Author: Owen Hewitson

Among new publications released last month, Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child, a collection under the editorship of Carol Owens and Stephanie Farrelly Quinn, was published by Karnac. Although, as the authors note, there is no “doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children” in Lacan’s work, this collection brings together […]

Published last month by Karnac Books, as part of the CFAR Library, was Luis Izcovich’s The Marks of a Psychoanalysis. Izcovich’s book looks at the effects of analysis, what it changes in someone’s life, and at what point we can say that a subject has had an analysis. “Does a mark exist that establishes the […]

A special conference in Madrid on 13th May brought together psychoanalysts of the Lacanian orientation, in the wake of the French presidential elections, to discuss what the future role of psychoanalysis should be in the political sphere. In an address to the conference, Jacques-Alain Miller announced the launch of a new international journal of Lacanian […]

More new publications arrived in April or were announced for release in the coming months. The collection Perversion Now!, edited by Diana Caine and Colin Wright, was published as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. Written by Lacanian practitioners and theorists, it explores perversion from multiple angles across 24 chapters, drawing on work from the […]

The XIth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, taking place in Barcelona 2nd-6th April 2018, now has its own site at newly-launched site at https://congresoamp2018.com/en/. The Argument for its theme ‘The Ordinary Psychoses and the Others Under Transference’ was published last month, written by Anna Aromi and Xavier Esqué. It is in itself an […]

The publication schedule for 2017 continues to promise a flurry of new releases over the coming months. Écrits translator Bruce Fink’s A Clinical Introduction to Freud will be one of the first, coming out 21st March in the US and in the UK on 2nd May. Also just around the corner is the release of […]

The US Library of Congress has just released 20,000 documents from its Freud archive, making them available digitally online for the first time. It is an absolute treasure trove of material stretching from 1851- five years before Freud’s birth – in the form of family papers and legal documents, to interviews and recollections of Freud […]

Many new Lacanian publications that will be appearing in 2017 were announced last month. Starting with those out later in January, two new pieces from the Palgrave Lacan Series will be Will Greenshields’ Writing the Structures of the Subject: Lacan and Topology and the collection Perversion Now!, edited by Diana Caine and Colin Wright. Also […]

Among new publications in November was Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, edited by Boštjan Nedoh and Andreja Zevnik. The book aims to present “a reconfiguration of the reception of Deluze and Lacan in Continental philosophy” and, as the subtitle suggests, it challenges the distance between the two theorists’ contributions. Over the course of the […]