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Beginning with the latest new book releases, Anca Carrington’s The Unconscious as Space: From Freud to Lacan, and Beyond has just been published by Routledge. Exploring psychoanalysis by thinking of the unconscious in terms of mathematical space – from dimension theory to algebraic topology and knot theory – Carrington advances the thesis that the unconscious is structured like a space marked by impossibility. A 20% discount when ordering via the publishers Routledge with the code SMA22 is available until the end of July.

Bruce Fink’s latest, Miss-ing: Psychoanalysis 2.0, is out now from Aeon. Taking inspiration from Lacan’s idea that “Human beings cannot help but consider themselves to be [. . .] missing something”, this collection of Fink’s essays explores the idea of lack under different themes, such as mis-translations, mis-speakings, and mis-calculations.

Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice is a new collection of essays edited by Dan Collins and Eve Watson tackling this difficult analytic concept in its clinical, theoretical, historical, and cultural aspects. Its twenty chapters go some way to rectifying the under-theorisation of the drive, while bringing it into connection with the clinic, art, and culture to demonstrate the breadth of its conceptualisation from Freud to Lacan.

Daniel Gaztambide’s Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch was published by Palgrave Macmillan last month. With a rigorous decolonial approach rethinking psychoanalytic theory and technique, Gaztambide re-examines Freudian, Lacanian, and relational-interpersonal orientations through Fanon’s radical decolonial work. Derek Hook’s interview with the author, on Fanon, Lacan, and the Decolonial, is now on YouTube (in 4 parts).

Alenka Zupančič’s latest is on Disavowal and was published by Polity last month. Here she argues that it is through the concept of disavowal that we can best understand our contemporary response to disturbing events such as climate change and increasing political tensions. Insofar as disavowal both acknowledges and rejects such disturbances – “I know well, but all the same…” – Zupančič sees this attitude as the key mechanism behind the libidinal economy of contemporary capitalism.

Also out now is Negativity in Psychoanalysis: Theory and Clinic, edited by Duane Rousselle and Mark Gerard Murphy. Where usually the concept of negativity is employed either in relation to the death drive, or with reference to philosophies of negativity, the contributors to this volume go beyond this to comment on cultural and clinical questions such as resistance, mourning, creativity and trauma. Rouselle’s latest book, Psychoanalytic Sociology: A New Theory of the Social Bond is forthcoming in September from Bloomsbury and was written during the outbreak of the Russian invasion of Ukraine during which time the author was a refugee.

Turning to upcoming events, CFAR’s Annual Lecture will take place Sat 6th July on ‘Interpretation – Lacanian Perspectives.’ Speakers include Diana Kamienny, Helen Sheehan, Eve Watson, and Anne Worthington. Attendance is offered either in-person in London or via Zoom.

Psychoanalysis Pakistan is now offering a summer teaching programme taking place over July and August, in-person at Aga Khan University in Karachi, and via Zoom. Full details on their Instagram.

Colette Soler will be the guest of the Lacanian Forum of London and CFAR in October for a presentation of her recently-translated book Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter, addressing the theme of identification and identity in the psychoanalytic clinic as elaborated by Jacques Lacan over the course of his teaching. Tickets are available for in-person bookings now, with an online participation option available shortly. Full details are on the Forum of London’s site.

On YouTube, Lacan in Scotland’s book launch event for the final volume of the ‘Reading Lacan’s Écrits‘ series last month was a special session featuring several contributors to the four-volume series, alongside the editors Professors Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Lacan in Scotland’s own Calum Neill. Reflecting on their engagement with Lacan’s work were Christopher Reed Johnson, Sinan Richards, Carol Owens, Dylan Evans, Eve Watson, and Dominiek Hoens.

Prof. Dr. Samuel McCormick continues his Lectures on Lacan series, offering close, concise, and accessible readings of Lacan’s work. Check out the latest in the podcast series following the two Seminars that Lacan delivered over 1971-1972 – ‘The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge’ and ‘… Or Worse‘. Subscribe to stay up to date with new content from the summer series on Lacan’s infamously difficult late text, L’Étourdit.

The NLS Cartels Newsletter, 4+One, no.20, is now available (link downloads the newsletter from the NLS site). Texts are by cartelisands (members of cartels) who have presented their work at an intercartel event in their Society, Group, or Initiative.

Some more great updates on Richard G. Klein’s Freud2Lacan.com over the past month. The transcript of Lacan’s clinical presentation with a Mlle Vivianne (from April 1976) is now available (number 114 on the Lacan page), alongside the transcript of Lacan’s session with a Monsieur A.H., a 52 year old hospital cleaner suffering from persecutory and obsessional thoughts (number 113 on the Lacan page). The latter case also includes the psychiatric report that Lacan would have read before his consultation. Also, under the Autres Écrits section on the Lacan page (number 152) there are three new translations from Lacan’s final Seminar, Dissolution, from the sessions on Nov 13th, 20th, and Dec 11th 1980, and the letter of dissolution that Lacan wrote to Le Monde in January 1980.

Finally, readers may want to know that the new wholly updated 24-volume set of the Revised Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud has now been published. Revised, supplemented and edited by Mark Solms, the RSE is founded on the Strachey Standard Edition but features a new layer of revisions, translations, annotations, editorial commentaries, plus the 56 essays and letters which were not included in the original Standard Edition. Full details and links to order here.

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