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...
News – October 2017
First, new publications, and as heralded in last month’s update October saw the release of a new collection of seminars Lacan gave in the early seventies under the title...
Amuse-Bouches II – Testimony and the Pass
Who is ‘allowed’ to tell your story? Are you and you alone the only one that can represent your unique experience, past, and identity? Or is it sometimes okay...
News – September 2017
As we enter autumn and a new academic year, plenty of new titles in the Lacanian field have started appearing. Of those published last month, Karnac released Antonio Quinet’s...
Amuse-Bouches I – The Yerodia Case
This is Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi, helping Lacan into his car as he leaves his seminar in March, 1980. And this is Yerodia again, around the time of the international...
News – August 2017
New publications first, and Derek Hook’s Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and identification in psychology and psychoanalysis was released last month by Routledge. The book introduces Lacanian psychoanalysis to...
News – July 2017
Among new publications released last month, Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child, a collection under the editorship of Carol Owens and Stephanie Farrelly...
News – June 2017
Published last month by Karnac Books, as part of the CFAR Library, was Luis Izcovich’s The Marks of a Psychoanalysis. Izcovich’s book looks at the effects of analysis, what...
News – May 2017
A special conference in Madrid on 13th May brought together psychoanalysts of the Lacanian orientation, in the wake of the French presidential elections, to discuss what the future role...