Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
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 eighteenth century the city of Königsberg, now part of modern-day Russia, was connected by seven bridges which linked the two islands of the city with […]
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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 date is listed as September 2015 and a table of contents is available on the holding page here. Polity released Lacan’s Seminar X on anxiety, […]
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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 the latest edition – number 28 – on the child, the London Society will host Alexandre Stevens, Director of Le Courtil in Belgium, an institution […]
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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, Jimmy Hendrix – to name just a few – all lost their mothers when they were young. As did Bono, lead singer of U2, whose […]
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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 mental hardship which has become well-known in Lacanian circles for its treatment of autistic children using psychoanalytic ideas. The film now has a companion book […]
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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 of these talks on some of the fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis. Introductory Lectures on Lacan, edited by Astrid Gessert, is available from Karnac Books with […]
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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 Memorial Lecture to the impact of his passing. Prominent Lacanian author Prof Dany Nobus will give a talk entitled ‘Yom Kippur 1939: The Last Day […]
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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 the short text of an intervention Lacan made at the equally unremarkable-sounding 1951 ‘Congress of Romance Language-Speaking Psychoanalysts’. But the case of the patient to […]
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“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 ‘This Lacan, he’s so banal!” The above quote comes from a 1974 interview Lacan gave to the journalist Emilio Granzotto for the Italian magazine Panorama. […]
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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 the city, alongside the Seine and close to the Bibliotheque Nationale de France: The proposal (here, in French) reads “the denomination ‘rue Jacques Lacan’ will […]
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