Against Adaptation: Lacan's "Subversion" of the Subject

Practicing psychoanalyst Haute (philosophical anthropology, U. of Nijmegen, the Netherlands) comments narrowly on Lacan's The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious , because this work functions as a hinge between his works of the 1950s and 1960s, and introduces his famous graph of desire. The study is reworked, expanded, and translated from a talk at a March 1998 workshop of the Centre for Psychoanalysis and Philosophical Anthropology in Leuvan and/or Nigmegen. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Philippe Van Haute is a practicing psychoanalyst and a professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Nijmegen.