The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis.  Jacques Lacan.  Edited by 
Jacques-Alain Miller.  Translated from the French by Alan Sheridan.  New York: W.W. 
Norton, 1978, 290 pp.

[Reviewed by Robert M. Cutler (http://www.robertcutler.org) in Political Psychology, 
vol. 2, no. 1 (Spring 1980): 83-84.]

This is a difficult, significant book.  It is difficult because it is a transcription 
of lectures by a Frenchman who was trying to speak Freud's native language to a French 
audience.  Lacan's French resembles German because he is a radical psychoanalyst, one 
who wishes to return to the roots in Freud, to reformulate Freud's insights, to 
reemphasize the unconscious is a field of psychoanalytic concern.  The unconscious is 
one of the four fundamental concepts referred to in the title.  The others are 
repetition, the transference, and the drive.

These lectures are probably chosen for translation because they were originally