Studying Lacan’s Seminar IX: A Stranger in My Own Midst

Studying Lacan’s Seminar IX presents the combined teachings and exegeses of three eminent Lacanian scholars of one of Lacan’s notoriously difficult seminars in a set of detailed commentaries on the lessons of the seminar. Olga Cox Cameron, Dan Collins and Don Kunze offer chapters which attempt to navigate the twists and turns of Lacan’s logic offering multiple access points to the mystery of identification, transforming an intimidating seminar into a fertile space for critical thought. The volume will be an indispensable resource for those seeking to understand the structural patterns of the psyche through a rigorous topological lens and will appeal to scholars and students alike, as well as psychoanalytic therapist and analysts interesting in Lacan’s teachings.