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Roudinesco follows the development of Lacan's career from his early clinical practice and conflicts with the establishment, as he constantly pushed the boundaries of psychoanalysis from its roots in biology and neurology to a powerful critical tool that resonated in fields ranging from literary theory to feminist politics.

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Elisabeth Roudinesco is director of research at the University of Paris and director of studies at the cole Pratique des Hautes tudes, Sorbonne. She is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works, including Columbia University Press's Jacques Lacan and Why Psychoanalysis? William Mccuaig is most recently the translator of Gianni Vattimo's show more The Responsibility of the Philosopher. show less

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Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History
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150.195092Philosophy & psychologyPsychologyEmotions, Relationships, & FamilyTheory And InstructionSystems, schools, viewpointsPsychoanalytic systemsHistory, geographic treatment, biographyBiography
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BF109 .L28 .R6613Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPsychologyPsychology
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