Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
Part III of a short series of videos introducing the concept of repression in psychoanalysis. Looking at how we can re-think repression in terms of myth, music, and metaphor – and what this means for how we think about the ‘internal world’. By Owen Hewitson, LacanOnline.com All content on LacanOnline.com is licensed under a Creative […]
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Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here. With lockdowns still in place across much of the world as a result of COVID-19, fewer new books are being published that would usually be expected. Despite this Routledge & CRC Press – one of the major publishers of new Lacanian titles, and […]
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This video goes on a tour of Lacan’s famous Graph of Desire, as elaborated in ‘The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire’ in his Écrits. We look at each form of the Graph, check in at each of its points, explain what all the algebra means, and go through the concepts behind […]
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Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here. In the light of the Coronavirus pandemic those events that have not been cancelled or postponed are being switched to digital delivery where possible. This offers an excellent opportunity to engage in Lacanian events around the world, many of which would not have […]
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Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here Planning for the 2020 Lacan’s Écrits Conference is gathering momentum, with just over a month to go until the Call for Papers deadline. Hosted by Lacan in Scotland, the Conference will take place September 12-13 at Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Conference […]
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A new series of short videos on ‘Freud’s Problems’. Not so much problems with Freud as problems that Freud was trying to solve. Here we look at what interests people about psychology – what goes on in the human mind, and what makes us think and act the way we do. By Owen Hewitson, LacanOnline.com […]
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The English translation of Lacan’s Seminar IV is being prepared for publication by Polity, with its release date just announced for August this year. The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV will be translated by Adrian Price, under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller, and is Lacan’s major seminar engaging with Klein and […]
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Beginning with a round-up of new books published in the last month, Touria Mignotte’s Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, and the Body of the Void was released at the start of December, aiming to integrate the life sciences and quantum physics with the themes in its title. Cruelty, she argues, […]
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Part II of a short series of videos introducing the concept of repression in psychoanalysis, looking at one of Freud’s most famous cases, and Jacques Lacan’s take on it. 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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A petition against the exclusion of psychoanalysis and in support of diversity in research and care methods has been launched in Europe. It has been prompted by the latest attempt from the film maker Sophie Robert to have psychoanalysts ousted from the public sphere. Her campaign this time aims to prevent psychoanalysts from being able […]
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