Kareen Ror Malone is Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of West Georgia and Stephen R. Friedlander is President of the Friedlander Center for Leadership Development.

"I don't know of anything on Lacan comparable to this book in terms of being both engaging and accurate. It would seem that these authors have, in a sense, been in training for a number of years to make the effort to get Lacan across to the rest of us. This is a rich and superb contribution in an area where almost nothing is available." — Frank C. Richardson, coauthor of Re-envisioning Psychology: Moral Dimensions of Theory and Practice"What is most striking about this book is the instruction it offers on the core features of Lacan's theories: the chapters invite readers into Lacanian analyses, present intriguing features of his work, and do so without didactic prose or condescending description. It is refreshingly iterative in the sense that chapters revisit and re-present in different form some core features of the model. A gentle yet sophisticated primer on Lacan." — Jill Morawski, author of Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology: Notes on a Liminal Science

• List of Figures Acknowledgments IntroductionKareen Ror Malone and Stephen R. Friedlander Part I. Lacan and Psychological TheoryKareen Ror Malone 1. The Cartesian Subject without the Cartesian Theatre Slavoj Zizek 2. The Origins and Self-Serving Functions of the EgoJohn Muller 3. Socializing Psycholinguistic Discourse: Language as Praxis in LacanSuzanne Barnard 4. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic Orientation of Religious ExperienceDavid Metzger 5. No Laughing Matter: Girls' Comics and the Preparation for Adolescent FemininityValerie Walkerdine 6. Homosexualities from Freud to LacanRobert Samuels 7. Jouissance in the CureAndré Patsalides and Kareen Ror Malone Part II. Lacan and the ClinicStephen R. Friedlander 8. The "Third Party" in PsychoanalysisStephen R. Friedlander 9. The Analytic RelationshipBruce Fink 10. Some Reflections on Lacan's View of InterpretationMario L. Beira 11. How Analysis Cures According to LacanMark Bracher 12. The Treatment of PsychosisWilly Apollon, Danielle Bergeron, and Lucie Cantin 13. Lacan and Family Therapy?! Opening a Space for Lacan in American Clinical PracticeDaniel L. Buccino Part III. Lacan, Psychology, and CultureKareen Ror Malone 14. How the Fact That There Is No Sexual Relation Gives Rise to CultureEllie Ragland 15. Femininity and the Limits of TheoryPaola Mieli16. Why Do People Take Prozac? Anxiety, Symptom, and the Inhibition of ResponsibilityPatricia Gherovici 17. Lacan's Social Psychoanalysis: Religion and Community in a Pluralistic SocietyDavid S. Caudill 18. Lacan in America Donna Bentolila 19. Looking for Lacan: Virtual PsychologyIan Parker 20. Executors of an Ancient PactLúcia Villela Glossary of Lacanian Terms List of Contributors Index

Kareen Ror Malone is Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of West Georgia and Stephen R. Friedlander is President of the Friedlander Center for Leadership Development.

"I don't know of anything on Lacan comparable to this book in terms of being both engaging and accurate. It would seem that these authors have, in a sense, been in training for a number of years to make the effort to get Lacan across to the rest of us. This is a rich and superb contribution in an area where almost nothing is available." — Frank C. Richardson, coauthor of Re-envisioning Psychology: Moral Dimensions of Theory and Practice"What is most striking about this book is the instruction it offers on the core features of Lacan's theories: the chapters invite readers into Lacanian analyses, present intriguing features of his work, and do so without didactic prose or condescending description. It is refreshingly iterative in the sense that chapters revisit and re-present in different form some core features of the model. A gentle yet sophisticated primer on Lacan." — Jill Morawski, author of Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology: Notes on a Liminal Science

