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News – July 2017

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com August 4, 2017 News – July 20172017-08-07T06:52:55+01:00 News No Comment

Among new publications released last month, Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child, a collection under the editorship of Carol Owens and Stephanie Farrelly...

News – June 2017

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com July 2, 2017 News – June 20172017-07-02T15:40:59+01:00 News No Comment

Published last month by Karnac Books, as part of the CFAR Library, was Luis Izcovich’s The Marks of a Psychoanalysis. Izcovich’s book looks at the effects of analysis, what...

News – May 2017

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com June 4, 2017 News – May 20172017-06-04T22:56:15+01:00 News No Comment

A special conference in Madrid on 13th May brought together psychoanalysts of the Lacanian orientation, in the wake of the French presidential elections, to discuss what the future role...

News – April 2017

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com May 7, 2017 News – April 20172017-05-15T06:31:59+01:00 News No Comment

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...

News – March 2017

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com April 6, 2017 News – March 20172017-04-06T23:48:05+01:00 News No Comment

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...

News – February 2017

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com March 5, 2017 News – February 20172017-03-22T07:12:15+01:00 News No Comment

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...

News – January 2017

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com February 3, 2017 News – January 20172017-02-03T19:56:45+01:00 News No Comment

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...

News – December 2016

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com January 3, 2017 News – December 20162017-01-03T07:17:51+01:00 News No Comment

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...

News – November 2016

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com December 4, 2016 News – November 20162016-12-04T14:51:26+01:00 News No Comment

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...

News – October 2016

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com November 7, 2016 News – October 20162016-11-07T05:27:52+01:00 News No Comment

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...

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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.