Anika Lemaire is a psychology graduate of the University of Louvain, Belgium. Her book, Jacques Lacan, was first published in French in 1970, and has since been translated into Spanish, Italian and Japanese as well as English.

One of the best academic introductions to Lacan's discourse. - Eugen Baer, Structuralist ReviewNot the charlatan he is sometimes designated, but someone to be reckoned with. I would reverse the usual prescription and suggest starting with the exposition and criticism fist, and only then proceeding to Lacan's own text, start with Anike Lemaire. - Anthony Storr, Sunday Times

• Contents: Preface by Jacques Lacan. Foreword by Antoine Vergote. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Synthesis of Lacanian Thought. Part I. Some Elements and Some Problems of General Linguistics. Part II. Lacan's Use of the General Data of Linguistics. Part III. The Constitution of the Subject by Accession to the Symbolic the Spaltung, The Role of the Oedipus in This Transition. Part IV. The Engendering of the Unconscious by Primal Repression (or Accession to Language) in Accordance with the Process of Metaphor. Part V. The Elementary Signifiers Constituting the Unconscious. Part VI. The Transition from Lack to Desire and to Demand. Part VII. The Mechanisms of the Formations of the Unconscious: Structure and Organization of the Unconscious Signifying Network. Part VIII. The General Conception of the Cure in Lacan. Part IX. The Lacanian Conception of Neurosis and Psychosis. Conclusion. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

Anika Lemaire is a psychology graduate of the University of Louvain, Belgium. Her book, Jacques Lacan, was first published in French in 1970, and has since been translated into Spanish, Italian and Japanese as well as English.

One of the best academic introductions to Lacan's discourse. - Eugen Baer, Structuralist ReviewNot the charlatan he is sometimes designated, but someone to be reckoned with. I would reverse the usual prescription and suggest starting with the exposition and criticism fist, and only then proceeding to Lacan's own text, start with Anike Lemaire. - Anthony Storr, Sunday Times

• Contents: Preface by Jacques Lacan. Foreword by Antoine Vergote. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Synthesis of Lacanian Thought. Part I. Some Elements and Some Problems of General Linguistics. Part II. Lacan's Use of the General Data of Linguistics. Part III. The Constitution of the Subject by Accession to the Symbolic the Spaltung, The Role of the Oedipus in This Transition. Part IV. The Engendering of the Unconscious by Primal Repression (or Accession to Language) in Accordance with the Process of Metaphor. Part V. The Elementary Signifiers Constituting the Unconscious. Part VI. The Transition from Lack to Desire and to Demand. Part VII. The Mechanisms of the Formations of the Unconscious: Structure and Organization of the Unconscious Signifying Network. Part VIII. The General Conception of the Cure in Lacan. Part IX. The Lacanian Conception of Neurosis and Psychosis. Conclusion. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.