Part 1: Close Up Radio Spotlights Lacanian Psychoanalyst Ellie Ragland

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Columbia, MO - Ellie Ragland is a psychoanalyst who is renowned for her expertise in Jacques Lacan’s rethinking and reorienting of Psychoanalysis which Freud discovered and named as such in 1896 in “Heredity and the Aetiology of the Neuroses” (SE, vol. III). Ragland began to read Lacan in 1972 when a colleague returned from France and threw two volumes of the Ùcrits on her desk. In Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis (1986), Ragland published the first book in the Anglophone world elucidating the theories Lacan’s teaching set forth. Other notable books by Ragland include Lacan and the Subject of Language,Essays on the Pleasures of Death: From Freud to Lacan, Critical Essays on JACQUES LACAN, Lacan: Topologically Speaking, TheLogic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan, Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure: Topology and language in psychoanalysis. She is currently finishing Lacan and Hysteria: The Logic of Paradox, forthcoming in two volumes: This book lays out a large critique of the DSM system (1952-2022), as well as presenting Lacan’s logic of the structure of hysteria, one of the four discourse structures he named. Ragland also edited the first English-language journal on Lacan, Newsletter of theFreudian Field and a second one, (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies. Today, Ragland continues to write and practice and remains a key figure in the future of psychoanalytic thought and praxis. For more information about Ellie Ragland, please visit https://english.missouri.edu/people/ragland