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News – September 2025

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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications A Psychoanalysis of Act and Action by Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes has just been published by Routledge, a study of the philosophy of action with Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory. While we may be aware of the various forms in which Lacan […]

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News – August 2025

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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Lacan and the Question of Consent: Why Yielding is Not Consenting by Clotilde Leguil, translated by Domitille Krupka, is an intriguing new title that has just been published by Routledge. Exploring the boundary between these two terms, Leguil attempts […]

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News – July 2025

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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Understanding Lacan’s Objet a, by Juan Pablo Lucchelli, has just been published by Routledge. Exploring the origin and significance of Lacan’s most unique contribution to psychoanalysis, Lucchelli begins by considering what we call an ‘object’ in psychoanalysis. Some of […]

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News – June 2025

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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Traumatic Neurosis Revisited: Drive-jouissance and the Wounds of Life by Leslie Chapman has just been published as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. Chapman advances a view of trauma distinct from what he calls the “PTSD paradigm”, returning to […]

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News – May 2025

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New Publications Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy, edited by Helena Texier and Eve Watson, has just been published by Routledge. Part of the Freud Lacan Institute lecture series, this collection of essays revisits six of Freud’s most famous case studies – that of the ‘Wolf Man’, the ‘Rat Man’, Dora, […]

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News – April 2025

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20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. New Publications Decolonization and Psychoanalysis: The Underside of Signification by Ahmad Fuad Rahmat was published by Routledge in April. Using a decolonial lens to examine how Lacan conceived of the materiality of speech, Rahmat proposes […]

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News – March 2025

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20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. New Publications Jean Allouch’s New Remarks on the Passage to the Act: Lacan and the Lacanians was published by Routledge last month. Allouch, who died in 2023, was one of Lacan’s analysands but a major […]

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News – February 2025

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20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. Special Appeal – Save the 388 The renowned and long running 388 clinic in Quebec, famed for its offer of psychoanalytic treatment for young adults suffering from psychosis, is in danger of closing. Please consider […]

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News – January 2025

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20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. New Publications Whiteness at the Abyss: A Lacanian Reading of ‘White Anxiety’ by Derek Hook was published as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series last month. With contributions by Sheldon George, Donald Moss, and Slavoj […]

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News – December 2024

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20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. New Publications Pure Excess: Capitalism and the Commodity by Todd McGowan was published at the end of December by Columbia University Press. In his latest book, McGowan produces a new model of capitalism as a […]

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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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