The Lacanian tradition is unique among psychoanalytic schools in its influence upon academic fields such as literature, philosophy, and cultural and critical studies. This book aims to make Lacan's ideas accessible and relevant to mainstream psychoanalysts and to showcase developments in Lacanian thinking since his death in 1981.

This volume highlights the clinical usefulness of such concepts as the paternal metaphor, the formula of fantasy, the psychic structure, the central role of desire, and the interlinking of the individual subject in the matrix of the Other. While these...