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Want to receive this news via email each month? Sign up here Planning for the 2020 Lacan’s Écrits Conference is gathering momentum, with just over a month to go until the Call for Papers deadline. Hosted by Lacan in Scotland, the Conference will take place September 12-13 at Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Conference […]

The English translation of Lacan’s Seminar IV is being prepared for publication by Polity, with its release date just announced for August this year. The Object Relation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book IV will be translated by Adrian Price, under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller, and is Lacan’s major seminar engaging with Klein and […]

Beginning with a round-up of new books published in the last month, Touria Mignotte’s Cruelty, Sexuality, and the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, Winnicott, and the Body of the Void was released at the start of December, aiming to integrate the life sciences and quantum physics with the themes in its title. Cruelty, she argues, […]

A petition against the exclusion of psychoanalysis and in support of diversity in research and care methods has been launched in Europe. It has been prompted by the latest attempt from the film maker Sophie Robert to have psychoanalysts ousted from the public sphere. Her campaign this time aims to prevent psychoanalysts from being able […]

Beginning with the most recent new book releases, and October saw the publication of Esoteric Lacan, edited by Philipp Valentini and Mahdi Tourage. As the first in-depth exploration of occultism, Sufism and the Kabbalistic tradition, it examines how different religious discourses influenced Lacan’s work. Critically examining the European understanding of these texts, it seeks to […]

LacanOnline visitors get 20% off and free global shipping on all Routledge titles. Use this link and the discount code on that page at the checkout. Beginning with new books, and released in September as part of the always-excellent Palgrave Lacan Series was Ed Pluth and Cindy Zeiher’s On Silence: Holding the Voice Hostage. Promoting a Lacanian approach […]