Author: Owen Hewitson

Mariana Otero’s 2013 documentary, À ciel ouvert (Like An Open Sky), looked at the work of Le Courtil, the medical institution in Belgium that caters for children in social or mental hardship which has become well-known in Lacanian circles for its treatment of autistic children using psychoanalytic ideas. The film now has a companion book […]

The London-based Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) has for many years been running a public lecture programme introducing psychoanalysis through Lacan’s work. Last month it published a selection of these talks on some of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. Introductory Lectures on Lacan, edited by Astrid Gessert, is available from Karnac Books with […]

This September is the 75th anniversary of Freud’s death, and to mark the occasion the Freud Museum in London – his final home – will be dedicating this year’s Freud Memorial Lecture to the impact of his passing. Prominent Lacanian author Prof Dany Nobus will give a talk entitled ‘Yom Kippur 1939: The Last Day […]

“I am also convinced that within ten years at the utmost, people reading my work will find it entirely transparent, like a good glass of beer. Perhaps then they’ll say ‘This Lacan, he’s so banal!” The above quote comes from a 1974 interview Lacan gave to the journalist Emilio Granzotto for the Italian magazine Panorama. […]

Thanks to a proposal by the Mayor of Paris, the city looks set to finally get its rue Jacques Lacan. The dedicated street will be located in the east of the city, alongside the Seine and close to the Bibliotheque Nationale de France: The proposal (here, in French) reads “the denomination ‘rue Jacques Lacan’ will […]

May saw the launch of an English translation of Colette Soler’s Lacan – The Unconscious Reinvented with a half-day seminar at the Freud Museum in London where Soler presented an overview of the reading of Lacan’s work that she details in the book. In particular, Soler zeroes in on the little-known but succinct summary of […]

April saw the ninth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis gather in Paris to explore the theme ‘A Real for the 21st Century’. Helpfully, Radio Lacan has recordings of some of the sessions for those who were not able to attend. You can also order the accompanying edition of the journal Scilicet on the […]