Shuli Barzilai is Associate Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the co-editor (with Shlomith Rimmon-Kennan and Leona Toker) of Reading Texts/Rereading Critical Presuppositions.

"This outstanding book represents an entirely new approach to Lacan, treating the historical development in his work of theoretical shifts in the understanding of the mother in psychic development. I think it will be received as one of the most important introductions to and commentaries on Lacan in English."—Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley

• Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A brief history of The Origin of the World: Courbet and Lacan; 2. Early Hetero-orthodoxies: Lacan's family complexes; 3. 'History is not the Past': Lacan's critique of Ferenczi; 4. On chimpanzees and children in the looking-glass: Wallon's mirror experiments and Lacan's theory of reflective recognition; 5. Topographies of conflict: the Machia in the mirror stage; 6. 'Lacannibalism': the return to Freud's idea of identification; 7. Augustine in contexts (Part I): the riddle of a repetition; 8. Augustine in contexts (Part II): three variations on a scene from the Confessions; 9. 'Grandma, what a dreadfully big mouth you have!' Lacan's parables of the maternal object; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

Shuli Barzilai is Associate Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the co-editor (with Shlomith Rimmon-Kennan and Leona Toker) of Reading Texts/Rereading Critical Presuppositions.

"This outstanding book represents an entirely new approach to Lacan, treating the historical development in his work of theoretical shifts in the understanding of the mother in psychic development. I think it will be received as one of the most important introductions to and commentaries on Lacan in English."—Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley

• Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A brief history of The Origin of the World: Courbet and Lacan; 2. Early Hetero-orthodoxies: Lacan's family complexes; 3. 'History is not the Past': Lacan's critique of Ferenczi; 4. On chimpanzees and children in the looking-glass: Wallon's mirror experiments and Lacan's theory of reflective recognition; 5. Topographies of conflict: the Machia in the mirror stage; 6. 'Lacannibalism': the return to Freud's idea of identification; 7. Augustine in contexts (Part I): the riddle of a repetition; 8. Augustine in contexts (Part II): three variations on a scene from the Confessions; 9. 'Grandma, what a dreadfully big mouth you have!' Lacan's parables of the maternal object; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

Shuli Barzilai is Associate Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the co-editor (with Shlomith Rimmon-Kennan and Leona Toker) of Reading Texts/Rereading Critical Presuppositions.

"This outstanding book represents an entirely new approach to Lacan, treating the historical development in his work of theoretical shifts in the understanding of the mother in psychic development. I think it will be received as one of the most important introductions to and commentaries on Lacan in English."—Daniel Boyarin, University of California, Berkeley

• Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. A brief history of The Origin of the World: Courbet and Lacan; 2. Early Hetero-orthodoxies: Lacan's family complexes; 3. 'History is not the Past': Lacan's critique of Ferenczi; 4. On chimpanzees and children in the looking-glass: Wallon's mirror experiments and Lacan's theory of reflective recognition; 5. Topographies of conflict: the Machia in the mirror stage; 6. 'Lacannibalism': the return to Freud's idea of identification; 7. Augustine in contexts (Part I): the riddle of a repetition; 8. Augustine in contexts (Part II): three variations on a scene from the Confessions; 9. 'Grandma, what a dreadfully big mouth you have!' Lacan's parables of the maternal object; Epilogue; Notes; Index.