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The Top 6 Books About Lacanian Psychology
1. The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis 2. The Pleasure of the Text 3. What Is Sex? (Short Circuits) 4. The Sublime Object of Ideology 5. How to Read Lacan 6.
- The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
- The Pleasure of the Text
- What Is Sex? (Short Circuits)
- The Sublime Object of Ideology
- How to Read Lacan
- Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture
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