Death by Analysis: Another Adventure From Inspector Canal's New York Agency (The Karnac Library)

A stunning young analyst-in-training keels over dead in front of three hundred guests at her Institute’s annual conference. It looks like murder. But initial inquiries suggest she was liked by one and all: her teachers, supervisors, fellow-students, and even patients. New York’s finest are forced to call upon Inspector Canal, an allegedly former French secret serviceman now living in Manhattan (loosely based on the inimitable Parisian psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan), to penetrate the calm demeanor of the dead woman’s professional entourage.

More daring than ever, changing identities and donning the most unlikely of disguises before, during, and even after a mad Halloween party, Canal feels his way through a minefield of denials and dissimulations, trying not to trigger any further detonations. As in his previous escapades, the Frenchman gets caught up in the misadventures of Eros while attempting to solve age-old and newer forms of crimes of the heart, grappling with the biggest mysteries of them all: love and death.

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France for seven years with and is now a member of the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris, and obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). He served as Professor of Psychology from 1993 to 2013 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is currently an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. He is the author of six books on Lacan, The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance, A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique, Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely, Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners, and Against Understanding: Commentary, Cases, and Critique in a Lacanian Key, 2 volumes. Fink is also a translator of Lacan's work into English. His translation of Seminar XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, was published in 1998, and his translation of Lacan's magum opus Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English came out in 2006; the latter was awarded the 2007 nonfiction translation prize by the French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation.