Category: Lacan

What is Jacques Lacan’s idea of object a? Where did Lacan’s idea come from, and what is the importance of object a in psychoanalysis? We will look at what in psychoanalysis is meant by the term ‘object’, how Freud thinks of it early in his work, and how Lacan builds on Freud’s idea of ‘the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

The following story, first told by Lacan in 1960, is exemplary of what he said about love. I will call it the story of the fruit and the flame. It goes like this: Imagine you see in front of you a beautiful flower, or a ripe fruit. You reach out your hand to grab it. […]

A woman reports two dreams to Freud: 1. She dreamt she was going to the market with her cook, who was carrying the basket. After she had asked for something, the butcher said to her: ‘That’s not obtainable any longer’, and offered her something else, adding ‘This is good too’. She rejected it and went […]

This article was originally delivered as ‘From a Tickle to an Inferno: The Theory of Jouissance in Psychoanalysis’ to the School of the Freudian Letter, Cyprus, May 2015. We are at the Catholic University of Louvain in the early 1970s. The lecture Lacan is about to give is the only known recorded instance of his […]