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Todd McGowan, "The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

New Books in Psychology

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The Objet a: Cause, Not Object, of Desire

Todd explains Lacan's objet a as the slight barrier that makes an object desirable and gives examples from attraction and consumer culture.

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