Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
The latest edition of The Symptom, the free online journal of Lacan.com, is now up on the site. Number 12 includes selected translations from the Lacan Quotidien news service, and two articles each from Jacques-Alain Miller and Slavoj Zizek. Read the full thing here. The London Society of the New Lacanian School starts its 2011-2012 […]
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UPDATE WEDNESDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2011: RAFAH NACHED HAS BEEN FREED. Announced on French-language news site Lacan Quotidien this evening: Rafah Nached is free! After having been informed that she could be on the list of prisoners to be released imminently by the Syrian authorities, Rafah Nached’s husband arrived earlier today at the prison 80km from […]
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Friday 9th September marks the 30th anniversary of Lacan’s death. In commemoration, a number of events are being organised in France this month. You can find a summary of these in English below (and see August’s News for some of those that have previously been announced). As reported last month, Gérard Miller’s documentary ‘Rendez-vous chez […]
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Birkbeck, University of London, is now accepting enrolments for its short course ‘An Introduction to Lacan’ which starts in January. Full details and how to sign up: http://bit.ly/nHgqse Lacanian analyst Darian Leader will be discussing Lacanian diagnosis in a public lecture at the University of Sussex on Friday 16th September. More details: http://bit.ly/rq0sNE Coming up […]
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Lacanian psychoanalyst Darian Leader on Anders Behring Breivik and the logic of madness: http://bit.ly/mZ5M4a Registration is now open for the VIII Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, which takes place from 23rd – 27th April 2012 in Buenos Aires. The theme is ‘The Symbolic Order in the 21st Century’: http://bit.ly/o9Cv3Z The Freud Museum London […]
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Where does resistance come from? The first question we have to ask about resistance is a very simple one: where exactly does resistance come from? In 1953, at the start of what were to become yearly seminars, Lacan pursues a close reading of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic technique. From the earliest days of his […]
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This article will examine the concepts of the subject of the statement and the subject of the enunciation, the relationship between them, and look at three examples of where these ideas might be applied. A first general point to make is on the choice of translation. The English which is most often employed does not bring […]
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For English-speaking students of Lacan’s work it is unfortunate how little this book is known. This short post attempts to rectify that by giving a shout-out for Krutzen’s marvellous work and to encourage its dissemination amongst English-speakers. Firstly, to address the obvious problem: this is a French book and is written in French. But if you […]
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We might begin by asking how it is that ‘acting out’ has come to be given the status of a concept in psychoanalysis? This is a valid question to start with because, if we turn to the Index of Stratchey’s Standard Edition of Freud’s complete work, it might surprise us that we find only two […]
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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 of their own shift in allegiance and recount in personal terms the reasons for their abandonment of the discipline. Perhaps the most celebrated amongst these […]
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