Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis

Looks at Lacanian psychoanalysis in a clinical context. Benvenuto looks at the way in which the Ancient Mysteries, the unveiling of the phallus, prefigure discoveries in Lacanian psychoanalysis about the symbol, the feminine and the sacred.

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This book looks at Lacanian psychoanalysis in the context of the clinic. Drawing on her 12 years of clinical practice, Bice Benvenuto offers an exciting and undiscovered Lacan, who helps make sense of our symptoms and our lives. Dr Benvenuto's approach to Lacan in the clinic highlights the way in which the Ancient Mysteries, the unveiling of the Phallus, prefigure discoveries in Lacanian psychoanalysis about the symbol, the feminine and the sacred. Benvenuto brings both the clinical and the symbolic threads together in a theory of feminine sexuality which takes up where Lacan drew the veil. This book should appeal to students, academics and practitioners in psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and feminist studies, psychology, philosophy and anyone interested in the practical application of Lacan's work.