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More new publications arrived in April or were announced for release in the coming months. The collection Perversion Now!, edited by Diana Caine and Colin Wright, was published as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. Written by Lacanian practitioners and theorists, it explores perversion from multiple angles across 24 chapters, drawing on work from the […]

The XIth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, taking place in Barcelona 2nd-6th April 2018, now has its own site at newly-launched site at https://congresoamp2018.com/en/. The Argument for its theme ‘The Ordinary Psychoses and the Others Under Transference’ was published last month, written by Anna Aromi and Xavier Esqué. It is in itself an […]

The publication schedule for 2017 continues to promise a flurry of new releases over the coming months. Écrits translator Bruce Fink’s A Clinical Introduction to Freud will be one of the first, coming out 21st March in the US and in the UK on 2nd May. Also just around the corner is the release of […]

The US Library of Congress has just released 20,000 documents from its Freud archive, making them available digitally online for the first time. It is an absolute treasure trove of material stretching from 1851- five years before Freud’s birth – in the form of family papers and legal documents, to interviews and recollections of Freud […]

Many new Lacanian publications that will be appearing in 2017 were announced last month. Starting with those out later in January, two new pieces from the Palgrave Lacan Series will be Will Greenshields’ Writing the Structures of the Subject: Lacan and Topology and the collection Perversion Now!, edited by Diana Caine and Colin Wright. Also […]

Among new publications in November was Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, edited by Boštjan Nedoh and Andreja Zevnik. The book aims to present “a reconfiguration of the reception of Deluze and Lacan in Continental philosophy” and, as the subtitle suggests, it challenges the distance between the two theorists’ contributions. Over the course of the […]

Plenty of new books on Lacanian theory and practice were published or announced for publication last month. Perhaps fittingly so given that November marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Lacan’s Écrits by Seuil. Firstly, released at the end of October is Raul Moncayo’s Lalangue, Sinthome, Jouissance, and Nomination. Coming hot on the […]

Polity Press announced last month the forthcoming publication of Lacan’s Seminar V, The Formations of the Unconscious, due to be released April 2017. Originally published in French in 1998, this translation by Russell Grigg is the latest in the series to be published by Polity under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller. Seminar V is one […]

An upcoming conference at the Freud Museum in London in October commemorates the work of one of the finest writers on psychoanalysis, John Forrester, who died in November last year. ‘Thinking in Cases: On and Beyond the Couch’ is a half-day symposium on his long-standing research project of the same name, an attempt to theorise […]

Presentations, interviews, and reflections from July’s NLS Congress in Dublin on Discreet Signs in Ordinary Psychoses have been collected on Radio Lacan in English and French, and over 570 photos from the Congress are also now available on the event’s Facebook page. As is customary, the NLS has also appointed a new executive committee for […]