Lacan s Return to Antiquity is the first book devoted to the role of classical antiquity in Lacan s work. Oliver Harris poses a question familiar from studies of Freud: what are Ancient Greece and Rome doing in a twentieth-century theory of psychology? In Lacan s case, the issue has an additional edge, for he employs antiquity to demonstrate what is radically "new "about psychoanalysis. It is a tool with which to convey the revolutionary power of Freud s ideas by digging down to the philosophical questions beneath them. It is through these questions that Lacan allies psychoanalysis with...