From the Conscious Interior to an Exterior Unconscious

Taylor & Francis

This book shows that Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytical terminology can neither be translated nor assimilated to the terms of psychology. It bridges the gap between discourse analytical debates in social psychology and the social-theoretical extensions of discourse theory. > 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 Lacan\u2019s work bridges the gap between discourseanalytical debates in social psychology and the social-theoretical extensions of discourse theory. David Pav\u00F3n Cu\u00E9llar provides a precise definition and a detailed explanation of key Lacanian concepts, and illustrates how they may be put to work on a concrete discourse, in this case a fragment of an interview obtained by the author from the Mexican underground Popular Revolutionary Forces (EPR). Throughout the book,n