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Newly-published by Routledge last month was Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam, a new volume edited by Ian Parker and Sabah Siddiqui. It follows the 2017 international conference organised by the College of Psychoanalysts UK, Islamic Psychoanalysis/Psychoanalytic Islam, of which Parker is current President. This book unites authors from different psychoanalytic traditions who work at the […]

Plenty of new books published in the last month, due for release before the end of the year, or newly-announced for the first half of 2019. In November, writer and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster’s latest book, Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis was published by Columbia University Press last month. Borrowing its title from […]

The 2019 Lacan’s Écrits Conference has been announced for 11th-13th October 2019 at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Organized by the Duquesne Psychology Department, it follows the first Lacan’s Écrits Conference which took place in Ghent in September. A call for papers has been issued with the following details: Papers with a maximum length of 2000 words […]

Alain Badiou’s Lacan, drawn from his year-long anti-philosophy seminar on Lacan, has now been published by Columbia University Press. In it, Badiou approaches Lacan as one such anti-philosopher, arguing for the challenge he posed to fundamental philosophical ideas around truth, being, and the nature of subjectivity. Heavily influenced by Lacan in his formative years, Badiou […]

Several new publications are due for release in the coming months. Firstly, coming out on 12th October is a translation of Colette Soler’s Lacan Reading Joyce, courtesy of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library and publishers Routledge. It introduces Soler’s influential reading of Lacan’s approach to the Irish novelist, through the latter’s famous […]

Routledge continues to produce some of the best new works in the Lacanian field, and there are six new newly-announced tiles for upcoming publication worth mentioning this month. First, Studying Lacan’s Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire, edited by Carol Owens and Nadezhda Almqvist, is now on the plan for January 2019. This […]

The new translation of Lacan’s nineteenth Seminar, from 1971-1972, …Or Worse was released in the UK at the end of June, and will be released in the US in mid-August. The translator is Adrian R. Price but it is drawn from the Jacques-Alain Miller-edited text, originally published in France in 2011. The Seminar is situated […]

Among newly-announced upcoming publications, San Francisco-based Lacanian psychoanalyst Raul Moncayo’s Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance: Levels, Symbols, and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis will be released in September as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. It will look at pure and applied analysis of Lacanian and Freudian theory in practice, and its transmission within psychoanalytic organisations. […]

Beginning with the latest publications in the Lacanian field, released last month was the new collection Unconscious Incarnations edited by Brian W. Becker, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, and David M. Goodman. Focussing on the status of the body in psychoanalytic theory and practice, it examines concepts like trauma, healing, desire, subjectivity, and the unconscious from an […]

Starting with new publications out now and newly-announced, coming later in the year is Arka Chattopadhyay’s Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real, due to be released by Bloomsbury Press in December. Chattopadhyay’s work “proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett’s prose […]