Author: Owen Hewitson

Announced by Polity last month was a publication date for Lacan’s twenty-third Seminar, The Sinthome, due out in September under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller. This is the late Seminar in which Lacan conducted his prolonged discussion on the work of Joyce through the frame of a new theory of the symptom, to which he […]

Foremost among the new publications of note last month is Yael Goldman Baldwin’s Let’s Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and Other Catastrophes, a collection of five original Lacanian case studies from the contemporary clinic which has garnered much acclaim from fellow Lacanians. While Baldwin considers her work an “analytic-psychotherapy” rather than psychoanalysis, she […]

A series of free public seminars running from January to May are being convened in London by the MA in Psychoanalysis at Kingston University and the London Society of the New Lacanian School. On the topic ‘The Speaking Body is Today’s Unconscious’ the seminars will be led by some of the most prominent Lacanian practitioners […]

The attacks in Paris in November elicited commentary from many notable Lacanian voices, especially in France. Number 545 of Lacan Quotidien was the first post-attacks to address the issues from an analytic perspective and featured – among others – Eric Laurent’s article ‘Urgences subjectives de la guerre en temps de paix’ [‘Subjective emergencies of war […]

More great events in October at The Freud Museum in London after its Festival of the Unconscious concludes. First is ‘The Effectiveness of Symbols’, its conference named after the Levi-Strauss paper so influential to Lacan in his return to Freud. Lacanian analyst Darian Leader will be speaking about symbolic function, and the keynote speaker will […]

As the summer ends many Lacanian organisations are announcing their programme of events and seminars for the coming academic year. Après-Coup, the New York-based psychoanalytic association, has announced the timetable for its 2015-2016 programme of events. The various seminars will take place under the theme “Psychoanalysis, Savoir-faire, and the Social Link” and start on 25th […]

Proposals are now being welcomed for contributions to a planned new collection from Palgrave Macmillan under the title The Palgrave Lacan Series. Co-ordinated by Lacanian scholars Calum Neill at Edinburgh Napier University and Derek Hook at Duquesne University, the book series will bring together the best new writing in the Lacanian field, giving voice to […]