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News – March 2019

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com April 9, 2019 News – March 20192019-04-09T16:24:58+01:00 News No Comment

LacanOnline visitors get 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles. Use this link and the discount code on that page at the checkout. Beginning with the...

News – February 2019

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com March 7, 2019 News – February 20192019-03-07T11:48:24+01:00 News No Comment

A special offer from Routledge to all LacanOnline.com visitors – from now and until further notice LacanOnline.com readers will get a 20% discount and free global shipping on all...

News – January 2019

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com February 12, 2019 News – January 20192019-02-12T22:38:47+01:00 News No Comment

Among new books released last month was the collection Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious, edited by Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian. Refuting the accusation that...

News – December 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com January 6, 2019 News – December 20182019-01-06T18:00:03+01:00 News 1 Comment

Newly-published by Routledge last month was Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam, a new volume edited by Ian Parker and Sabah Siddiqui. It follows the 2017 international conference organised by...

News – November 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com December 12, 2018 News – November 20182018-12-12T07:04:23+01:00 News 1 Comment

Plenty of new books published in the last month, due for release before the end of the year, or newly-announced for the first half of 2019. In November, writer...

News – October 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com November 4, 2018 News – October 20182018-11-11T22:14:11+01:00 News No Comment

The 2019 Lacan’s Écrits Conference has been announced for 11th-13th October 2019 at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Organized by the Duquesne Psychology Department, it follows the first Lacan’s Écrits Conference...

News – September 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com October 14, 2018 News – September 20182018-10-14T15:31:15+01:00 News No Comment

Alain Badiou’s Lacan, drawn from his year-long anti-philosophy seminar on Lacan, has now been published by Columbia University Press. In it, Badiou approaches Lacan as one such anti-philosopher, arguing...

News – August 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com September 16, 2018 News – August 20182018-09-17T22:34:34+01:00 News 1 Comment

Several new publications are due for release in the coming months. Firstly, coming out on 12th October is a translation of Colette Soler’s Lacan Reading Joyce, courtesy of the...

News – July 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com August 9, 2018 News – July 20182018-08-09T22:04:03+01:00 News No Comment

Routledge continues to produce some of the best new works in the Lacanian field, and there are six new newly-announced tiles for upcoming publication worth mentioning this month. First,...

News – June 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com July 7, 2018 News – June 20182018-07-15T22:43:20+01:00 News 1 Comment

The new translation of Lacan’s nineteenth Seminar, from 1971-1972, …Or Worse was released in the UK at the end of June, and will be released in the US in...

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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.