Reading Lacan's crits

Reading Lacans crits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacans crits to be published in English. This third volume provides an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacans most crucial and notoriously challenging writings, from Logical Time to Response to Jean Hyppolite, and including The Function and Field of Speech, Variations on the Standard Treatment and Presentation on Transference. With the contributions of some of the worlds most renowned Lacanian scholars and analysts such as Bernard Burgoyne, Marc De Kesel and Russell Grigg this volume encompasses a series of systematic, paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries which not only contextualize, explain and interrogate Lacans arguments, but afford the reader multiple interpretive routes through the complete edition of Lacans most labyrinthine of texts. As there is no existing set of exhaustive commentaries on Lacans crits available in English, this volume acts as an essential and incisive reference-text for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice, as well as philosophers, cultural theorists and literary, social science and humanities researchers. Considering the significance of crits as a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis, this far-reaching and accessible guide will sustain and continue to animate critical engagement with one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century.