Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) came to psychoanalysis by way of medicine and psychiatry. In 1951 he turned his attention to the training of analysts, and this was one of the issues which led him and his circle to part company with the Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He became, in 1953, the first President of a new group, the Société Française de Psychanalyse, whose declared aim was a return to the true teaching of Freud. Eleven years later the Société Française was dissolved and, under Lacan's direction, gave birth to the École Freudienne de Paris. Jacques Lacan was a practising psychoanalyst and teacher up until his death in 1981.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIV: The Logic of Phantasy
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIII: The Object of Psychoanalysis
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Jacques Lacan: Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst 1971-1972
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVIII: On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VIII: Transference
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VI: Desire and its Interpretation
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVI: From an Other to the Other
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XXIII: Joyce and the Sinthome 1975-1976
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On a Discourse that Might not Be a Semblance: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII
The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and women—their most concrete, amorous, and sexual relations in everyday life, as well as in their dreams and fantasies. It has nothing... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan X: Anxiety
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVII: Psychoanalysis Upside-Down
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan V: The Formations of the Unconscious
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955
Discusses the Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, the relation of the symbol and the machine, repetition, and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Purloined Letter'.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIX: ...Ou Pire/...Or Worse 1971-1972
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XX: Encore
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Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English
Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law and enjoyment. This new translation of his... (more)
The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized linguistics, philosophy, literature, psychology, cultural... (more)
The Seminar of Jaques Lacan Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
Revolutionary and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicentre of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference and enjoyment. This new translation of Lacan's deliberation... (more)
The Triumph of Religion
"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the... (more)
On the Names-of-the-Father
'What astonishing success The Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and... (more)
Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book X
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In this new translation of Anxiety, he explores the... (more)
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis
Dr Lacan's writings, and especially the seminars for which he has become famous, have provoked intense controversies in French analytic circles, requiring as they do a radical reappraisal of the... (more)
Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book X
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In this new translation of Anxiety, he explores the... (more)
On the Names-of-the-Father
What astonishing success The Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and... (more)
The Triumph of Religion
'I am the product of priests', Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the... (more)
The Sinthome: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book XXIII
"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders... (more)