Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic theory of speech and language

Abstract

Books reviewed ÉCRITS, A SELECTION. By Jacques Lacan. Trans. by Alan Sheridan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1977; pp. xiv+338. $16.75. THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS OF PSYCHO‐ANALYSIS. By Jacques Lacan. Edited by Jacques‐Alain Miller. Trans. by Alan Sheridan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1978; pp. xi+290. $18.95.