News – October 2011
The latest edition of The Symptom, the free online journal of Lacan.com, is now up on the site. Number 12 includes selected translations from the Lacan Quotidien news service,...
Special Appeal – Free Rafah Nached
UPDATE WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2011: RAFAH NACHED HAS BEEN FREED. Announced on French-language news site Lacan Quotidien this evening: Rafah Nached is free! After having been informed that...
News – September 2011
Friday 9th September marks the 30th anniversary of Lacan’s death. In commemoration, a number of events are being organised in France this month. You can find a summary of...
News – August 2011
Birkbeck, University of London, is now accepting enrolments for its short course ‘An Introduction to Lacan’ which starts in January. Full details and how to sign up: http://bit.ly/nHgqse Lacanian...
News – July 2011
Lacanian psychoanalyst Darian Leader on Anders Behring Breivik and the logic of madness: http://bit.ly/mZ5M4a Registration is now open for the VIII Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, which...
What Does Lacan Say About… Resistance?
Where does resistance come from? The first question we have to ask about resistance is a very simple one: where exactly does resistance come from? In 1953, at...
Three ways to understand the subject of the statement and the subject of the enunciation
This article will examine the concepts of the subject of the statement and the subject of the enunciation, the relationship between them, and look at three examples of where...
Henry Krutzen’s Index of Lacan’s Seminar
For English-speaking students of Lacan’s work it is unfortunate how little this book is known. This short post attempts to rectify that by giving a shout-out for Krutzen’s marvellous...
What Does Lacan Say About… Acting Out?
We might begin by asking how it is that ‘acting out’ has come to be given the status of a concept in psychoanalysis? This is a valid question to...
Three Non-Lacanian Authors That Every Lacanian Should Read
There is no shortage of former Freudians who have abandoned the field and turned their talents to writing testimonies against Freudianism or psychoanalysis in general. Often these are semi-autobiographical...