The Dora Parallax
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...
VIDEO – Jacques Lacan on Obsession and the Rat Man Case
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...
Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (IV)
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...
Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (III)
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...
Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (II)
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:...
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...