Category: News

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 April edition (front page above) to the current wave of opposition to psychoanalysis in France. Its cover story, carrying the title ‘Should we burn psychoanalysis?’, focuses […]

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 it’s report on autism, Autisme et autres troubles envahissants du développement. Lacan Quotidien has a summary of its conclusions, in French, here. With the French press heralding that the report […]

  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 Sophie Robert’s film Le Mur which, since its censorship by a Lille court, has attracted considerable attention. Now, several news sources in France have published details of a report […]

  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 with a number of prominent Lacanian analysts in which they discuss their perspectives on autism. The film can be viewed on YouTube (in French, with English […]

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 his theories of the deceptive and disruptive capabilities of the image. He stands on the far left, shaking his head so as to distort the camera’s […]

  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 by psychoanalysts – Lacanian and non-Lacanian – and those from other walks of life for her release. More on this excellent news from Lacan Quotidien (in […]

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, and two articles each from Jacques-Alain Miller and Slavoj Zizek. Read the full thing here.   The London Society of the New Lacanian School starts its 2011-2012 […]

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 these in English below (and see August’s News for some of those that have previously been announced).  As reported last month, Gérard Miller’s documentary ‘Rendez-vous chez […]

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 analyst Darian Leader will be discussing Lacanian diagnosis in a public lecture at the University of Sussex on Friday 16th September. More details: http://bit.ly/rq0sNE   Coming up […]