Lacanian Psychoanalysis Books
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIV: The Logic of Phantasy
From unedited French manuscripts (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis
From unedited French manuscripts
Jacques Lacan: Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual
From unedited French manuscripts
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 41: a-Normality
There is an obvious commotion in the field of normality today. For example, the widespread rejection of norms imposed by the Other is reflected in the language of the young, especially on social... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.27: Science and the Real
Jacques-Alain Miller - Psychoanalysis, its place among the sciences
Miquel Bassols - There is no science of the real
Eric Laurent - The illusion of scientism, the anguish of scientists
Marco... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.22: Lacanian Practice
Jacques-Alain Miller - Transference, Repetition and Sexual Real
Dominique Laurent - What is Called Sex
Sonia Chiriaco - The Joke
Jacques-Alain Miller - Marginalia to Constructions in... (more)
Miss-ing: Psychoanalysis 2.0
A collection of essays and pensées from a noted psychoanalyst and Lacanian thinker.
Inspired by Jacques Lacan's idea in his Seminar VI that "Human beings cannot help but consider themselves to... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.30
Roger Litten - Editorial
Jacques-Alain Miller - The Barcelona Seminar on the Paths of Symptom Formation
Éric Laurent - The Pass and the Guarantee in the School
Marie-Hélène Brousse - Sexual... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.24: Subject Supposed to Know
Contents:
Editorial: Natalie Wülfing
Our orientation
Jacques-Alain Miller: Psychoanalysis, the city and communities
Clinical section
Jean-Louis Gault: Chinese Chronicles
1 The... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst 1971-1972
From unedited French manuscripts
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 40: Love Event
The latest issue No 40 of the Psychoanalytical Notebooks is devoted to love and revolves around a term Jacques Lacan introduced in 1973 – “Love Event”. The issue includes, for the first time in our... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.31: Brief Encounters
Editorial, Roger Litten
Political
Judith Miller, The Next Stage of PIPOL
Pierre-Gilles Guéguen, Ten Axioms
Jean-Daniel Matet, New Relations to the Clinic and to... (more)
A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. Each of the... (more)
A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
A lucid introduction to the clinical application of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The book starts with the place of desire in analytic technique, moves on to diagnosis and the position of the analyst, and... (more)
What Does It Mean to Make Love?: A Psychoanalytic Study of Sexuality and Phantasy
What Does It Mean to Make Love? shows how the choice of gender does not conform to anatomy and is based on an often-unrecognised psychic bisexuality.
Everyone chooses a gender by repressing the... (more)
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity
The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan seeks to understand the human sense of smell and its marks on our subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective.
Accessibly written, the book considers... (more)
Clinical Encounters and the Lacanian Analyst: Who's your Dora?
Clinical Encounters and the Lacanian Analyst presents interviews with Lacanian analysts, exploring their professional development and the effects that their patients have had on them.
Dries... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 34: Paradigms of Jouissance
We have compiled a series of three texts selected from Jacques-Alain Miller’s interventions on Lacan’s teaching. This provides reference points to Miller’s trajectory through questions arising from... (more)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 32: Lacanian Politics and the Impasses of Democracy Today
Editorial, Bogdan Wolf
Orthodoxy and Heresy
Jacques-Alain Miller, Heretics
Domenico Cosenza, The Heretic and the Orthodox
Francesca Biagi-Chai, Choice and Its Logic in... (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)
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)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No.23: Our Orientation
Jacques-Alain Miller - At the Coliseum
Carole Dewambrechies-La Sagna - The true anorexia of a young girl
Alfredo Zenoni - When the child is the object
Marie-Hélène Blancard - The uncanny... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VIII: Transference
From unedited French manuscripts
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)
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 42/43: The Point of Anxiety
Everyone senses anxiety is on the rise today. Compared to even a decade ago, it seems both more acute and more widespread, more intense and more banal, to the point of becoming a feature of everyday... (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)
A Reading of Anxiety: Lacan’s Seminar X
A Reading of Anxiety follows the sessions of Lacan’s Seminar X, examining its presentation of the structure of anxiety, step by step.
Christian Fierens considers why and how the structure of... (more)