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...
What Does Lacan Say About… The Signifier?
“That there are in the unconscious signifying chains which subsist as such, and which from there structure, act on the organism, influence what appears from the outside as a...
The Case of Sigmund Freud
This documentary was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the autumn of 2000 to mark the centenary of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams. As Freud scholars often remind us,...
What Does Lacan Say About… Affects?
The context – a lack of theoretical work on affects by the post-Freudians Most Lacanian writers commenting on affect note the fact that Lacan is often criticised by other...
What Does Lacan Say About… Deja Vu?
In The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Freud links the experience of déjà vu to unconscious fantasies. Rather than focusing on ‘here and now’ of the person’s physical or mental state, or...
What Does Lacan Say About… Desire?
Our desires are not our own, they are the Other’s There are two relatively straightforward ways in which we can understand one of Lacan’s most well-known maxims, that “Man’s...
Lacan’s ‘My Teaching’: A Review
Lacan’s My Teaching: A Review An abridged version of this paper was published in the Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 7: Lacan and Critical Psychology, which is available in...
Reading… Seminar III, Chapter II – The Meaning of Delusion
Seminar III – The Psychoses 1955 – 1956 Chapter II – The Meaning of Delusion (All quotations refer to The Psychoses, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated...
Reading… Seminar III, Chapter I – Introduction to the Question of the Psychoses
Seminar III – The Psychoses 1955 – 1956 Chapter I – Introduction to the Question of the Psychoses (All quotations refer to The Psychoses, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Edited by Jacques-Alain...
Reading… Seminar II, Chapter XIV – The Dream of Irma’s Injection (conclusion)
Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter XIV – The Dream of Irma’s Injection (conclusion) (All quotations refer to The...