Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
10 minute video introducing Lacan’s theory of anxiety as the sensation of the desire of the Other, through the story of the praying mantis he tells in Seminars IX and X, and the example of childhood phobia. By Owen Hewitson, LacanOnline.com All content on LacanOnline.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
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LacanOnline visitors get 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles. Use this link and the discount code on that page at the checkout. Beginning with new books coming out in the next month, and the English translation of Lacan’s Seminar VI – ‘Desire and its Interpretation’ – was released in the UK […]
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LacanOnline visitors get 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles. Use this link and the discount code on that page at the checkout. Beginning with the latest and forthcoming publications, Ian Parker’s Psychoanalysis, Clinic and Context: Subjectivity, History and Autobiography was released in April. Based on his experiences as an analyst and […]
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LacanOnline visitors get 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles. Use this link and the discount code on that page at the checkout. Beginning with the latest and upcoming publications, March saw the release of a new collection edited by Daniela Garofalo and David Sigler on Lacan and Romanticism. Published by SUNY, […]
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In Part I we looked at the history of trauma theory and framed its various debates against the backdrop of two key problems that any theory of trauma has to confront: the ‘event’ and its ‘affective weight’. Problem 1: The Event – if a certain event or experience is often sought at the aetiology of […]
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A special offer from Routledge to all LacanOnline.com visitors – from now and until further notice LacanOnline.com readers will get a 20% discount and free global shipping on all titles. Use this link and enter the discount code S031 at the checkout. Routledge has a huge catalogue of psychoanalytic publications, with recent Lacanian releases including: […]
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Trauma often appears to be a very broadly-spread notion in psychotherapy. Its urgency in clinical settings seems to outpace the theoretical rigour we can give it, leading the label ‘trauma’ to have been been ascribed to all kinds of experience, from birth, to sex, war, and even to love. Moreover, it sometimes seems that the […]
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Among new books released last month was the collection Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious, edited by Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian. Refuting the accusation that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy, it shows how psychoanalytic principles are applied successfully to disenfranchised Latino populations. This published collection follows the […]
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Newly-published by Routledge last month was Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam, a new volume edited by Ian Parker and Sabah Siddiqui. It follows the 2017 international conference organised by the College of Psychoanalysts UK, Islamic Psychoanalysis/Psychoanalytic Islam, of which Parker is current President. This book unites authors from different psychoanalytic traditions who work at the […]
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Plenty of new books published in the last month, due for release before the end of the year, or newly-announced for the first half of 2019. In November, writer and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster’s latest book, Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis was published by Columbia University Press last month. Borrowing its title from […]
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