Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (I)
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...
On Lacan’s Style – A Prelude
“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...
Reading ‘The Neurotic’s Individual Myth’ – Lacan’s Masterwork on Obsession
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...
What Does Lacan Say About… The End, And Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part II)
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...
What Does Lacan Say About… The End, and Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part I)
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...
What Does Lacan Say About… Resistance?
Where does resistance come from? The first question we have to ask about resistance is a very simple one: where exactly does resistance come from? In 1953, at...
What Does Lacan Say About… Acting Out?
We might begin by asking how it is that ‘acting out’ has come to be given the status of a concept in psychoanalysis? This is a valid question to...
What Does Psychoanalysis Have To Do With Psychology?
Most people without an interest in psychoanalysis do not know what it is. To the man in the street, psychoanalysis – indeed, anything carrying the prefix psy- – denotes...
What Does Lacan Say About… The Mirror Stage? – Part I
This is the first of two articles looking at the theory of the mirror stage in Lacan’s work. This first part looks at the presentation of the mirror stage...
What Does Lacan Say About… Rhetoric?
The Lacanian maxims that psychoanalysis is a practice based on speech, and that the unconscious is structured like a language, are now so classical that they are almost boring. Elsewhere...