TY - BOOK AU - Eyers,Tom TI - Lacan and the concept of the 'Real' SN - 9781349439164 AV - BF175.4.P45 EYE PY - 2012/// PB - Palgrave Macmillan, KW - Psychoanalysis and philosophy KW - Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 KW - Realism KW - Reality KW - Psychological aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements Introduction : Approaching the Real The Imaginary and the Real The Symbolic and the Real Space and the Real Psychopathology and the Real Lacanian Materialism? Conclusion N2 - Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Philosophers and political theorists have engaged Lacan's concept of the 'Real' in particular, with Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou deriving profound philosophical and political consequences from what is the most difficult of Lacan's ideas. This is the first book in English to explore in detail the genesis and consequences of Lacan's concept of the 'Real', providing readers with an invaluable key to one of the most influential ideas of modern times ER -