News – June 2012
CFAR's annual conference took place here in London on 23rd June with the title 'Bipolar or Manic Depressive? Lacanian Perspectives'. Amidst contributions from an array of speakers, one common theme…
News – May 2012
May began with the sad news of the death of Jean Laplanche, one of Lacan's former pupils and a great psychoanalyst in his own right. He is perhaps best known…
Jean Laplanche, Psychoanalyst, 1924-2012
It was announced last week that psychoanalyst Jean Laplanche has died in Beaune, near Dijon, France, aged 87. Coincidentally he passed away on 6th May, the 156th anniversary of Freud’s…
News – April 2012
Echoes of the debate on autism and psychoanalysis reverberated around mainstream French media in April. French weekly news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur devoted a good proportion of its 19th April…
News – March 2012
The debate around the treatment of autism continues to dominate almost all current French psychoanalytic output. On 8th March the French public health body the Haute Autorité de Santé published it's…
News – February 2012
The debate on autism in France, first reported on last month, rumbles on. The pages of February's Lacan Quotidien have been filled with comment on the debate sparked by Sophie…
News – January 2012
Autism Scandal A controversy has broken out in French psychoanalytic circles around a documentary on autism by filmmaker Sophie Robert. Her documentary Le Mur (or The Wall) includes interviews with…
What Does Lacan Say About… The End, And Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part II)
For Part I click here The psychoanalyst as incarnation of object a The shift from Seminar X Around the time of Seminar X in 1963 there is a big shift…
What Does Lacan Say About… The End, and Ends, of a Psychoanalysis? (Part I)
Introductory Remarks The first question we have to confront is a terminological one: in what sense do we mean the 'end of a psychoanalysis'? This phrase could refer simply to…
News – December 2011
The picture above shows Lacan posing alongside numerous other European intellectuals of the 1930s, including Picasso and Satre. At the time this photograph was taken Lacan was busy refining his…