Against Understanding, Volume 1 : Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key (Paperback)

Preface. Acknowledgments. Commentary. On Clinical Practice. Against Understanding: Why Understanding Should Not Be Viewed as an Essential Aim of Psychoanalytic Treatment. Lacanian Clinical Practice: From the Imaginary to the Symbolic. A Lacanian Response to Foucault’s Critique of Psychoanalysis.Compulsive Eating and the Death Drive. On Reading Lacan. A Brief Reader’s Guide to "Variations on the Standard Treatment".Reading Hamlet with Lacan. On Translation. A Psychoanalytic Ethics of Translation.On Translating Ecrits: A Selection.Cases. Both/And Logic in a Case of Fetishism. Inter(oed)dictions. Sexual Anxieties.Psychoanalytic Approaches to Severe Pathology: A Lacanian Perspective. Marilyn Monroe and Modern-Day Hysteria. Critique. Interview: A Psychoanalyst Has to Speak like an Oracle. Interview: Lacan’s Reception in the United States. A Summary Comparison of Psychoanalytic Paradigms.