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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)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 33: The Real and The Social Bond: British Psychiatry and the War

Edited by Jacques Lacan, Eric Laurent

This is a print-only limited edition, in a brand new format, of a Jacques Lacan classic: British Psychiatry and the War(1947), published together with Éric Laurent’s incisive commentary, “The Real... (more)

Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch

by Stephanie Swales, Carol Owens

Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a... (more)

Using Lacanian Clinical Technique: An Introduction

by Philip Hill

This book is intended to help those who work, or wish to work, privately, in multidisciplinary teams, general practices and schools and addresses two different sorts of reader: the complete beginner,... (more)

The Lacanian Review: Issue 8: Nightmare

Edited by Marie-Hélène Brousse, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff

The Lacanian Review (TLR) takes Lacan’s proposition that we wake up in order to continue dreaming, with eyes wide open. What wakes us up? The Nightmare.

With new translations of Jacques Lacan... (more)

Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation

by Guy Le Gaufey

Lacan and the Formulae of Sexuation provides the first critical reading of Lacan's formulae of sexuation, examining both their logical consistency and clinical consequences. Are there two different... (more)

The Lacanian Review: Issue 7: Get Real

Edited by Marie-Hélène Brousse, Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff

In our Post-Truth era, reality is under attack. The contemporary moment is disoriented by fake new, chatbots, conspiracy theories and a digital flood of leaks, lies and revelations. On hold with... (more)

Desire and its Interpretation: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book VI

by Jacques Lacan

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)

Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan

by Sergio Benvenuto

Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan brings a unique, non-partisan approach to the work of Jacques Lacan, linking his psychoanalytic theory and ideas to broader debates in... (more)

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Sympton

by Pierre Bruno

Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom provides an incisive commentary on Lacan's reading of Marx, mapping the relations between these two vastly influential thinkers. Unlike previous books,... (more)

Reading French Psychoanalysis

Edited by Dana Birksted-Breen, Alain Gibeault

How has psychoanalysis developed in France in the years since Lacan so dramatically polarized the field? In this book, Dana Birksted-Breen and Sara Flanders of the British Psychoanalytical Society,... (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVI: From an Other to the Other

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

Making Sense

by Martin Stanton

Like Homer’s Odyssey, this is an epoch-changing classic that takes a timely quantum leap from a cognitive world of straight-line argument and causal interpretation, into a parallel unconscious... (more)

Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire

Edited by Carol Owens, Nadezhda Almqvist

This is the first collection of essays to offer a comprehensive analysis of, and reflection on, the major themes emergent in Jacques Lacan's seminars of 1955-56 and 1956-57: Seminar IV - the object... (more)

The Lacanian Review: Issue 6: URGENT!

Edited by Marie-Hélène Brousse

For its 6th issue, The Lacanian Review (TLR) tasks the signifier, Urgent!, to orient the work of the New Lacanian School (NLS) in examining the urgent cases that occupy our clinic. Tracing the edge... (more)

The Law of the Mother: An Essay on the Sexual Sinthome

by Genevieve Morel

The law of the mother is made up of words charged with pleasure and suffering that leave their mark on us in early childhood. In this groundbreaking book, Genevieve Morel explores whether it is... (more)

Psychoanalytical Notebooks No. 32: Lacanian Politics and the Impasses of Democracy Today

Edited by Roger Litten

Editorial, Bogdan Wolf

Orthodoxy and Heresy

Jacques-Alain Miller, Heretics

Domenico Cosenza, The Heretic and the Orthodox

Francesca Biagi-Chai, Choice and Its Logic in... (more)

Formations of the Unconscious: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book V

by Jacques Lacan

'When I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a small enquiry. It will come as no surprise at all that I began by questioning a poet. This is a poet who... (more)