Rousselle's efforts must be applauded and his originality celebrated, for he has brought together disciplines-philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis-that do not always make for intellectual bedfellows. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals.

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Rousselle carefully constructs his argument about a 'first order real' that is distinct from the second order 'symbolic real' for which Lacan is better known. He thereby opens up a number of productive connections with recent developments in continental philosophy, such as the set-theoretical ontology of Alain Badiou and the anti-Correlational 'Speculative Realism' of his student, Quentin Meillassoux. To Rousselle's credit, at the same time to he keeps in view clinical questions relating to psychic structures, principally obsessional neurosis and hysteria.

Colin Wright, Associate Professor of Critical Theory, University of Nottingham, UK

Lacanian Realism is a timely theoretical intervention into a continental philosophical debate, passionately 'demanding the impossible' by positioning the Lacanian Real within three respective fields, namely, clinical and metaphysical thought, radical political theory, and mathematics... An important contribution to the fields of continental philosophy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, feminism, and posthumanism.

Chyatat Supachalasai, Lecturer in Political Theory and International Relations, Suan Dusit University, Thailand