日本人によるユニークなラカン入門として
定評のある《カランの精神分析》の改訂英訳版。
懇切な注と解説が特色。

An interesting introduction to Lacan's Psycho-
analysis by the Japanese psychiatrist. Informative footnotes dealing with references and Japanese cultures will be of interest.

2004. 5 　　学樹書院 Gakuju Shoin

ISBN4-906502-28-8 C

A5変型/216頁/税込定価￥3675（本体￥3500）
234x150mm Soft US$39.80.-(Outside Japan)

C O N T E N T S

Author’s Acknowledgements
Translator’s Foreword

CHAPTER ONE: THE PSYCHOANALYTIC ROMANESQUE
One: Starting at the Very Beginning      
Two: Nadja and Breton       
Three: Aim?e and Lacan        

CHAPTER TWO: THE STAGE IS SET
One: After Freud         
Two: Melanie Klein     
Three: The Controversy Between Klein and Anna Freud      
Four: Enter Lacan        
Five: Schism ? 1953          

CHAPTER THREE: ROME : THE CORNERSTONE
One: The Politics of the Short Session        
Two: The Logic of the Short Session        
Three: Interpretation as Sonic Boom         
Four: The Efficacy of the Short Session        
Five: The Objet a is the Golden Mean          

CHAPTER FOUR: LANGUAGE AS THE OTHER
One: The Fundamental Epistemological Position of Psychoanalysis    
Two: The Discourse of the Other
Three: The Desire of the Other    
Four: The Desire of Nature        

CHAPTER FIVE: BECOMING OTHER
One: The Objet a Within the Discourse of the Other     
Two: The Murder of the Thing         
Three: Repetition (I)         
Four: The Theory of the Mirror Stage      
Five: Repetition (II)         
Six: Symbolic, Imaginary, Real   
Seven: Schema L and the Mirror    

CHAPTER SIX: ALL ALONE IN PARIS
One: The Unary Trait    
Two: The Ecole Freudienne de Paris   

CHAPTER SEVEN: WAITING FOR THE AGALMA
One: The Object of Psychoanalysis  
Two: Socrates      
Three: Irma           
Four: In the Mouth   

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE DISCOURSE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
One: The “Pass”     
Two: The Four Discourses     
Three: The “Discourse of the Master” and Oedipus     
Four: Towards the Place of the Impossible     
Five: The Final Failure    
Six: Encore, Lacan!   

Bibliography
Index

About this book (From "Translator's Foreword")

This book was originally published in Japanese as Lacan’s Psychoanalysis (Rakan no seishin-bunseki), and under that title it is the best-selling and widest-read introduction to Lacan in Japan .  It is my belief, however, that the specific insights it affords into the objet a will make it fruitful reading for a much broader audience than the one it is confined to in Japanese; for this reason, I gladly accepted when Professor Shingu kindly offered me the chance to translate it. 

　Professor Shingu and I have together chosen a new title for the English edition ? Being Irrational: Lacan, the Objet a, and the Golden Mean ? in keeping with the relevance we hope its unique exposition of the objet a in particular will hold for an English-reading audience.  The objet a is a seminal notion in Lacan’s thought, and Bruce Fink has justifiably remarked that an entire book would be required to explain it fully.  While Being Irrational is not a systematic exposition of all the different formulations that have been given to the objet a, it is, in a sense, just such a book.  It is ground-breaking in that it develops a hint from Seminar XX (along with a few pieces of algebra from Seminar XVII) to the effect that “the objet a is the golden mean”, and makes of this notion a key to Lacan’s entire theoretical edifice.  This is the “being irrational” (or “irrational being”) of the title.  As we see in Chapters III and V, it is “irrational” both in the ordinary everyday sense of the word ? emotional, and not amenable to “logical” understanding ? and also numerically: the golden mean is an irrational number.

　In addition to the change of title, various other changes were also made in the course of the translation.  Quotations, theoretical concepts, and details from Lacan’s biography have been sourced.  References to Japanese culture that would be lost on an outside audience in their original condensed form have been expanded.  The translator and author have also co-operated to modify the text slightly in places, to make it read smoothly in English.  In achieving the latter aim, we decided to move paragraph divisions in places, and we have also introduced some introductory and conclusory sections at the beginning and end of structural units such as chapters and sections.  All such changes were made with the author’s careful approval.  In the few cases where changes bear on content, or where substantial passages were added, the fact is noted.

■Aout the author and the translator
Shingu Kazushige is a psychiatrist, and Professor of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He was recipient of the Suntory Award for Academic and Cultural Works in 2000, and has also received the Research Award of the Japan Society of Pathography. His major research interests are: the unconscious structure of psychopathological experiences; the relationship of psychopathology to creative activities; and the psychosocial import of dreaming. He is the author and co-author of many books on clinical psychiatry and psychoanalysis, and has long been engaged in the development of Lacanian theory and clinical practice in Japan, particularly as the Japanese secretary of the Groupe franco-japonais in the Champ freudien, which is led by Judith Miller.

Michael Radich comes from New Zealand, and is currently a Ph.D. student in Chinese Buddhism a nd intellectual history at Harvard University. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Amanda Jack, and their daughters,。