Lacan keyword-suffering constructions of community and the

constructions of community and the growth of neoliberalism

Ethical questions dominate current political and academic agendas

Ever since the First World War

art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit

Lacan keyword-suffering constructions of community and theJacques Lacan is the foremost psychoanalytic theorist after Freud. Revolutionising the study of social relations, his work has been a major influence on political theory, philosophy, literature and the arts, but his thought has so far been studied without a serious investigation of its foundations. Just what are the influences on his thinking, so crucial to its proper understanding? In Lacan: The Silent Partners Slavoj iek, the maverick theorist and