Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud: The Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary (Paperback)
Philippe Julien's JACQUES LACAN'S RETURN TO FREUD is an introduction to basic Lacanian thought and to the historical development of that thought from its earliest stirrings in 1932 to its efflorescence between 1953 and Lacan's death in 1981. The book's inspired focus on the stages of Lacan's transformatoin of the concepts of the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary offers a new take on the French analyst's emergence not as a 'Lacanian, ' but as a 'Freudian.'