• Lacan
  • Freud
  • News
  • Blog
  • Videos
  • Appointments
  • Find a Lacanian Psychoanalyst
  • Links
  • Quotes
  • Join
  • About

Select Page:

Select Category:

LACANONLINE.COM

Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan

  • Lacan
  • Freud
  • Blog
  • News
  • Videos
  • Appointments
Blog

Amuse-Bouches V – What Makes a Trauma Traumatic? (Part II)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       March 9, 2019      Blog     2 Comments
In Part I we looked at the history of trauma theory and framed its various debates against the backdrop of two key problems that any theory of trauma has...
Continue Reading »
News

News – February 2019

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       March 7, 2019      News     No Comment
A special offer from Routledge to all LacanOnline.com visitors – from now and until further notice LacanOnline.com readers will get a 20% discount and free global shipping on all...
Continue Reading »
Blog

Amuse-Bouches IV – What Makes a Trauma Traumatic? (Part I)

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       February 25, 2019      Blog     3 Comments
Trauma often appears to be a very broadly-spread notion in psychotherapy. Its urgency in clinical settings seems to outpace the theoretical rigour we can give it, leading the label...
Continue Reading »
News

News – January 2019

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       February 12, 2019      News     No Comment
Among new books released last month was the collection Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious, edited by Patricia Gherovici and Christopher Christian. Refuting the accusation that...
Continue Reading »
News

News – December 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       January 6, 2019      News     1 Comment
Newly-published by Routledge last month was Islamic Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Islam, a new volume edited by Ian Parker and Sabah Siddiqui. It follows the 2017 international conference organised by...
Continue Reading »
News

News – November 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       December 12, 2018      News     1 Comment
Plenty of new books published in the last month, due for release before the end of the year, or newly-announced for the first half of 2019. In November, writer...
Continue Reading »
News

News – October 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       November 4, 2018      News     No Comment
The 2019 Lacan’s Écrits Conference has been announced for 11th-13th October 2019 at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. Organized by the Duquesne Psychology Department, it follows the first Lacan’s Écrits Conference...
Continue Reading »
News

News – September 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       October 14, 2018      News     No Comment
Alain Badiou’s Lacan, drawn from his year-long anti-philosophy seminar on Lacan, has now been published by Columbia University Press. In it, Badiou approaches Lacan as one such anti-philosopher, arguing...
Continue Reading »
News

News – August 2018

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       September 16, 2018      News     1 Comment
Several new publications are due for release in the coming months. Firstly, coming out on 12th October is a translation of Colette Soler’s Lacan Reading Joyce, courtesy of the...
Continue Reading »
Blog

The Unconscious of ‘Things’

Owen Hewitson - LacanOnline.com       August 13, 2018      Blog     1 Comment
We’re going to start with a naive question – what is the ‘stuff’ of the unconscious? This short article is about the unconscious of ‘things’, and if we think...
Continue Reading »
« Previous 1 … 3 4 5 … 20 Next »
Youtube 13,600Subscriber
Facebook 5,006Fans
Twitter 4,552Followers
Instagram 1,018Followers

LacanOnline.com is a site for exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst, 1901 - 1981.
Trained as a psychiatrist, he abandoned the profession in favour of psychoanalysis in the early thirties. After publishing his paper on the Mirror Stage in 1949, for which he is probably best known to the general public, in the early fifties Lacan embarked on a project he called the 'Return to Freud'.

Lacan began holding yearly seminars, starting in 1952, re-examining Freud's work. At the time, the theory and technique of psychoanalysis was facing a complete overhaul at the hands of post-Freudian psychoanalysts, many of whom had emigrated to the United States after the war. Lacan railed against their teaching of Freud, seeing it as an oversimplification of his work and a corruption of psychoanalytic technique reducing it to the status of life management. Through his seminars he offered another interpretation of Freud's work and psychoanalytic theory. Inventive, radical and adventurous, many still believe Lacan's to be a creative mis-reading of Freud.

However Lacan's seminars grew in popularity and as his teaching developed from a reading of Freud's text to an elaboration of his own concepts his teaching became more influential. Lacan continued to give yearly seminars until the year before his death in 1981. By that time, he had become a major intellectual figure in public life and had both created and disbanded his own school, separating his members both from the established psychoanalytic institutions and from each other.

Today, Lacanian theory is advanced by a number of disparate groupings of his followers and the technique of psychoanalysis he developed is practiced clinically by Lacanian analysts around the world.

Copyright © 2021. LACANONLINE.COM
Mesocolumn Theme by Dezzain
This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.AcceptReject Read More

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-necessary

Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.