Recommended.
Anthony Easthope, The Unconscious (Routledge,
2000)
Pamela Thurschwell, Sigmund Freud (Routledge,
2001)
Jacqueline Rose, Sexuality
in the Field of Vision (Verso)
Jacqueline Rose, Why War: Psychoanalysis, Politics and
the Return to Melanie Klein (Blackwell, 1993)
Michael Payne, Reading
Theory (Blackwell, 1993)
John Sturrock, ed., Structuralism
and Since (OUP, 1980)
1. Primary texts
by Lacan in translation.
Lacan, Jacques. Seminar I. Freud’s Papers on
Technique. CUP, 1987.
Lacan, Jacques. Seminar VII: Ethics. CUP, 1987.
Lacan, Jacques. Seminar XI: Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Trans.
Alan Sheridan. Penguin, 1986.
Lacan, Jacques. Ecrits: A Selection. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Tavistock, 1977.
Lacan, Jacques, Speech
and Language in Psychoanalysis. Trans. with Notes and Commentary by Anthony
Wilden. Johns Hopkins, 1968.
Mitchell, Juliet and Jacqueline Rose, eds. Feminine
Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the ecole Freudienne. Macmillan, 1982. (With
excellent explanatory introductions).
2. Expository Works on Lacan.
Flower-McCannell, Juliet. Figuring Lacan. London: Routledge, 1986.
Useful for Literature Students.
Grosz, Elizabeth. Jacques
Lacan: A Feminist introduction. London: Routledge, 1990.
Lemaire, Anika. Jacques Lacan. London: Routledge, 1979. A “structuralist”
introduction.
Ragland-Sullivan, Ellie and Mark Bracher, eds. Lacan and the subject of Language. London:
Routledge, 1991. Contains many useful explanatory essays.
Richardson, William J. “Lacan and
Non-Philosophy.” Philosophy and
Non-Philosophy Since Merleau-Ponty. Ed. Hugh J. Silverman. London:
Routledge, 1988. 120-135. Very good on Lacan’s relation to philosophy.
Wright, Elizabeth. Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice.
London: Routledge, 1986. This basic introduction to psychoanalytic criticism
generally, contains useful sections on Lacan.
Zizek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology. London: Verso, 1989. An advanced
introduction to Lacan via the problem of agency in a postmodern world.
3. Freud.
The Standard
Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. 24 Volumes. London: Hogarth Press, 1953-73. One of the world’s very few utterly
essential works.
The Pelican Freud:
Vol. 4. The
Interpretation of Dreams. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. A masterpiece. Worth owning. One of the essential texts for an understanding of
psychoanalysis.
Vol. 7. On
Sexuality. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1977. Important texts in the psychoanalytic destruction of traditional
notions of sexuality.
Vol. 14. On
Art and Literature. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978. How Freud finds psychoanalysis in literature.
The Essential
Freud. Not a bad compendium.
4.
Psychoanalysis and Melanie Klein
Burgin, Victor, James Donald and Cora Kaplan, eds. Formations of Fantasy. Routledge, 1989.
A Stimulating Collection
Klein, Melanie. Envy
and Gratitude. Virago, 1988. This
founder of the famous “Kleinian” school is currently receiving interest from
literary and cultural studies.
Klein, Melanie. Love,
Guilt, and Reparation. Virago, 1988.
Klein, Melanie. The Selected Melanie Klein. Mitchell, Juliet. Harmondsworth:
Penguin, 1986.
Kofman, Sarah. Freud
and Fiction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.
Laplanche, J. and J.-B. Pontalis. The Language of Psychoanalysis. London: Hogarth, 1973. Fully
cross-referenced, the reference guide par-excellence--a
dictionary/encyclopaedia.
Phillips, John and Lyndsey Stonebridge, eds. Reading Melanie Klein. London:
Routledge, 1998.
Rose, Jacqueline.
Why War? Oxford: Blackwell, 1993. A
modern classic.
5. Key titles
on the Dreamwork
Jeffrey Mehlman, “Trimethylamin: Notes of Freud’s Specimin
Dream.” Untying the
Text, ed. Robert Young (London: Routledge, 1981)
177-88.
Sarah Kofman, Freud and Fiction (London:
Blackwell, 1991)
Meredith Anne Skura, The Literary Use of the Psychoanalytic
Process (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1981)
Jacques Lacan, “The
Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as revealed in
Psychoanalytic
Experience,” and “The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious:or Reason Since
Freud,” Both in Ecrits (London: Tavistock,
1977)
Jean-Francois Lyotard, “The Dream-Work Does Not Think,”
The Lyotard Reader
ed. Andrew Benjamin (London: Blackwell, 1989)
Shoshana Felman, “On
Reading Poetry: Reflections on the
Limits and Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Approaches,” The Purloined Poe: Lacan,
Derrida and Psychoanalytic
Reading, eds. John Muller and William J. Richardson
(Baltimore: John Hopkins University,
1988) 133-56.
General Reading on Psychoanalysis, Language, Sexuality
and Society
Freud, On Sexuality, Penguin Freud No. 7.
Juliet Mitchell
and Jacqueline Rose (eds.) Feminine
Sexuality and the Ecole Freudienne (Macmillan, 1982).
Stephen Frosh,
“Social Repression,” The Politics of
Psychoanalysis (Macmillan, 1985)
Jacques Lacan,
“The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious,” Ecrits (Tavistock, 1977).