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Birth of the Other

  • ISBN-13: 9780252063930
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Rosine Lefort, By Robert Lefort
  • Price: AUD $51.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
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  • Local release date: 16/03/1994
  • Format: Paperback (235.00mm X 155.00mm) 376 pages Weight: 530g
  • Categories: Psychology [JM]
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Originally published as Naissance de l' Autre (1980), Birth of the Other offers a rare look at language acquisition from a Lacanian perspective. In 1951-52 Rosine Lefort conducted the treatment of two largely preverbal children, guiding them through psychoanalysis and meticulously documenting their activities. Lefort has applied her subsequent training in Lacanian theory to these early case notes, which provide remarkably lucid examples of exceedingly difficult concepts. This exceptional work thus clarifies many misconceptions about psychoanalytic theory, furnishes unique insight into what Lacan calls the ''time of analysis,'' and grants a clearer understanding of the relationship between language and the unconscious. ''Anyone interested in Lacan's psychoanalytical theories should not fail to read these revealing clinical studies by one of Lacan's most authoritative and lucid interpreters.''-- Herman Rapaport, author of Between the Sign and the Gaze
''Represents decades of clinical meditation on two analyses of very young children conducted in the early 1950s by Rosine Lefort... Anyone interested in Lacan's psychoanalytical theories should not fail to read these revealing clinical studies by one of his most authoritative and lucid interpreters. Readers who have been put off by Lacan's difficulty will find this book especially rewarding.'' -- Herman Rapaport, author of Between the Sign and the Gaze
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