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News – April 2012

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       May 3, 2012      News     No Comment
Echoes of the debate on autism and psychoanalysis reverberated around mainstream French media in April. French weekly news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur devoted a good proportion of its 19th...
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News – March 2012

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       April 7, 2012      News     No Comment
The debate around the treatment of autism continues to dominate almost all current French psychoanalytic output.  On 8th March the French public health body the Haute Autorité de Santé published...
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News – February 2012

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       March 1, 2012      News     No Comment
  The debate on autism in France, first reported on last month, rumbles on. The pages of February’s Lacan Quotidien have been filled with comment on the debate sparked by...
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News – January 2012

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 24, 2012      News     1 Comment
  Autism Scandal A controversy has broken out in French psychoanalytic circles around a documentary on autism by filmmaker Sophie Robert. Her documentary Le Mur (or The Wall) includes interviews...
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News – December 2011

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       December 31, 2011      News     No Comment
The picture above shows Lacan posing alongside numerous other European intellectuals of the 1930s, including Picasso and Satre. At the time this photograph was taken Lacan was busy refining...
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News – November 2011

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       November 21, 2011      News     No Comment
  After being imprisoned for over two months, Lacanian psychoanalyst Rafah Nached was released by the Syrian authorities Wednesday 16th November, bringing to a successful conclusion the worldwide campaign...
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News – October 2011

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       October 24, 2011      News     No Comment
The latest edition of The Symptom, the free online journal of Lacan.com, is now up on the site. Number 12 includes selected translations from the Lacan Quotidien news service,...
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News – September 2011

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       September 4, 2011      News     No Comment
Friday 9th September marks the 30th anniversary of Lacan’s death. In commemoration, a number of events are being organised in France this month. You can find a summary of...
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News – August 2011

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 4, 2011      News     1 Comment
Birkbeck, University of London, is now accepting enrolments for its short course  ‘An Introduction to Lacan’ which starts in January. Full details and how to sign up: http://bit.ly/nHgqse   Lacanian...
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News – July 2011

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       July 24, 2011      News     No Comment
Lacanian psychoanalyst Darian Leader on Anders Behring Breivik and the logic of madness: http://bit.ly/mZ5M4a   Registration is now open for the VIII Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, which...
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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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