News – October 2019

Beginning with the most recent new book releases, and October saw the publication of Esoteric Lacan, edited by Philipp Valentini and Mahdi Tourage. As the first in-depth exploration of occultism, Sufism and the Kabbalistic tradition, it examines how different religious discourses influenced Lacan’s work. Critically examining the European understanding of these texts, it seeks to […]

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What is Repression? (Part I)

Part I of a short series of videos introducing the concept of repression in psychoanalysis, beginning with Lacan’s interview to the French magazine L’Express in 1957. Link to the interview: https://www.lacanonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Interview-with-Jacques-Lacan-LExpress-1957.pdf 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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What is Anxiety? Video Introduction to Lacan’s Theory

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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