Anxiety in the Era of Uncertainty: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Lacan's Seminars - Paperback

by Ali Chavoshian (Editor), Jung Eun Sophia Park (Editor)

The burgeoning field of Lacan studies critiques that most discourses have been formed in dominant cultures, considering the impacts of Western imperialism on the structure of non-Western or postcolonial human subjects. This groundbreaking work invites readers to read Jacques Lacan's Seminars in an interdisciplinary way with scholars from diverse backgrounds. Readers will see a new picture of anamorphosis emerge with possible transformation while facing the uncanny feeling of anxiety through the global peoples' perspectives.

Author Biography

Ali Chavoshian, is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist practicing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Berkeley, California. He is professor emeritus in clinical psychology, former Dean, at the Graduate Psychology Department, New College of California, in San Francisco. He is also a visiting professor at the Guilan University of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Rasht, Iran, and an adjunct clinical faculty member at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California, serving as a clinical supervisor for graduate students. As a faculty member of the San Francisco Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis he has taught, trained, and practiced psychoanalysis for decades. In his publications and lectures he has explored psychoanalytic discourse from clinical and cultural perspectives.