Gains and Risks of Bridging the Seemingly Unbridgeable

Conceptually, Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan is an impressive text, offering both a comparative analysis of Kleinian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, which are generally considered to be incommensurable, and presenting a dialogue between the two authors, one strongly based in Lacanian theory, the other much closer to Kleinian psychoanalysis. Its ambition is to trace the influence these two psychoanalysts had for the broadly conceptualized critical theory, as well as to suggest some ways in which this encounter can and should be more productive.