Raymond Radiguet

Alan Sheridan

"The beauty and despair of lovers attempting to save something for themselves."--Pauline Kael

The Devil in the Flesh

Agota Kristof

Sent to a remote village for the duration of the war, two children devise physical and mental exercises to render themselves invulnerable to pain and sentiment. They steal, kill, blackmail and survive; others - the cobbler, the harelipped girl who craves love, the children's parents - are sucked into war's brutal maelstrom.

The Notebook

Georges Balandier

Political Anthropology

Sheridan presents a literary biography of one of the most important writers of the 20th century--an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man, whose work was deeply and inextricably entangled with his life. 35 halftones.

A Life in the Present

André Gide

Jacques Lacan

Jacques-Alain Miller

Dr. Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the legacy bequeathed by Freud. "The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis" is based on a year's seminar, which is of particular importance because he was addressing a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted "to introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on which psycho-analysis is based," namely, the unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive. This particular seminar, in this particular edition, has often been used as the basic text for Anglo-American scholars and students alike seduced by the possibilities inherent in Lacanian psycho-analysis. In particular, notions of the gaze and ruminations on the role of subjectivity in two-dimensional representations have been adopted wholesale by spheres of film studies, art history, and visual studies. By default, Alan Sheridan, through this translation, has been key in the reception of Lacan in the Anglo-American academy. Alas, particularly for visual studies, a key phrase in this edition differs significantly from the French edition. An internet search proves that both versions of this phrase have been quoted equally in North American scholarly writings. While arguments could be made as to the apt-ness of continuing to use Sheridan's translation as it exists - and we at Parasitic Ventures Press considered the possibility of presenting one such - we offer, instead, this edition, an Erratum of The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, to allow our readers to decide for themselves.

Erratum of The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis

Michel Foucault

The Birth of the Prison

Discipline and Punish

The Notebook. The Proof. The Third Lie

Three Novels

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth

First published in 1980 by Tavistock Publications, Ltd.

Alan Sheridan

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