From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious

Taylor & Francis

Presets an introduction to Lacans work that bridges the gap between discourse-analytical debates in social psychology and the social-theoretical extensions of discourse theory. This book compares Lacanian concepts to their counterparts in psychology. > This striking Lacanian contribution to discourse analysis is also a critique of contemporary psychological abstraction, as well as a reassessment of the radical opposition between psychology and psychoanalysis. This original introduction to Lacans work bridges the gap between discourse-analytical debates in social psychology and the social-theoreti > Preface -- Introduction -- The symbolic and the imaginary -- The signifier and the signified -- Full speech and empty speech -- Enunciation and enunciated -- The subject as a signifier to another signifier -- The unconscious as the discourse of the Other -- The representative of the subject -- The discourse of the master -- The being of speech -- The interpretation of wisdom -- Concln