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Download or read book Clinical Lacan written by Joel Dor and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 1998-09-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion text to Introduction the Reading of Lacan focuses on the concept of the psychic structures of desire. Using case examples, Dor explains the crucial difference between symptomsówhich can be phenomenologically graspedóand the actual psychic structure of the subjectówhich can be revealed only through the discourse of the patient in the psychoanalytic situation. This work brings life and practicality to a psychoanalytic movement that has been misperceived and divorced from the daily vicissitudes of analytic work.