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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)

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)

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)

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

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XVIII: On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XV: The Psychoanalytic Act

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (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)

The Lacanian Review: Issue 2: Sex All Over the Place: Hurly-Burly: Journal of the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis

Edited by Veronique Voruz

Contents:

EDITORIAL

Véronique Voruz, Sex All Over The Place: “Fuck!”

THEMATIC SECTION: SEX ALL OVER THE PLACE

Jacques-Alain Miller, Truth is Coupled with Meaning

THE DIALOGUE

Jack... (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)

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)

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)

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)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan IX: Identification

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

The Seminar of Jacques Lacan XIV: The Logic of Phantasy

by Cormac Gallagher, Jacques Lacan

From unedited French manuscripts (more)

The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theories and Principles

by Raul Moncayo

The Practice of Lacanian Psychoanalysis lays out an Aristotelian framework to account for the different types of knowing and not-knowing operative in the theory and practice of... (more)

Thresholds and Pathways Between Jung and Lacan: On the Blazing Sublime

Edited by Ann Casement, Phil Goss

This groundbreaking book was seeded by the first-ever joint Jung-Lacan conference on the notion of the sublime held at Cambridge, England, against the backdrop of the 100th anniversary of the... (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)