Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news
New Publications
Lacan on the Road: A Guide to His Talks, Lectures, and Interviews Away from the Seminar by Dan Collins has just been published as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. Its focus is on the vast number of lectures, talks, and interviews that Lacan gave away from Paris, the home of his Seminar. Often these were to an audience very different to the one he met in Paris, and so Lacan’s delivery changed in style, tone and rhetoric. We find many ‘deep cuts’ from Lacan’s teaching covered in this book, showing the crucial turning points in Lacan’s thinking where one idea began to transition into another. Collins charts the ways in which we often find Lacan expressing more clearly his ideas at points where they are still being crystallised than in their more formal presentation in the Ecrits or psychoanalytic journals.
A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity: The Metapsychology of Willy Apollon edited by Lucie Cantin, Jeffrey S. Librett, and Tracy McNulty is newly-released from State University of New York Press and explores the contributions of the Haitian-Quebecois Lacanian analyst and philosopher. Perhaps best known for his pioneering work in treating psychosis at the 388 in Quebec (which sadly closed its doors in March 2025), this collection comprises new texts by Apollon, an interview with him, and seven original essays authored by his long-time co-workers at the 388 and GIFRIC, Lucie Cantin and Danielle Bergeron. The papers offer meditations on the place of the human subject in an age of globalised cultural conflict, and a renovation of Freudian-Lacanian understandings of the unconscious, the RSI-triad, sexuation, the transference, and the symptom.
Psychoanalysing Mind-Body Narratives through Beckett and Artaud: The Trauma of the Body by Sarah Meehan O’Callaghan is published by Routledge and looks at the works of these two giants of twentieth century theatre from a Lacanian perspective. With the fundamental premise that “there is a traumatic and alienating dimension to embodiment that resists expression within representational systems and is core to the being of any subject”, it explores this thesis in three parts. Firstly, in terms of an epistemology of the body, proposing that the body always represents a gap in knowledge. Secondly, looking at Artaud and Beckett’s respective works in particular through a psychoanalytic lens. Thirdly, considering the ontological questions of the body and how it sits between being and non-being. The book combines Lacanian psychoanalysis with the body, disability studies, and literary and theatre studies.
A new Lacanian journal, Pas tout, has recently launched out of Copenhagen and Berlin. It is available online and the July contributions include an essay ‘Unwilling Revolt, or The Politics of Psychoanalysis’ by writer and philosopher on psychoanalysis Aaron Schuster, whose interview was also published for the journal last month.
For the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society Joseph S. Reynoso has published a Lacanian take on sport fandom, ‘We were robbed: the sport of stealing enjoyment.’ This essay theorizes how libidinal ties within groups are affectively sourced by fantasies of rival groups stealing enjoyment (jouissance). Using Lacanian ideas, it examines how sport fandom highlights specific ways social bonds depend on emotions and fantasies about the cause, quality and course of collective lack. The distinct space sport occupies allows fans to acknowledge fears and resentments more generally disavowed, regarding not only threats to group identity, but the enjoyment collectively taken in theft.
Upcoming Events
Starting 15th August, Jason Childs and Derek Hook will be launching an online seminar on Lacanian Diagnostic Structures and Clinical Technique. The application deadline has been extended till 12th August, and the course will run up to mid-December. This seminar promises to offer clinicians and trainees a unique opportunity to move beyond an introductory or schematic comprehension of Lacanian diagnosis and toward actually implementing it in their work. Applications to join are open now. The seminar will be divided into four main modules, each running for five weeks and focused respectively on hysteria, obsession, perversion, and psychosis. Individual sessions, taught alternately by Derek Hook and Jason Childs, will involve sustained, accessible discussion of theoretical questions and detailed explorations of clinical literature, including Freud’s major case studies and contemporary Lacanian case studies. The concluding week of each module will consist of a workshop, led jointly by Hook and Childs, focused on clinical material provided by the participants or, where this is not available, by the instructors.
On Sun 16th August, Lacan Tehran will welcome Dr Dominique Fingermann for a seminar titled ‘How Does a Psychoanalysis Begin?’ She will ask, if an analysis is to reach its end – and perhaps produce an analyst – what change of discourse first makes its beginning possible? The event is free and open to all interested in psychoanalysis. It will be held in English with simultaneous translation to Persian. More details on the poster via the link above.
