Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
In The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Freud links the experience of déjà vu to unconscious fantasies. Rather than focusing on ‘here and now’ of the person’s physical or mental state, or what they are doing at the time, Freud detects the influence of an unconscious dynamic stemming from repressed desires. Thus “It is in my view wrong […]
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Our desires are not our own, they are the Other’s There are two relatively straightforward ways in which we can understand one of Lacan’s most well-known maxims, that “Man’s desire is the desire of the Other”? (Seminar XI, p.235). Firstly, that desire is essentially a desire for recognition from this ‘Other’; secondly that desire is […]
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Lacan’s My Teaching: A Review An abridged version of this paper was published in the Annual Review of Critical Psychology, 7: Lacan and Critical Psychology, which is available in full via this link All quotations refer to Jacques Lacan, My Teaching, Translated by David Macey, Verso:London, 2008, unless otherwise stated This text is a translation […]
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Seminar III – The Psychoses 1955 – 1956 Chapter II – The Meaning of Delusion (All quotations refer to The Psychoses, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated with notes by Russell Grigg, Routledge: 1993) The first few remarks in this session recap one of the main points that Lacan made in the introductory […]
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Seminar III – The Psychoses 1955 – 1956 Chapter I – Introduction to the Question of the Psychoses (All quotations refer to The Psychoses, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated with notes by Russell Grigg, Routledge: 1993) It is worth starting our commentary on this first chapter of Seminar III, on the psychoses, by […]
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Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter XIV – The Dream of Irma’s Injection (conclusion) (All quotations refer to The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954 -1955, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Sylvana […]
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Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter XIII – The Dream of Irma’s Injection (All quotations refer to The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954 -1955, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Sylvana Tomaselli, […]
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Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter XI – Censorship is not Resistance (All quotations refer to The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954 -1955, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Sylvana Tomaselli, with notes […]
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Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter VII – The Circuit (All quotations refer to The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954 -1955, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Sylvana Tomaselli, with notes by […]
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Seminar II – The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 1954 – 1955 Chapter VI – Freud, Hegel and the machine (All quotations refer to The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954 -1955, Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Sylvana Tomaselli, […]
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