News – January 2019

Among new books released last month was the collection Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious, edited by Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian. Refuting the accusation that psychoanalysis is an expensive luxury only for the wealthy, it shows how psychoanalytic principles are applied successfully to disenfranchised Latino populations. This published collection follows the […]

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News – December 2018

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 […]

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News – September 2018

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 […]

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News – August 2018

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 […]

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The Unconscious of ‘Things’

We’re going to start with a naive question – what is the ‘stuff’ of the unconscious? This short article is about the unconscious of ‘things’, and if we think about what these ‘things’ might be, psychoanalysis already gives us several possible answers. We could think of: Freud’s ‘thing-presentations’ (Sachvorstellungen) Das Ding – the second sense […]

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News – May 2018

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. […]

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