Beginning Fri 21st August, Lacan Tehran will also be offering a 12-week online course studying Lacan’s Seminar X: Anxiety. This course offers a close reading of one of Lacan’s most influential seminars, where anxiety is approached not as an emotion or psychiatric symptom, but as a privileged clinical sign that reveals the subject’s relation to desire, jouissance, the object a, and the Real. The seminar follows the development of Lacan’s argument from the structure of anxiety, through the status of the object a, to questions of love, the gaze, the voice, and the Name-of-the-Father. Alongside the weekly reading of Seminar X, participants will attend presentations by international psychoanalysts from the IF-EPFCL, with opportunities for discussion and clinical dialogue. The course concludes with a live international seminar dedicated to Lacan’s Seminar X. Topics include: anxiety within the symbolic network; the object a and the cause of desire; anxiety between jouissance and desire; love, the gaze, and the voice; the Name-of-the-Father and clinical implications; and contemporary clinical applications of Seminar X. The course convenor is Bita Riazati Psychoanalyst, Psychologist in Melbourne Australia, member of Colorado Analytic Forum (International Forums of the Lacanian Field IF-EPFCL). 9 of the classes are conducted in Persian, and 3 of the classes are conducted in English by other members of the International Forums with simultaneous Persian translation, making it accessible to both Persian- and English-speaking participants. For registration and enquiries, contact Lacantehran@proton.me.
Also on 21st August, the Lacan Circle of Australia will welcome NLS President Eric Zuliani for a public lecture on ‘Psychoanalysis and the Institution.’ The talk will be in-person, online and recorded, beginning at 7pm AEST (UTC+10). Find your local start time here.
From September, the 2026-2027 program of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis will commence, including 15 seminars and reading groups, many of which are offered online and open to the public. Registration is now open. LSP will also be hosting Stephanie Swales and Derek Hook for a workshop entitled “Working with Masochism” on Sunday, September 6th. Event details and registration can be found here.
Beginning in October, a Workshop for a Clinic of Psychosis will be run through the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, inviting participants to collaborate in imagining future psychoanalytic clinics of psychosis. Guided by an ethics that respects speech and understands that results follow from it, it asks: What can be built, and with what tools? Over the course of fourteen meetings from October through April, it will explore central themes involved in establishing and sustaining clinics of psychosis. Guest presenters confirmed so far include: Felix Acuña Olivos (formerly Rayo); Barri Belnap, MD; Hannah Bennett; Marisa Berwald; Loren Dent (Constellations); Gardner Fair; Bret Fimiani; Daniel Garcia (The MendCenter); Christopher Meyer; Matthew Oyer (Constellations); Richard Reinhardt (Openings); Annie Rogers. Full details via the link above.
New Videos and Podcasts
Plenty of new Lacanian content worth checking out across YouTube and podcasts last month. Beginning with Derek Hook’s latest YouTube videos, and the final part of his series on Lacan’s great paper on obsession, ‘The Neurotic’s Individual Myth’. Here Hook discusses the third part of the paper in which Lacan comments on an anecdote from the life of Goethe. Hook has also begun a new series on Lacan’s concept of desire, with the first part now available on YouTube.
Meanwhile, Samuel McCormick’s Lectures on Lacan series turns to Seminar XXIII, and the first lecture – Captivating Bodies – is now available on YouTube and via his Substack. Starting soon is his series on Seminar XXIV, Lacan’s title for which is infamously difficult to translate into English but which is here presented as Love Is the Failure of the Unbewoops. More details, including the schedule and a link to the text, are here.
The Introduction to Psychoanalysis course from the RU Center for Psychoanalysis turned to Lacan last month. Watch the full lecture on the Substack; a sample is available on YouTube.
Tim Themi and Bryan Counter discuss Desire & The Real: Sade, Lacan, Bataille for the Hermitix podcast last month. They cover Lacan’s tricky paper ‘Kant with Sade’ from the Ecrits, how Sade represents a break from the Enlightenment and helps us understand modernism, and Themi’s forthcoming book on perversion.
New Resources
More new translations of rare analytic texts abound on Freud2Lacan.com. The past month’s updates include Paul Nizan’s 1933 review of Lacan’s doctoral thesis (number 44 on the Lacan page), and Ramon Fernandez’s text ‘Freud and Moral Philosophy’ (number 30 on the Lacan page). Fernandez was a Parisian intellectual who was friends with Lacan as well as luminaries like T.S. Eliot, Proust, and Gide. A translation of Lacan and Benveniste’s 1955 paper Psychanalyse et Linguistique is due to be uploaded in early August (currently being worked on, its place is held at number 106 on the Lacan page).
Got news? Get in touch.
Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news
