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 Lacan’s three decades of teaching. Six Paradigms of Jouissance – published here in a new translation – helps us locate the core question in both theory and clinical practice: the relation between signifier and jouissance.

In Milanese Intuitions and A Fantasy (in new and revised translations respectively) Miller clarifies how Lacan’s work meets the subjectivity of our time by turning over (and over) the question of the unconscious and politics. Each text, in its own way, reminds us of the necessity of reconceptualising and reinventing psychoanalytic practice in the era of globalisation ... and beyond…