What Does Lacan Say About… The End, And Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part II)
For Part I click here The psychoanalyst as incarnation of object a The shift from Seminar X Around the time of Seminar X in 1963 there is a big...
What Does Lacan Say About… The End, and Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part I)
Introductory Remarks The first question we have to confront is a terminological one: in what sense do we mean the ‘end of a psychoanalysis’? This phrase could refer...
Henry Krutzen’s Index of Lacan’s Seminar
For English-speaking students of Lacan’s work it is unfortunate how little this book is known. This short post attempts to rectify that by giving a shout-out for Krutzen’s marvellous...
What Does Lacan Say About… Acting Out?
We might begin by asking how it is that ‘acting out’ has come to be given the status of a concept in psychoanalysis? This is a valid question to...
Three Non-Lacanian Authors That Every Lacanian Should Read
There is no shortage of former Freudians who have abandoned the field and turned their talents to writing testimonies against Freudianism or psychoanalysis in general. Often these are semi-autobiographical...
What Does Lacan Say About… The Mirror Stage? – Part I
This is the first of two articles looking at the theory of the mirror stage in Lacan’s work. This first part looks at the presentation of the mirror stage...
What Does Lacan Say About… Rhetoric?
The Lacanian maxims that psychoanalysis is a practice based on speech, and that the unconscious is structured like a language, are now so classical that they are almost boring. Elsewhere...
New site, fantastic resource: LacaninIreland.com
As I was looking up references to rhetoric in Lacan’s work for a post I am planning to write on the subject I stumbled upon this site: http://www.lacaninireland.com. For...
What is Psychoanalysis?
How would you answer the question ‘What is psychoanalysis?’ For anyone interested in psychoanalysis, having to explain concisely what psychoanalysis is and what it involves can elicit more than...
The Short Session
The problem that this blog post seeks to address is quite simple: what is the rationale for the short session as practiced in Lacanian psychoanalysis? Or to put it...