The Seminar, Book X

Summary:
In his seminar X, which is appearing in German translation for the first time, Jacques Lacan explores the various manifestations of anxiety in both its deceptive and truthful aspects. He engages with different intellectual traditions, including philosophical predecessors from Aristotle to Heidegger, as well as writers like Montaigne and Chekhov, and writer-philosophers such as Sartre, Shestov, and especially Kierkegaard. Additionally, Lacan incorporates his encounters with Buddhism into the seminar, linking them with personal accounts from a trip to Japan. Notably, this seminar includes an intensive analysis of the phenomenon of anxiety within the context of practiced psychoanalysis. Within Lacan's overall work, the seminar holds a special place as it offers a particularly coherent and linguistically brilliant summary of the teachings developed thus far.

Authors: Lacan, Jacques; Miller, Jacques A. (ed.); Gondek, Hans-Dieter (trans. from the author: Jacques Lacan (1901-1981), French psychoanalyst, reinterpreted the writings of Sigmund Freud and radicalized his approaches, drawing on philosophy, linguistics, and mathematics among other fields.