Lacan Today: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in philosophy and the social sciences in a book that shows how it is possible to see the value of Lacanian concepts without being defined by them.
"Sergio Benvenuto brings a fresh look on Lacan and on psychoanalysis that couldn't be more right. Right because it discerns extremely well what distinguishes from every 'lacanianism' and from every theoretical construction a concern for the real as an impossibility to give reason. It thus distinguishes what makes Lacan, before anything else, a thinker among thinkers." -Jean-Luc Nancy, is a French philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Chair and Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS
"A conversation with Lacan is the last thing imaginable-he's just so impenetrable, obstinate, clownish, exceptionally French! In this stunning, concise book, Sergio Benvenuto imagines the unimaginable, giving us a nondogmatic Lacan to converse, and even, play with.?He turns?Lacan's tense flesh into feeling, life, and breath." -Jamieson Webster, psychoanalyst in New York, has written for the Guardian, the New York Times and is the author of several books
