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What Does Lacan Say About… The End, And Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part II)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 16, 2012      Lacan     3 Comments
  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...
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What Does Lacan Say About… The End, and Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part I)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 15, 2012      Lacan     6 Comments
  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...
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Henry Krutzen’s Index of Lacan’s Seminar

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 30, 2011      Blog     1 Comment
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...
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What Does Lacan Say About… Acting Out?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       December 19, 2010      Lacan     2 Comments
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...
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Three Non-Lacanian Authors That Every Lacanian Should Read

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       December 19, 2010      Blog     4 Comments
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...
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What Does Lacan Say About… The Mirror Stage? – Part I

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       September 13, 2010      Lacan     21 Comments
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...
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What Does Lacan Say About… Rhetoric?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 13, 2010      Lacan     No Comment
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...
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New site, fantastic resource: LacaninIreland.com

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 9, 2010      Blog     1 Comment
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...
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What is Psychoanalysis?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 24, 2010      Blog     No Comment
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...
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The Short Session

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 4, 2010      Blog     2 Comments
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...
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Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, 1901 - 1981.
Trained as a psychiatrist, he abandoned the profession in favour of psychoanalysis in the early thirties. After publishing his paper on the Mirror Stage in 1949, for which he is probably best known to the general public, in the early fifties Lacan embarked on a project he called the 'Return to Freud'.

Lacan began holding yearly seminars, starting in 1952, re-examining Freud's work. At the time, the theory and technique of psychoanalysis was facing a complete overhaul at the hands of post-Freudian psychoanalysts, many of whom had emigrated to the United States after the war. Lacan railed against their teaching of Freud, seeing it as an oversimplification of his work and a corruption of psychoanalytic technique reducing it to the status of life management. Through his seminars he offered another interpretation of Freud's work and psychoanalytic theory. Inventive, radical and adventurous, many still believe Lacan's to be a creative mis-reading of Freud.

However Lacan's seminars grew in popularity and as his teaching developed from a reading of Freud's text to an elaboration of his own concepts his teaching became more influential. Lacan continued to give yearly seminars until the year before his death in 1981. By that time, he had become a major intellectual figure in public life and had both created and disbanded his own school, separating his members both from the established psychoanalytic institutions and from each other.

Today, Lacanian theory is advanced by a number of disparate groupings of his followers and the technique of psychoanalysis he developed is practiced clinically by Lacanian analysts around the world.

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