Derek Hook & Calum Neill 
Reading Lacan’s Ecrits [PDF ebook] 
From Logical Time to Response to Jean Hyppolite

Reading Lacan s Ecrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan s Ecrits to be published in English. This third volume provides an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan s most crucial and notoriously challenging writings, from Logical Time to Response to Jean Hyppolite , and including The Function and Field of Speech , Variations on the Standard Treatment and Presentation on Transference . With the contributions of some of the world s most renowned Lacanian scholars and analysts such as Bernard Burgoyne, Marc De Kesel and Russell Grigg this volume encompasses a series of systematic, paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries which not only contextualize, explain and interrogate Lacan s arguments, but afford the reader multiple interpretive routes through the complete edition of Lacan s most labyrinthine of texts. As there is no existing set of exhaustive commentaries on Lacan s Ecrits available in English, this volume acts as an essential and incisive reference-text for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice, as well as philosophers, cultural theorists and literary, social science and humanities researchers. Considering the significance of Ecrits as a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis, this far-reaching and accessible guide will sustain and continue to animate critical engagement with one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century.