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News – October 2021

October 10, 2021October 10, 2021Owen HewitsonLeave a Comment on News – October 2021

Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here. 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. Beginning with the latest books out now and coming soon, and Diego Busiol’s Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Practice: Insights from Fourteen Psychoanalysts […]

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News – September 2021

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Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here. 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. The Palgrave Lacan Series continues to produce exciting new work in Lacanian psychoanalysis, with two new titles released over the summer […]

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News – May 2021

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Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here. 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. Beginning with upcoming events in the Lacanian calendar, on Fri 18th June Professor Stijn Vanheule will give a public lecture on […]

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What is Primal Repression?

May 22, 2021September 11, 2021Owen HewitsonLeave a Comment on What is Primal Repression?

Final part of a short series of videos introducing the concept of repression in psychoanalysis. In this bonus video, we look at the concept of ‘primal’ repression, tracing the idea from early psychology, through Freudian psychoanalysis, and how Lacan develops it in theory practice. Check out the other videos in this series, and videos on […]

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News – April 2021

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News – March 2021

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News – February 2021

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Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here. 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. Lacan’s Seminar IV, The Object Relation, was published by Polity last month in the UK and Europe, and will be available […]

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News – January 2021

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Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here. 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles for LacanOnline.com readers. Use this link and code S031 at the checkout. Beginning the year with excellent news, the Sigourney Trust last month announced the winners of The Sigourney Award 2020 for ground-breaking […]

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News – December 2020

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News – November 2020

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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.

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