• List of Figures Acknowledgments IntroductionKareen Ror Malone and Stephen R. Friedlander Part I. Lacan and Psychological TheoryKareen Ror Malone 1. The Cartesian Subject without the Cartesian Theatre Slavoj Zizek 2. The Origins and Self-Serving Functions of the EgoJohn Muller 3. Socializing Psycholinguistic Discourse: Language as Praxis in LacanSuzanne Barnard 4. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic Orientation of Religious ExperienceDavid Metzger 5. No Laughing Matter: Girls' Comics and the Preparation for Adolescent FemininityValerie Walkerdine 6. Homosexualities from Freud to LacanRobert Samuels 7. Jouissance in the CureAndré Patsalides and Kareen Ror Malone Part II. Lacan and the ClinicStephen R. Friedlander 8. The "Third Party" in PsychoanalysisStephen R. Friedlander 9. The Analytic RelationshipBruce Fink 10. Some Reflections on Lacan's View of InterpretationMario L. Beira 11. How Analysis Cures According to LacanMark Bracher 12. The Treatment of PsychosisWilly Apollon, Danielle Bergeron, and Lucie Cantin 13. Lacan and Family Therapy?! Opening a Space for Lacan in American Clinical PracticeDaniel L. Buccino Part III. Lacan, Psychology, and CultureKareen Ror Malone 14. How the Fact That There Is No Sexual Relation Gives Rise to CultureEllie Ragland 15. Femininity and the Limits of TheoryPaola Mieli16. Why Do People Take Prozac? Anxiety, Symptom, and the Inhibition of ResponsibilityPatricia Gherovici 17. Lacan's Social Psychoanalysis: Religion and Community in a Pluralistic SocietyDavid S. Caudill 18. Lacan in America Donna Bentolila 19. Looking for Lacan: Virtual PsychologyIan Parker 20. Executors of an Ancient PactLúcia Villela Glossary of Lacanian Terms List of Contributors Index

Kareen Ror Malone is Associate Professor of Psychology at the State University of West Georgia and Stephen R. Friedlander is President of the Friedlander Center for Leadership Development.

"I don't know of anything on Lacan comparable to this book in terms of being both engaging and accurate. It would seem that these authors have, in a sense, been in training for a number of years to make the effort to get Lacan across to the rest of us. This is a rich and superb contribution in an area where almost nothing is available." — Frank C. Richardson, coauthor of Re-envisioning Psychology: Moral Dimensions of Theory and Practice"What is most striking about this book is the instruction it offers on the core features of Lacan's theories: the chapters invite readers into Lacanian analyses, present intriguing features of his work, and do so without didactic prose or condescending description. It is refreshingly iterative in the sense that chapters revisit and re-present in different form some core features of the model. A gentle yet sophisticated primer on Lacan." — Jill Morawski, author of Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology: Notes on a Liminal Science

• List of Figures Acknowledgments IntroductionKareen Ror Malone and Stephen R. Friedlander Part I. Lacan and Psychological TheoryKareen Ror Malone 1. The Cartesian Subject without the Cartesian Theatre Slavoj Zizek 2. The Origins and Self-Serving Functions of the EgoJohn Muller 3. Socializing Psycholinguistic Discourse: Language as Praxis in LacanSuzanne Barnard 4. Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Neurotic Orientation of Religious ExperienceDavid Metzger 5. No Laughing Matter: Girls' Comics and the Preparation for Adolescent FemininityValerie Walkerdine 6. Homosexualities from Freud to LacanRobert Samuels 7. Jouissance in the CureAndré Patsalides and Kareen Ror Malone Part II. Lacan and the ClinicStephen R. Friedlander 8. The "Third Party" in PsychoanalysisStephen R. Friedlander 9. The Analytic RelationshipBruce Fink 10. Some Reflections on Lacan's View of InterpretationMario L. Beira 11. How Analysis Cures According to LacanMark Bracher 12. The Treatment of PsychosisWilly Apollon, Danielle Bergeron, and Lucie Cantin 13. Lacan and Family Therapy?! Opening a Space for Lacan in American Clinical PracticeDaniel L. Buccino Part III. Lacan, Psychology, and CultureKareen Ror Malone 14. How the Fact That There Is No Sexual Relation Gives Rise to CultureEllie Ragland 15. Femininity and the Limits of TheoryPaola Mieli16. Why Do People Take Prozac? Anxiety, Symptom, and the Inhibition of ResponsibilityPatricia Gherovici 17. Lacan's Social Psychoanalysis: Religion and Community in a Pluralistic SocietyDavid S. Caudill 18. Lacan in America Donna Bentolila 19. Looking for Lacan: Virtual PsychologyIan Parker 20. Executors of an Ancient PactLúcia Villela Glossary of Lacanian Terms List of Contributors Index