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Among newly announced publications, Routledge released The Lacan Tradition, at the end of February. Edited by Lionel Bailly, David Lichtenstein, and Sharmini Bailly it comprises papers from prominent Lacanians such as Dany Nobus and Bernard Burgoyne looking at the evolution of Lacan’s theory and practice over the decades. It is part of Routledge’s series ‘The […]

Three new works in the Lacanian canon were released last month. Firstly, Mahitosh Mandal’s Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture is especially interesting because it is perhaps the first work of its kind to be published on the Indian subcontinent. It presents an overview of Lacan’s theory and a detailed analysis of John Fowles’s The […]

The year ended with the sad news of the passing of Judith Miller, President of the Foundation of the Freudian Field, wife of Jacques-Alain Miller, and daughter of Jacques Lacan himself. Tributes have been led by the World Association of Psychoanalysis, and two editions of Lacan Quotidien last month (numbers 753 and 754) carry personal […]

Announced last month for publication by Wiley in June 2018 is …or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX, the English translation of Lacan’s Seminar of 1971-1972. Dealing with the impossibility of the sexual relation, the artificiality of the semblance, and the singularity of a “One-all-alone”, Seminar XIX is the gateway to Lacan’s late […]

First, new publications, and as heralded in last month’s update October saw the release of a new collection of seminars Lacan gave in the early seventies under the title Talking to Brick Walls. Published by Polity it is a translation of the French original, Je Parle aux Murs, from 2011. The English translation is by […]

As we enter autumn and a new academic year, plenty of new titles in the Lacanian field have started appearing. Of those published last month, Karnac released Antonio Quinet’s Lacan’s Clinical Technique: Lack(a)nian Analysis in early September. Quinet is a founding member of the EPFCL-Brazil, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and playwright. His book is a straightforwardly clinical […]

New publications first, and Derek Hook’s Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and identification in psychology and psychoanalysis was released last month by Routledge. The book introduces Lacanian psychoanalysis to an audience interested in psychology, while noting that this was a discipline Lacan was notoriously antagonistic towards. Topics such as communication, identity, otherness and inter-subjectivity are […]

Among new publications released last month, Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child, a collection under the editorship of Carol Owens and Stephanie Farrelly Quinn, was published by Karnac. Although, as the authors note, there is no “doctrine of the psychoanalysis of children” in Lacan’s work, this collection brings together […]

Published last month by Karnac Books, as part of the CFAR Library, was Luis Izcovich’s The Marks of a Psychoanalysis. Izcovich’s book looks at the effects of analysis, what it changes in someone’s life, and at what point we can say that a subject has had an analysis. “Does a mark exist that establishes the […]

A special conference in Madrid on 13th May brought together psychoanalysts of the Lacanian orientation, in the wake of the French presidential elections, to discuss what the future role of psychoanalysis should be in the political sphere. In an address to the conference, Jacques-Alain Miller announced the launch of a new international journal of Lacanian […]