What is Primal Repression?
Final part of a short series of videos introducing the concept of repression in psychoanalysis. In this bonus video, we look at the concept of ‘primal’ repression, tracing the...
What is Repression (Part III)
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...
A Tour of The Graph of Desire
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...
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...
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...
What Does Lacan Say About… Love?
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....
In the Villa of the Mysteries – The Character of Desire in the Traumdeutung and Seminar V
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...
What Does Lacan Say About… Jouissance?
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...
Why Topology Matters in Psychoanalysis – Part II
Let’s start with an obvious question that followed from the first article in this series: how is the use of topology in psychoanalysis not just metaphorical? How is it...
From the Bridges of Königsberg – Why Topology Matters in Psychoanalysis
For Part II, click here. This is the first of two articles that will explore Lacan’s idea that human subjectivity has the structure of a topological space. In the...