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...
News – April 2017
More new publications arrived in April or were announced for release in the coming months. The collection Perversion Now!, edited by Diana Caine and Colin Wright, was published as...
What’s so Unconscious about the Unconscious?
What does it mean to say that something is ‘unconscious’? The idea of the unconscious is the single biggest differentiator separating psychoanalysis from all other ‘psy-’ practices. Fidelity to...
News – March 2017
The XIth Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, taking place in Barcelona 2nd-6th April 2018, now has its own site at newly-launched site at https://congresoamp2018.com/en/. The Argument for...
News – February 2017
The publication schedule for 2017 continues to promise a flurry of new releases over the coming months. Écrits translator Bruce Fink’s A Clinical Introduction to Freud will be one...
News – January 2017
The US Library of Congress has just released 20,000 documents from its Freud archive, making them available digitally online for the first time. It is an absolute treasure trove...
News – December 2016
Many new Lacanian publications that will be appearing in 2017 were announced last month. Starting with those out later in January, two new pieces from the Palgrave Lacan Series...
News – November 2016
Among new publications in November was Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, edited by Boštjan Nedoh and Andreja Zevnik. The book aims to present “a reconfiguration of the reception...
News – October 2016
Plenty of new books on Lacanian theory and practice were published or announced for publication last month. Perhaps fittingly so given that November marks the 50th anniversary of the...
Pornography and the Paradoxes of Pleasure – On the ‘Identity of Perception’
“It’s one thing to see images of an experience you had, but it’s another thing to have an experience of the experience. It was the closest I’d ever come...