Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
The Symbolic is the order of differences, relations and rules through which words acquire meaning and human beings acquire positions in relation to one another. It includes language, but it is not simply another name for vocabulary or communication. It encompasses kinship, law, social conventions, promises, prohibitions and the names by which we recognise ourselves […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Lacan on the Road: A Guide to His Talks, Lectures, and Interviews Away from the Seminar by Dan Collins has just been published as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. Its focus is on the vast number of lectures, […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Nostalgia, Fantasy, and the Futures of Masculinity by Timothy Richardson was published last month as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. Richardson uses Lacanian psychoanalysis to look at how contemporary masculinity is shaped by nostalgia-driven fantasies and how this […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Lacan Versus Foucault: Psychoanalysis on the Other Side of Norms by Aurélie Pfauwadel has just been published by the World Association of Psychoanalysis’ Libretto series. It offers a response to Foucault’s critique of psychoanalysis in The Will to Knowledge […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Lacan’s Seminar XIV, The Logic of Fantasy, was published by Polity last month, with English translation by Adrian Price and under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller. Currently it is available to buy now on Amazon UK, though in the […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications A Structuralist Approach in Psychiatry: Uncanny and Desire in Psychosis, by Jos de Kroon, has just been published by Routledge. Lacan is the inspiration alongside Foucault, Bergson, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Zizek for this alternative view of the psychiatric patient. […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Repetition and Subjectivity: Kierkegaard, Freud, Lacan by Bara Kolenc has just been published by State University of New York Press. A study of the psychoanalytic understanding of repetition, this book proposes a new approach to subjectivity using the concept, […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications The Paternal Imago in Ruins: Messianic Leadership and Constitutional Instability in Ecuador by Ernesto Espindola was published in January, and uses a Lacanian discourse analysis together with an interpretation of Freud’s Moses and Monotheism to think about the psycho-political […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications The Clinical Case in Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective by Luis Izcovich was released in English last month, translated by Patrick Boulard. Asking what makes a ‘case’ in psychoanalysis, Izcovich traces the responses to this question from Freud onwards, looking […]
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What is Jacques Lacan’s idea of object a? Where did Lacan’s idea come from, and what is the importance of object a in psychoanalysis? We will look at what in psychoanalysis is meant by the term ‘object’, how Freud thinks of it early in his work, and how Lacan builds on Freud’s idea of ‘the […]
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