Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
“It’s one thing to see images of an experience you had, but it’s another thing to have an experience of the experience. It was the closest I’d ever come to feeling like I was there again.” – Evan Spiegel, founder of Snapchat (now Snap), announcing the launch of his company’s camera-embedded glasses. When we look […]
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Polity Press announced last month the forthcoming publication of Lacan’s Seminar V, The Formations of the Unconscious, due to be released April 2017. Originally published in French in 1998, this translation by Russell Grigg is the latest in the series to be published by Polity under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller. Seminar V is one […]
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An upcoming conference at the Freud Museum in London in October commemorates the work of one of the finest writers on psychoanalysis, John Forrester, who died in November last year. ‘Thinking in Cases: On and Beyond the Couch’ is a half-day symposium on his long-standing research project of the same name, an attempt to theorise […]
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Presentations, interviews, and reflections from July’s NLS Congress in Dublin on Discreet Signs in Ordinary Psychoses have been collected on Radio Lacan in English and French, and over 570 photos from the Congress are also now available on the event’s Facebook page. As is customary, the NLS has also appointed a new executive committee for […]
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The Forum of Psychoanalysts in Belgium, part of the Cause freudienne, has organised a petition against a new legislative proposal in the country put forward by Maggie De Block, Belgian Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health. The bill aims to bring uniformity to the psy- field, but with the effect of ignoring the enormous […]
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The following story, first told by Lacan in 1960, is exemplary of what he said about love. I will call it the story of the fruit and the flame. It goes like this: Imagine you see in front of you a beautiful flower, or a ripe fruit. You reach out your hand to grab it. […]
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The Lacanian Review released its first issue in May. The journal replaces its predecessor Hurly-Burly as the Anglophone periodical of the New Lacanian School. The first issue – entitled Oh my God(s)! – deals with the interface between psychoanalysis, religion, and science. It includes a newly-translated text by Lacan on religion, and two texts by […]
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April saw the meeting of the Xth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis in Rio to study the theme ‘The Speaking Body: on the Unconscious in the 21st Century’. Radio Lacan has a number of recordings from the event, though only in Portuguese, Spanish and French. Among them however is audio of the opening […]
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A podcast of Alexandre Stevens’ excellent talk in London last month on ‘Unlimited Enjoyments’ is now available thanks to the Backdoor Broadcasting Company. Hosted in London on 17th March by the MA in Psychoanalysis at Kingston University and the New Lacanian School, Stevens’ seminar addresses what he calls the “principles of limitation” or “modifiers to […]
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Announced by Polity last month was a publication date for Lacan’s twenty-third Seminar, The Sinthome, due out in September under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller. This is the late Seminar in which Lacan conducted his prolonged discussion on the work of Joyce through the frame of a new theory of the symptom, to which he […]
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