significance of the Lacanian project for their own discipline.