News – July 2015
Proposals are now being welcomed for contributions to a planned new collection from Palgrave Macmillan under the title The Palgrave Lacan Series. Co-ordinated by Lacanian scholars Calum Neill at Edinburgh…
What Does Lacan Say About… Jouissance?
This article was originally delivered as ‘From a Tickle to an Inferno: The Theory of Jouissance in Psychoanalysis’ to the School of the Freudian Letter, Cyprus, May 2015. We are…
News – June 2015
Lacunae, the journal of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland (APPI), published its tenth edition last month. It contains contributions from analysts such as Biagi-Chai, Maleval, Carbonell and…
News – May 2015
The NLS’s Congress on the theme Moments of Crisis took place in Geneva in May. Recordings of some of the opening talks of the Congress are available on Radio Lacan…
News – April 2015
Announced last month for publication in September is the ‘official’ English translation of Lacan’s Seminar VIII, on transference, under the direction of Jacques-Alain Miller. This Seminar, presented between 1960 and…
News – March 2015
Lacanian Ink 45, the latest edition of the long-running journal, went to the printers in late March and is due to be released shortly. Number 45 takes ‘The Wicked Other’…
Why Topology Matters in Psychoanalysis – Part II
Let’s start with an obvious question that followed from the first article in this series: how is the use of topology in psychoanalysis not just metaphorical? How is it not,…
News – February 2015
A great event for Lacanians coming up at the end of March. The Freud Museum in London will be hosting a talk by Raul Moncayo and Magdalena Romanowicz entitled ‘The…
News – January 2015
Due out in the next few days is the latest edition of Hurly-Burly , the New Lacanian School’s international journal of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Among the highlights of edition 12 is…
From the Bridges of Königsberg – Why Topology Matters in Psychoanalysis
For Part II, click here. This is the first of two articles that will explore Lacan’s idea that human subjectivity has the structure of a topological space. In the early…