In Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud, Philippe Julien addresses Lacan's work in its entirety from a historical perspective. He proposes that Lacan's thinking evolved (or more accurately re-volved) in three stages, each representing a different interrelationship among the three orders of the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real. The subtitle of the book, The Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary, suggests that the imaginary occupies a key position in the last stage of Lacan's thought. For each stage, Julien also reveals how the shift in emphasis reorders the clinical priorities of the analytic situation. Careful study of this very difficult book will, in the words of the preface, “challenge the reader to submit to the