The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis by Lacan, Jacques; Wilden, Anthony (translator) - 1968

Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968. This book is centered around a translation of Lacan's 1953 article "Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse" which became a manifesto for a new reading of Freud; in addition to extensive notes that clarify and amplify the text, the translator has included a separate study "Lacan and the Discourse of the Other" that explicates aspects of Lacan's work and deals not only with Freud but also with the antecedents of Lacan's theory of language in Hegel and Heidegger, the structural linguistics of Saussure and Jakobson, and Levi-Strauss' concept of the symbolic function (dark red cloth with gold & black lettering on spine; a bright, clean, tight copy in very good condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment). First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.