Exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan
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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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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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity: The Metapsychology of Willy Apollon edited by Lucie Cantin, Jeffrey S. Librett, and Tracy Mcnulty, has just been published by State University of New York Press and engages with the work of the […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications On the Theory and Clinic of Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Speaking of Lacan by Chris Vanderwees has just been published by Routledge. A series of conversations with clinicians about their experiences of analytic practice, their formation, and their current research interests, […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications A Psychoanalysis of Act and Action by Diego Enrique Londoño-Paredes has just been published by Routledge, a study of the philosophy of action using Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. As well as examining the various forms in which Lacan describes the […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Lacan and the Question of Consent: Why Yielding is Not Consenting by Clotilde Leguil, translated by Domitille Krupka, is an intriguing new title that has just been published by Routledge. Exploring the boundary between these two terms, Leguil attempts […]
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One of the more helpful ways to understand what Lacan calls the ‘Real’ is as what emerges from the impossibilities or inconsistencies in the symbolic. This is not the only way to understand the Real, and it is not the only way Lacan presents it. But I will show that it is consistent with how […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Understanding Lacan’s Objet a, by Juan Pablo Lucchelli, has just been published by Routledge. Exploring the origin and significance of Lacan’s most unique contribution to psychoanalysis, Lucchelli begins by considering what we call an ‘object’ in psychoanalysis. Some of […]
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Sign up to the Newsletter to receive monthly updates on the latest Lacanian news New Publications Traumatic Neurosis Revisited: Drive-jouissance and the Wounds of Life by Leslie Chapman has just been published as part of the Palgrave Lacan Series. Chapman advances a view of trauma distinct from what he calls the “PTSD paradigm”, returning to […]
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