Lacan's Clinical Technique

In this book, Antonio Quinet introduces the essentials of Lacanian clinicial technique effortlessly and with great humour. Conceptual issues are linked directly to the clinic, and the rationale of the Lacanian approach is explained with clarity and ease.

Antonio Quinet, MD, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and playwright. He is a member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field; a Professor of the Graduate Program in Psychoanalysis, Health and Society (UVA, Rio de Janeiro), where he developed the research project 'Theatre and Psychoanalysis'; and the director of the 'Unconscious on Stage Company'. He is the author of ten books published in Brazil (two translated into French and one into Spanish), as well as many articles published in Brazil and abroad on psychoanalysis, and seven plays staged in many cities in Brazil, as well as Rome, Paris, and London.

About the Author , Preface , Prelude to the Afternoon of an Analyst , The Analyst's Discourse , Civilisation and its jouissance , Lacanian discourses , The bond, the analyst, and the object , Conditions for Analysis , Starting , Couch , Time , Money , The Art of the Analyst , Cut! , Act and semblant , Interpretation and lalangue