Writings on psychoanalysis freud and lacan with several never before published writings this volume gathers althussers major essays on psychoanalytic thought documenting his intense and ambivalent relationship with lacan and dramatizing his intellectual journey and troubled personal life. Writings on psychoanalysis freud and lacan european perspectives a series in social thought and cultural criticism author louis althusser editors olivier corpet francois matheron translated. Writings on psychoanalysis is a text that first of all deals with freudian and lacanian theories louis althusser as his later books exhibit elaborates his transformation of lacanian theories probing through the social symptoms as a psychoanalyst does to a patient. Writings on psychoanalysis freud and lacan louis althusser edited by olivier corpet and franois matheron translated by jeff