News – April 2014
April saw the ninth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis gather in Paris to explore the theme ‘A Real for the 21st Century’. Helpfully, Radio Lacan has recordings...
News – March 2014
Periodically, Freud comes back into fashion as a new wave of thinkers from a variety of disparate disciplines ‘rediscover’ and apply his work to their respective fields. And so...
Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (IV)
Lesson 4 – The Value of Stupid Questions “There is nothing more interesting for us than stultae questiones ” – Lacan, Seminar XIII, 2nd February 1966. If a...
News – February 2014
As Elisabeth Roudinesco notes in the introduction to her new work – Lacan: In Spite of Everything – publication of which was brought forward last month, it is as...
Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (III)
Lesson 3 – Surprise, Punctuation, Pace, Silence When psychoanalysis was still in its infancy there were a lot of people interested in practicing it. They wanted to train as...
News – January 2014
The World Association of Psychoanalysis has announced the launch of Radio Lacan, which began broadcasting on 3rd February. The first podcast was from the École de la Cause Freudienne...
The Deepest Secret
In The Question of Lay Analysis from 1926, Freud imagined himself being asked by an ‘Impartial Person’ whether psychoanalysis is a confession. He imagines the following question being thrown...
News – December 2013
Publications Heralding the WAP (World Association of Psychoanalysis) Congress in Paris in April this year, December saw the publication of Editions 9 and 10 of What’s Up, the WAP’s...
Lacan avec Funakoshi
From the symptom to the sinthome The title of this short article will resonate with readers of the Écrits,but rather than Kant or Sade here I am going to...
Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (II)
Lesson 2 – “Everyone wants to give you something, you just have to figure out what it is”. Let’s start this article not with Lacan but with this guy:...