What is Repression? (Part I)

Owen Hewitson October 1, 2019 What is Repression? (Part I)2019-10-02T06:54:42+01:00 4 Comments

Part I of a short series of videos introducing the concept of repression in psychoanalysis, beginning with Lacan’s interview to the French magazine L’Express in 1957.

Link to the interview: https://www.lacanonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Interview-with-Jacques-Lacan-LExpress-1957.pdf

By Owen Hewitson, LacanOnline.com

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Derek - October 20th, 2019 at 1:00 pm none Comment author #1899 on What is Repression? (Part I) by LACANONLINE.COM

Really terrific explanation Owen! This will be ‘prescribed viewing’ for all the students I work with in Lacan teaching contexts. HUGELY appreciated!
Glenda - January 24th, 2020 at 10:34 pm none Comment author #2195 on What is Repression? (Part I) by LACANONLINE.COM

So can repression manifest chronic body pain, fibromyalgia, arthritis as somatic symptoms? If so what needs to happen to connect the splitting and release, relieve the symptoms?
Lauri Yli-Pohja - June 4th, 2020 at 9:46 pm none Comment author #4205 on What is Repression? (Part I) by LACANONLINE.COM

I have read some of your (Owen) articles in this site and also listened to your enlinghtning explanation of the graph of desire. I have liked them all. This one I tried to listen but in the background there is a music playing wich is rather disturbing and I had to stop the tape, unfortunately, because the subject is very interesting and I really would liked to hear it all.
DIKSHA CHANDRA - September 27th, 2020 at 8:14 pm none Comment author #6006 on What is Repression? (Part I) by LACANONLINE.COM

Thank you so much for this video, Owen!

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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.

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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.

What is Repression? (Part I)

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