News – June 2018
The new translation of Lacan’s nineteenth Seminar, from 1971-1972, …Or Worse was released in the UK at the end of June, and will be released in the US in...
News – May 2018
Among newly-announced upcoming publications, San Francisco-based Lacanian psychoanalyst Raul Moncayo’s Knowing, Not-Knowing, and Jouissance: Levels, Symbols, and Codes of Experience in Psychoanalysis will be released in September as part...
News – April 2018
Beginning with the latest publications in the Lacanian field, released last month was the new collection Unconscious Incarnations edited by Brian W. Becker, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, and David M....
News – March 2018
Starting with new publications out now and newly-announced, coming later in the year is Arka Chattopadhyay’s Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real, due to be released...
News – February 2018
Among newly announced publications, Routledge released The Lacan Tradition, at the end of February. Edited by Lionel Bailly, David Lichtenstein, and Sharmini Bailly it comprises papers from prominent Lacanians...
Amuse-Bouches III – The Obsessional Subjunctive
It is often said that psychoanalysts should look at structure, not surface symptoms, in order to make a clinical diagnosis. There are two problems with this. First, the definition...
News – January 2018
Three new works in the Lacanian canon were released last month. Firstly, Mahitosh Mandal’s Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture is especially interesting because it is perhaps the first...
News – December 2017
The year ended with the sad news of the passing of Judith Miller, President of the Foundation of the Freudian Field, wife of Jacques-Alain Miller, and daughter of Jacques...
VIDEO – What’s so Unconscious about the Unconscious?
A few months back I wrote a rather long article tracing the historical debate about the nature of the unconscious in psychoanalysis across three key turning points – 1915,...
News – November 2017
Announced last month for publication by Wiley in June 2018 is …or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX, the English translation of Lacan’s Seminar of 1971-1972. Dealing...