News – December 2014
Polity Books, publishers of the new translations of Lacan’s Seminar in English, last month released details on its site of the forthcoming release of Seminar VIII on transference. The release…
News – November 2014
Announced for 17th January in London is a special seminar celebrating 15 years of the Psychoanalytical Notebooks, the journal published by the London Society of the New Lacanian School. With…
On Absent Mothers
Hip hop, it is sometimes claimed, is born of an absent father. If this is true perhaps rock music is born of an absent mother. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elvis,…
News – October 2014
Mariana Otero’s 2013 documentary, À ciel ouvert (Like An Open Sky), looked at the work of Le Courtil, the medical institution in Belgium that caters for children in social or…
News – September 2014
The London-based Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research (CFAR) has for many years been running a public lecture programme introducing psychoanalysis through Lacan’s work. Last month it published a selection…
News – August 2014
This September is the 75th anniversary of Freud’s death, and to mark the occasion the Freud Museum in London - his final home - will be dedicating this year’s Freud…
The Dora Parallax
Hidden behind the rather unassuming title ‘Presentation on Transference’ deep within the Écrits, Lacan’s seminal work on Freud’s most famous female patient is often overlooked. It is in reality just…
News – July 2014
"I am also convinced that within ten years at the utmost, people reading my work will find it entirely transparent, like a good glass of beer. Perhaps then they’ll say…
News – June 2014
Thanks to a proposal by the Mayor of Paris, the city looks set to finally get its rue Jacques Lacan. The dedicated street will be located in the east of…
VIDEO – Jacques Lacan on Obsession and the Rat Man Case
I thought more people should know about Lacan’s work on obsession and his interpretation of the Rat Man case history, so I put together the video below as a more…