Concerning the Rites of Psychoanalysis: Or the Villa of the Mysteries

This is the first book that looks at Lacanian psychoanalysis in the context of the clinic. Drawing on her twelve years of clinical practice, Bice Benvenuto offers an exciting and undiscovered Lacan, who helps make sense of our symptoms and our lives. Benvenuto brings both the clinical and the symbolic threads together in a new theory of feminine sexuality which takes up where Lacan drew the veil. This book will appeal to students, academics and practitioners in psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and feminist studies, psychology and philosophy, and anyone interested in the practical application of Lacan's work. Bice Benvenuto is a Lacanian psychoanalyst, a member of the École Européene de Psychanalyse, the founder and former director of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.