Analyzes and explains Lacan's theories, with emphasis on the linguistic nature of psychoanalytic therapy. Advances the thesis that the unifying force behind the Lacanian oeuvre is the efficacy of the talking cure itself, discussing Lacan's relationship to Freud, to structuralism, and to the philosophical concerns of Heidegger and Gadamer. Originally published in German as Die Sprache und das Unbewesste: Jacques Lacans Grundlegung der Psychoanalyse in 1973 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
