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The London-based Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) has for many years been running a public lecture programme introducing psychoanalysis through Lacan’s work. Last month it published a selection of these talks on some of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. Introductory Lectures on Lacan, edited by Astrid Gessert, is available from Karnac Books with […]

This September is the 75th anniversary of Freud’s death, and to mark the occasion the Freud Museum in London – his final home – will be dedicating this year’s Freud Memorial Lecture to the impact of his passing. Prominent Lacanian author Prof Dany Nobus will give a talk entitled ‘Yom Kippur 1939: The Last Day […]

“I am also convinced that within ten years at the utmost, people reading my work will find it entirely transparent, like a good glass of beer. Perhaps then they’ll say ‘This Lacan, he’s so banal!” The above quote comes from a 1974 interview Lacan gave to the journalist Emilio Granzotto for the Italian magazine Panorama. […]

Thanks to a proposal by the Mayor of Paris, the city looks set to finally get its rue Jacques Lacan. The dedicated street will be located in the east of the city, alongside the Seine and close to the Bibliotheque Nationale de France: The proposal (here, in French) reads “the denomination ‘rue Jacques Lacan’ will […]

May saw the launch of an English translation of Colette Soler’s Lacan – The Unconscious Reinvented with a half-day seminar at the Freud Museum in London where Soler presented an overview of the reading of Lacan’s work that she details in the book. In particular, Soler zeroes in on the little-known but succinct summary of […]

April saw the ninth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis gather in Paris to explore the theme ‘A Real for the 21st Century’. Helpfully, Radio Lacan has recordings of some of the sessions for those who were not able to attend. You can also order the accompanying edition of the journal Scilicet on the […]

Periodically, Freud comes back into fashion as a new wave of thinkers from a variety of disparate disciplines ‘rediscover’ and apply his work to their respective fields. And so it was that Discover magazine decided to devote its latest issue, released in March, to ‘The Second Coming of Sigmund Freud’. There are no great surprises […]

As Elisabeth Roudinesco notes in the introduction to her new work – Lacan: In Spite of Everything – publication of which was brought forward last month, it is as if everything that could have been said about Lacan has already been said. Roudinesco is a controversial figure in the Lacanian world, so with her new […]

The World Association of Psychoanalysis has announced the launch of Radio Lacan, which began broadcasting on 3rd February. The first podcast was from the École de la Cause Freudienne in Paris on the topic of the next WAP Congress, ‘A Conversation towards a Real for the XXIst century’, featuring a discussion between leading Lacanian psychoanalysts. […]

Publications Heralding the WAP (World Association of Psychoanalysis) Congress in Paris in April this year, December saw the publication of Editions 9 and 10 of What’s Up, the WAP’s regular newsletter. They can be found on the Congress’s site here and include a number of orientation texts that make for preparatory reading ahead of the […]