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Probably the most important non-British ‘revisionism’ within psychoanalysis has been provided by Jacques Lacan, the French analyst, who separated from the mainstream psychoanalytical movement in 1953, and has produced a dazzling if difficult body of work.
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See Bradley A. Te Paske, Rape and Ritual: A Psychological Study (Toronto: Inner City Books, 1982).
John Donne, ‘The Canonization’, in Herbert Grierson (ed.), the Poems of John Donne (London: OUP, 1933), p. 14.
J. Lacan, ‘God and the Jouissance of The Woman’, in Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose (eds), Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the Ecole Freudienne (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1982), p. 143.
F. de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966), pp. 111ff.
See Lynne Segal, Straight Sex: The Politics of Pleasure (London: Virago, 1994), pp. 130–40.
Further analysis of the horror film can be found in Roger Horrocks, Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995), chapter 7.
See Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries (London: Virago, 1990).
On Lacan’s Hegelian influences, see Ross Skelton, ‘Lacan for the faint hearted’, British Journal of Psychotherapy 10: 3 (1994), pp. 418–29.
Karl Marx, ‘Economic and philosophical manuscripts’, in Early Writings (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975), p. 385.
K. Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft) (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1993), p. 84.
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Horrocks, R. (1997). Lacan: Lack and Desire. In: Campling, J. (eds) An Introduction to the Study of Sexuality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230390140_5
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