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Shades of Subjectivity – IV

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 21, 2013      Blog     No Comment
 About half way through his fifteenth Seminar on The Psychoanalytic Act, Lacan suggests to his audience that Freud’s contribution to a psychoanalytic theory of subjectivity can be summed up...
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Shades of Subjectivity – III

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 14, 2013      Blog     1 Comment
 In an attempt to separate subjectivity from identity in the last article, one of the questions we were left with was whether the subject simply exchanges an imaginary alienation...
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Shades of Subjectivity – II

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 9, 2013      Blog     2 Comments
  This is the second of four article on the subject of subjectivity (the first is here).   Just as in the last article we opposed subjectivity to objectivity,...
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Shades of Subjectivity – I

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 7, 2013      Blog     3 Comments
  This is the first of four articles on subjectivity. Or more precisely, the first on four ‘shades’ of subjectivity because, with so much Lacanian ink having already been...
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“The first great Lacanian text not to be written by Lacan himself” – Reading Miller’s ‘Suture’

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       April 5, 2013      Blog     No Comment
Suture is a Lacanian concept, but not a concept of Lacan’s. According to Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller’s paper, ‘Suture (Elements of the Logic of the Signifier)’ was “the first...
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A Story from Lacan’s Practice

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 12, 2012      Blog     2 Comments
This is a wonderful story from Lacan’s clinic, as told by Suzanne Hommel, who was in analysis with Lacan in 1974. It gives us a rare insight into Lacan’s method...
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Reading Lacan – Where to Start?

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 14, 2012      Blog     16 Comments
A few people have contacted me recently via this site asking for suggestions of what to read, either by way of introduction to Lacan or for an alternative perspective...
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Special Appeal – Free Rafah Nached

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       October 5, 2011      Blog     3 Comments
UPDATE  WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2011: RAFAH NACHED HAS BEEN FREED.    Announced on French-language news site Lacan Quotidien this evening: Rafah Nached is free! After having been informed that...
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Three ways to understand the subject of the statement and the subject of the enunciation

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 2, 2011      Blog     6 Comments
This article will examine the concepts of the subject of the statement and the subject of the enunciation, the relationship between them, and look at three examples of where...
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Henry Krutzen’s Index of Lacan’s Seminar

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 30, 2011      Blog     1 Comment
For English-speaking students of Lacan’s work it is unfortunate how little this book is known. This short post attempts to rectify that by giving a shout-out for Krutzen’s marvellous...
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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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