Psychology After Lacan

Psychology after Lacan reviews the significance of Jacques Lacan's work for a new generation of psychologists, and explores the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for the discipline of psychology and some of its key assumptions. Written from a psychology perpsective, the accounts of different aspects of Lacan's work are designed to be accessible to those in the discipline looking for new ideas.

Ian Parker was Co-Founder and is Co-Director (with Erica Burman) of the Discourse Unit. He is a member of the Asylum: Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry collective, and a practising psychoanalyst in Manchester. His research and writing intersects with psychoanalysis and critical theory. He is currently editing a book series Lines of the Symbolic (on Lacanian psychoanalysis in different cultural contexts) for Karnac Books. He edited the 2011 four-volume Routledge major work Critical Psychology, and is editing the series Concepts for Critical Psychology: Disciplinary Boundaries Re-Thought. His books on critical perspectives in psychology began with The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology, and How to End It (Routledge, 1989), and continued with Discourse Dynamics: Critical Analysis for Social and Individual Psychology (Routledge, 1992). His recent books include Qualitative Psychology: Introducing Radical Research (Open University Press, 2005) and Revolution in Psychology: Alienation to Emancipation (Pluto Press, 2007).

Introduction: Psychology after Lacan 1. Jacques Lacan: Barred Psychologist 2. Lacan, Psychology and the Discourse of the University 3. Everyday Behaviour(ism) and Therapeutic Discourse: Deconstructing the Ego as Verbal Nucleus in Skinner and Lacan 4. Socio-Critical Methods of Investigation: Four Strategies for Avoiding Psychoanalysis 5. Lacanian Ethics in Psychology: Seven Paradigms 6. Psychoanalytic Cyberspace, Beyond Psychology