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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 […]

Among newly announced publications, Routledge released The Lacan Tradition, at the end of February. Edited by Lionel Bailly, David Lichtenstein, and Sharmini Bailly it comprises papers from prominent Lacanians such as Dany Nobus and Bernard Burgoyne looking at the evolution of Lacan’s theory and practice over the decades. It is part of Routledge’s series ‘The […]

Three new works in the Lacanian canon were released last month. Firstly, Mahitosh Mandal’s Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture is especially interesting because it is perhaps the first work of its kind to be published on the Indian subcontinent. It presents an overview of Lacan’s theory and a detailed analysis of John Fowles’s The […]

The year ended with the sad news of the passing of Judith Miller, President of the Foundation of the Freudian Field, wife of Jacques-Alain Miller, and daughter of Jacques Lacan himself. Tributes have been led by the World Association of Psychoanalysis, and two editions of Lacan Quotidien last month (numbers 753 and 754) carry personal […]

Announced last month for publication by Wiley in June 2018 is …or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX, the English translation of Lacan’s Seminar of 1971-1972. Dealing with the impossibility of the sexual relation, the artificiality of the semblance, and the singularity of a “One-all-alone”, Seminar XIX is the gateway to Lacan’s late […]

First, new publications, and as heralded in last month’s update October saw the release of a new collection of seminars Lacan gave in the early seventies under the title Talking to Brick Walls. Published by Polity it is a translation of the French original, Je Parle aux Murs, from 2011. The English translation is by […]