It is certain that in his "retour à Freud", Jacques Lacan did not turn psychoanalysis into an easier, more accessible or in any sense reassuring discourse. It is certain as well that his ...

His passion got him into scraps with the Paris Metro and numerous other bodies. Was it a social crutch? A Freudian response to his father? And why did he take such delight in writing to the Guardian ...

Franz Kafka, the Prague-born writer whose work gave modern literature some of its most enduring images of alienation and exclusion, would have recognised the violence of the name before he recognised ...