Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications A Psychoanalysis of Act and Action by Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes has just been published by Routledge, a study of the philosophy of action using Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. As well as examining the various forms in which Lacan describes the […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Lacan and the Question of Consent: Why Yielding is Not Consenting by Clotilde Leguil, translated by Domitille Krupka, is an intriguing new title that has just been published by Routledge. Exploring the boundary between these two terms, Leguil attempts […]
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One of the more helpful ways to understand what Lacan calls the ‘Real’ is as what emerges from the impossibilities or inconsistencies in the symbolic. This is not the only way to understand the Real, and it is not the only way Lacan presents it. But I will show that it is consistent with how […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Understanding Lacan’s Objet a, by Juan Pablo Lucchelli, has just been published by Routledge. Exploring the origin and significance of Lacan’s most unique contribution to psychoanalysis, Lucchelli begins by considering what we call an ‘object’ in psychoanalysis. Some of […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Traumatic Neurosis Revisited: Drive-jouissance and the Wounds of Life by Leslie Chapman has just been published as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. Chapman advances a view of trauma distinct from what he calls the “PTSD paradigm”, returning to […]
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New Publications Freud’s Principal Case Studies Revisited: Freudian-Lacanian Psychoanalysts Reconsider the Legacy, edited by Helena Texier and Eve Watson, has just been published by Routledge. Part of the Freud Lacan Institute lecture series, this collection of essays revisits six of Freud’s most famous case studies – that of the ‘Wolf Man’, the ‘Rat Man’, Dora, […]
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Psychoanalysis involves the telling of a history. This is a personal history but never just the history of a person. It implicates one’s family history and its generational transmission. We can think of a psychoanalysis as an effort to give this history a place, or give oneself a place within it. The telling of this […]
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20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. New Publications Decolonization and Psychoanalysis: The Underside of Signification by Ahmad Fuad Rahmat was published by Routledge in April. Using a decolonial lens to examine how Lacan conceived of the materiality of speech, Rahmat proposes […]
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What is psychoanalysis and what makes it different? Psychoanalysis is a response to human suffering. It is a form of psychotherapy, but it’s very different from other kinds of psychotherapy. In this video we look at how it’s different, how it works, and a little about what the experience of a psychoanalysis is like. Contact […]
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20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. New Publications Jean Allouch’s New Remarks on the Passage to the Act: Lacan and the Lacanians was published by Routledge last month. Allouch, who died in 2023, was one of Lacan’s analysands but a major […]
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