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Proposals are now being welcomed for contributions to a planned new collection from Palgrave Macmillan under the title The Palgrave Lacan Series. Co-ordinated by Lacanian scholars Calum Neill at Edinburgh Napier University and Derek Hook at Duquesne University, the book series will bring together the best new writing in the Lacanian field, giving voice to […]

Lacunae, the journal of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI), published its tenth edition last month. It contains contributions from analysts such as Biagi-Chai, Maleval, Carbonell and Grigg, as well as several Irish practitioners. Two of the articles from the latest edition are available online for free for a limited time: ‘The […]

The NLS’s Congress on the theme Moments of Crisis took place in Geneva in May. Recordings of some of the opening talks of the Congress are available on Radio Lacan here. Despite the listing on the site, the opening address by Yves Vanderveken was given in both French and English, so English-only speakers can also […]

Announced last month for publication in September is the ‘official’ English translation of Lacan’s Seminar VIII, on transference, under the direction of Jacques-Alain Miller. This Seminar, presented between 1960 and 1961, is especially interesting for the fact that instead of commentating on the already voluminous contributions made by post-Freudian analysts on the transference (and counter-transference) […]

Lacanian Ink 45, the latest edition of the long-running journal, went to the printers in late March and is due to be released shortly. Number 45 takes ‘The Wicked Other’ as its theme and features three contributions by Jacques-Alain Miller, as well as Josefina Ayerza, the publication’s founder who also runs Lacan.com. For updates on […]

A great event for Lacanians coming up at the end of March. The Freud Museum in London will be hosting a talk by Raul Moncayo and Magdalena Romanowicz entitled ‘The Real Jouissance of Uncountable Numbers: The Philosophy of Science within Lacanian Psychoanalysis’. The talk heralds the publication of their new book of the same name, […]

Due out in the next few days is the latest edition of Hurly-Burly , the New Lacanian School’s international journal of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Among the highlights of edition 12 is a translation of the 1974 interview Lacan gave to the Italian magazine Panorama (previously referenced on this site here); Gil Caroz’s argument that forms the […]

Polity Books, publishers of the new translations of Lacan’s Seminar in English, last month released details on its site of the forthcoming release of Seminar VIII on transference. The release date is listed as September 2015 and a table of contents is available on the holding page here. Polity released Lacan’s Seminar X on anxiety, […]

Announced for 17th January in London is a special seminar celebrating 15 years of the Psychoanalytical Notebooks, the journal published by the London Society of the New Lacanian School. With the latest edition – number 28 – on the child, the London Society will host Alexandre Stevens, Director of Le Courtil in Belgium, an institution […]

Mariana Otero’s 2013 documentary, À ciel ouvert (Like An Open Sky), looked at the work of Le Courtil, the medical institution in Belgium that caters for children in social or mental hardship which has become well-known in Lacanian circles for its treatment of autistic children using psychoanalytic ideas. The film now has a companion book […]