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The Dora Parallax

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 24, 2014      Lacan     2 Comments
Hidden behind the rather unassuming title ‘Presentation on Transference’ deep within the Écrits, Lacan’s seminal work on Freud’s most famous female patient is often overlooked. It is in reality...
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VIDEO – Jacques Lacan on Obsession and the Rat Man Case

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       June 4, 2014      Lacan     No Comment
I thought more people should know about Lacan’s work on obsession and his interpretation of the Rat Man case history, so I put together the video below as a...
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Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (IV)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       March 27, 2014      Lacan     3 Comments
Lesson 4 – The Value of Stupid Questions “There is nothing more interesting for us than stultae questiones ” – Lacan, Seminar XIII, 2nd February 1966. If a...
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Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (III)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       February 9, 2014      Lacan     3 Comments
Lesson 3 – Surprise, Punctuation, Pace, Silence When psychoanalysis was still in its infancy there were a lot of people interested in practicing it. They wanted to train as...
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Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (II)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       December 15, 2013      Lacan     No Comment
Lesson 2 – “Everyone wants to give you something, you just have to figure out what it is”. Let’s start this article not with Lacan but with this guy:...
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Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (I)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       November 24, 2013      Lacan     11 Comments
Lesson 1 – Disrupt the Imaginary Register… Before Jacques Lacan became Jacques Lacan, he was a young medical student with an interest in psychiatry, training in Paris. But he...
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On Lacan’s Style – A Prelude

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       November 7, 2013      Lacan     2 Comments
“It’s a de-analysis that you need.” – Lacan, to his patient Anne-Lise Stern. As recounted in Les Impromptus de Lacan, p.52. This is a short post as a prelude...
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Reading ‘The Neurotic’s Individual Myth’ – Lacan’s Masterwork on Obsession

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       September 23, 2013      Lacan     9 Comments
Lacan’s Take on Obsession – Symptoms, Mechanisms and Structure ‘The Neurotic’s Individual Myth’, Lacan’s masterwork on obsession and the Rat Man case history, is quite rare to find in...
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What Does Lacan Say About… The End, And Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part II)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 16, 2012      Lacan     3 Comments
  For Part I click here  The psychoanalyst as incarnation of object a The shift from Seminar X Around the time of Seminar X in 1963 there is a big...
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What Does Lacan Say About… The End, and Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part I)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 15, 2012      Lacan     7 Comments
Introductory Remarks The first question we have to confront is a terminological one: in what sense do we mean the ‘end of a psychoanalysis’? This phrase could refer simply...
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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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