Three Non-Lacanian Authors That Every Lacanian Should Read
There is no shortage of former Freudians who have abandoned the field and turned their talents to writing testimonies against Freudianism or psychoanalysis in general. Often these are semi-autobiographical accounts…
What Does Psychoanalysis Have To Do With Psychology?
Most people without an interest in psychoanalysis do not know what it is. To the man in the street, psychoanalysis - indeed, anything carrying the prefix psy- - denotes something…
What Does Lacan Say About… The Mirror Stage? – Part I
This is the first of two articles looking at the theory of the mirror stage in Lacan's work. This first part looks at the presentation of the mirror stage as…
What Does Lacan Say About… Rhetoric?
The Lacanian maxims that psychoanalysis is a practice based on speech, and that the unconscious is structured like a language, are now so classical that they are almost boring. Elsewhere on…
New site, fantastic resource: LacaninIreland.com
As I was looking up references to rhetoric in Lacan's work for a post I am planning to write on the subject I stumbled upon this site: For any English-speaker…
What is Psychoanalysis?
How would you answer the question 'What is psychoanalysis?' For anyone interested in psychoanalysis, having to explain concisely what psychoanalysis is and what it involves can elicit more than a…
Money and Psychoanalysis
Recently here in London the Freud Museum organised a three-day conference on the subject of Psychoanalysis, Money and the Economy. Amongst the keynote speakers was Bruce Fink, translator of Lacan's…
The Short Session
The problem that this blog post seeks to address is quite simple: what is the rationale for the short session as practiced in Lacanian psychoanalysis? Or to put it in…
What Does Lacan Say About… The Signifier?
"That there are in the unconscious signifying chains which subsist as such, and which from there structure, act on the organism, influence what appears from the outside as a symptom,…
The Case of Sigmund Freud
This documentary was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the autumn of 2000 to mark the centenary of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. As Freud scholars often remind us, this…