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The Short Session

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 4, 2010      Blog     5 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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What Does Lacan Say About… The Signifier?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       June 20, 2010      Lacan     13 Comments
“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...
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The Case of Sigmund Freud

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 18, 2010      Freud     No Comment
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,...
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What Does Lacan Say About… Affects?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 9, 2010      Lacan     6 Comments
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...
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What Does Lacan Say About… Deja Vu?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 9, 2010      Lacan     3 Comments
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...
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What Does Lacan Say About… Desire?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 9, 2010      Lacan     36 Comments
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...
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Lacan’s ‘My Teaching’: A Review

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 8, 2010      Lacan     10 Comments
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...
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Reading… Seminar III, Chapter II – The Meaning of Delusion

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 8, 2010      Lacan     1 Comment
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...
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Reading… Seminar III, Chapter I – Introduction to the Question of the Psychoses

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 7, 2010      Lacan     2 Comments
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...
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Reading… Seminar II, Chapter XIV – The Dream of Irma’s Injection (conclusion)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 7, 2010      Lacan     No Comment
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...
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LacanOnline.com is a site for exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan

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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