This book provides the first truly sustained commentary to appear in either French or English on Lacan's most important seminar, The Four Fundamental Concepts o

The author's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as

In this collection of essays, Lacan's early work is first discussed systematically by focusing on his two earliest seminars: Freud's Papers on Technique and The

Examines Lacan's key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love.

Revolutionary and innovative, Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, and enjoyment.