Alice's Adventures in Lacan-Land: Demystifying Lacanian Psychoanalysis

by Ali Yansori

Overview

Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.

Bringing concepts of “reality”, “truth”, and “knowledge” under scrutiny, and assuming no prior knowledge of the original Alice books on the reader’s part, Ali Yansori looks at the treacherous nature of language. He addresses questions about identity formation, touching on concepts including the “Imaginary”, “alienation”, and the “ego”. Finally, the author considers the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for both the individual and society and critiques contemporary approaches to therapy, higher education, and other spheres of life.

Alice’s Adventures in Lacan-Land will be an essential book for anyone encountering Lacan for the first time. It will also be of interest to more experienced readers seeking to engage with lesser-explored yet vital aspects of Lacanian theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040401255
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/21/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184

About the Author

Ali Yansori is a philosopher and musicologist and is an assistant professor in aesthetics at Palacký University Olomouc. His interests include mysticism (most notably Persian Sufism), existentialism, late Romanticism, and ethics as an art of living.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction

Exposition

Exposition: Alice's Adventures in Lacan-Land

First Development: Language

1. Psychoanalysis's Uncharted Territory

2. Language, Langugage, Everywhere: The Demarcation Problem

3. Existential Implications

Second Development: The Self

4. The Self: Language's Most Important Product

5. The Mirror Stage

Recapitulation: Implications for the Individual and Society

6. Beyond Speech

7. Art as Salvation: A Quick Dive into Contemporary Issues References