Lessons from Lacan’s Practice – Everyday Psychoanalysis, from the Classroom to the Boardroom (I)
Lesson 1 – Disrupt the Imaginary Register… Before Jacques Lacan became Jacques Lacan, he was a young medical student with an interest in psychiatry, training in Paris. But he...
On Lacan’s Style – A Prelude
“It’s a de-analysis that you need.” – Lacan, to his patient Anne-Lise Stern. As recounted in Les Impromptus de Lacan, p.52. This is a short post as a prelude...
News – October 2013
In Belgium last month, a law was proposed with the aim of regulating psychoanalysis by assimilating it with the psychotherapies. Regulars to this site will remember that a similar...
News – September 2013
In recent years a lot of Lacanians have grown weary of the constant conflations of Zizek’s teaching with Lacan’s. As Zizek himself has grown in popularity many, especially in...
Reading ‘The Neurotic’s Individual Myth’ – Lacan’s Masterwork on Obsession
Lacan’s Take on Obsession – Symptoms, Mechanisms and Structure ‘The Neurotic’s Individual Myth’, Lacan’s masterwork on obsession and the Rat Man case history, is quite rare to find in...
5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – V
5. Men in Love Case in point: Friends with Benefits ‘There is no such thing as a sexual relationship’ is a slightly odd translation of Lacan’s well-known maxim Il...
News – August 2013
The Symptom 14, the free online journal from Lacan.com, was released mid-way through August – take a read up on the site. It includes articles by Eric Laurent...
5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – IV
4. The Subject Supposed to Know and the ‘Magical Negro’ The ‘Magical Negro’ is a cinematic cliché in itself. The term was coined by director Spike Lee to denote...
5 Lacanian Cinematic Clichés that Hollywood Loves – III
3. Horror Movies and the Mirror Image Here’s a horror story in just two sentences: This sends a chill down most spines. The ideas that it plays on –...