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Pornography and the Paradoxes of Pleasure – On the ‘Identity of Perception’

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       October 28, 2016      Blog     7 Comments
“It’s one thing to see images of an experience you had, but it’s another thing to have an experience of the experience. It was the closest I’d ever come...
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Inside Out and the ‘Science’ of Emotions

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       September 20, 2015      Blog     1 Comment
No film in recent years has had quite as much input from the field of psychology as Disney and Pixar’s latest offering, Inside Out. Charming though the film is,...
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On Absent Mothers

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       November 2, 2014      Blog     No Comment
Hip hop, it is sometimes claimed, is born of an absent father. If this is true perhaps rock music is born of an absent mother. John Lennon, Paul McCartney,...
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The Deepest Secret

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 2, 2014      Blog     No Comment
In The Question of Lay Analysis from 1926, Freud imagined himself being asked by an ‘Impartial Person’ whether psychoanalysis is a confession. He imagines the following question being thrown...
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Lacan avec Funakoshi

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       December 22, 2013      Blog     No Comment
From the symptom to the sinthome The title of this short article will resonate with readers of the Écrits,but rather than Kant or Sade here I am going to...
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5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – V

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       September 9, 2013      Blog     6 Comments
5. Men in Love Case in point: Friends with Benefits ‘There is no such thing as a sexual relationship’ is a slightly odd translation of Lacan’s well-known maxim Il...
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5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – IV

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 25, 2013      Blog     No Comment
4. The Subject Supposed to Know and the ‘Magical Negro’ The ‘Magical Negro’ is a cinematic cliché in itself. The term was coined by director Spike Lee to denote...
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5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – III

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 18, 2013      Blog     4 Comments
3. Horror Movies and the Mirror Image Here’s a horror story in just two sentences: This sends a chill down most spines. The ideas that it plays on –...
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5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – II

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 11, 2013      Blog     2 Comments
2. The Male Exception Case in point: Zodiac, The Usual Suspects, all Bond films, almost all movies about unsolved murders committed by men, and virtually any superhero film of the...
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5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – I

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 7, 2013      Blog     1 Comment
1. The Absent Father Case in point: Man of Steel I start this short series with what is perhaps the most consistently ubiquitous and easily noticeable of all cinematic...
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LacanOnline.com is a site for exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, 1901 - 1981.
Trained as a psychiatrist, he abandoned the profession in favour of psychoanalysis in the early thirties. After publishing his paper on the Mirror Stage in 1949, for which he is probably best known to the general public, in the early fifties Lacan embarked on a project he called the 'Return to Freud'.

Lacan began holding yearly seminars, starting in 1952, re-examining Freud's work. At the time, the theory and technique of psychoanalysis was facing a complete overhaul at the hands of post-Freudian psychoanalysts, many of whom had emigrated to the United States after the war. Lacan railed against their teaching of Freud, seeing it as an oversimplification of his work and a corruption of psychoanalytic technique reducing it to the status of life management. Through his seminars he offered another interpretation of Freud's work and psychoanalytic theory. Inventive, radical and adventurous, many still believe Lacan's to be a creative mis-reading of Freud.

However Lacan's seminars grew in popularity and as his teaching developed from a reading of Freud's text to an elaboration of his own concepts his teaching became more influential. Lacan continued to give yearly seminars until the year before his death in 1981. By that time, he had become a major intellectual figure in public life and had both created and disbanded his own school, separating his members both from the established psychoanalytic institutions and from each other.

Today, Lacanian theory is advanced by a number of disparate groupings of his followers and the technique of psychoanalysis he developed is practiced clinically by Lacanian analysts around the world.

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