Forrester, John

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FORRESTER, John

FORRESTER, John. British, b. 1949. Genres: Psychiatry, History. Career: Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, reader in history and philosophy of the science, 1984-. Publications: Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis, 1980; (trans.) Jacques Lacan, The Seminars of Jacques Lacan: Freud's Writings on Technique 1953-1954, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, Book I, 1988; The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, and Derrida, 1990; (with L. Appignanesi) Freud's Women, 1992; Dispatches from the Freud Wars, 1997. Address: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RH, England.

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