Jacques-Alain Miller
Jacques-Alain Miller is Director of the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII and editor of Lacan’s Seminars.
Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 34: Paradigms of Jouissance
We have compiled a series of three texts selected from Jacques-Alain Miller’s interventions on Lacan’s teaching. This provides reference points to Miller’s trajectory through questions arising from... (more)
Desire and its Interpretation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book VI
What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is... (more)
...or Worse: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIX
"A chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella. The impossible face-off between a whale and a polar bear. One was devised by Lautréamont; the other punctuated by Freud. Both are memorable. Why... (more)
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60
Includes discussion of the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, and the essence of tragedy.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan I: Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-54
Includes discussion of the role of the imaginary, resistance, the ideal ego and ego ideal, and the function of speech in psychoanalysis.
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'.
My Teaching
Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, My Teaching is a clear, concise... (more)
On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge - Encore 1972-1973: Seminar XX
An annotated translation of Jacques Lacan's seminar weighing up theories of the relationship between the desire for love and the attainment of knowledge. The text draws upon the work of such diverse... (more)
The Pathology of Democracy: A Letter to Bernard Accoyer and to Enlightened Opinion - JLS Supplement (Ex-tensions)
On Wednesday 8 October 2003, the French National Assembly passed a bill intended to regulate, for the first time, the practice of psychotherapy in France. Moved by Bernard Accoyer, the purpose of the... (more)
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)