Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) came to psychoanalysis by way of medicine and psychiatry. In 1951 he turned his attention to the training of analysts, and this was one of the issues which led him and his circle to part company with the Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He became, in 1953, the first President of a new group, the Société Française de Psychanalyse, whose declared aim was a return to the true teaching of Freud. Eleven years later the Société Française was dissolved and, under Lacan's direction, gave birth to the École Freudienne de Paris. Jacques Lacan was a practising psychoanalyst and teacher up until his death in 1981.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIV: The Logic of Phantasy
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVIII: On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis
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Jacques Lacan: Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst 1971-1972
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XX: Encore
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From an Other to the other, Book XVI
Sollers once wrote that, to him, Claudel was first and foremost the man who wrote, “Paradise is around us at this very moment, all its forests attentive like a great orchestra that invisibly adores... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVI: From an Other to the Other
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Desire and its Interpretation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book VI
What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVII: Psychoanalysis Upside-Down
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Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment
The main text is a transcript of a provocative filmed interview with Lacan. The interviewer, J-A Miller, poses questions often asked by those outside the Lacanian mileau. The second half contains... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VIII: Transference
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...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX
"A chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella. The impossible face-off between a whale and a polar bear. One was devised by Lautréamont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60
Includes discussion of the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, and the essence of tragedy.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan I: Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54
Includes discussion of the role of the imaginary, resistance, the ideal ego and ego ideal, and the function of speech in psychoanalysis.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan X: Anxiety
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XXIII: Joyce and the Sinthome 1975-1976
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On the Names-of-the-Father
What astonishing success The Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and... (more)
The Triumph of Religion
'I am the product of priests', Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the... (more)
Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English
Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law and enjoyment. This new translation of his... (more)
First Writings
Before he became an analyst, Lacan was a psychiatrist. The articles in the present volume would not be being republished if they didn’t invite us to read them retroactively. What can they teach us... (more)
Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book V
'When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who... (more)
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... (more)
The Seminar of Jaques Lacan Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
Revolutionary and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference and enjoyment. This new translation of Lacan's deliberation... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIX: ...Ou Pire/...Or Worse 1971-1972
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Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book X
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In this new translation of Anxiety, he explores the... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VI: Desire and its Interpretation
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