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Jacques-Marie
Émile Lacan
13/04/1901 - 9/09/1981
Lacan was a French doctor who studied
neurology, psychiatry and became a Psychoanalyst.
His work calls for a return to Freud. He
communicated his ideas through seminars and conferences which were
published in 1966. His work is found in his 26 seminars called Le
Séminaire published from 1973, under the direction of his son
in law, Jacques-Alain Miller.
The field of action of psychoanalysis then lies in
speech, where the unconscious manifests itself through slips,
oversights, jokes and stories of dreams, finally, those phenomena
which Lacan names like "formations of the unconscious." In
this respect the Lacanian aphorism "the unconscious is
structured like a language".
For some mysterious reason the psychology and counselling students do not receive any information about him in the universities in Australia.
For some mysterious reason the psychology and counselling students do not receive any information about him in the universities in Australia.
The Seminar
“Chronological list
Book
|
Years
|
Title
|
I
|
1953-54
|
Book I: Les écrits techniques de Freud (Seuil,
1975)
Translated by J. Forrester as Freud's Technical Papers (Cambridge UP/Norton, 1988) |
II
|
1954-55
|
Book II: Le
moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la
psychanalyse (Seuil, 1978)
Translated by S. Tomaselli as The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (Cambridge UP/Norton, 1988) |
III
|
1955-56
|
Book III: Les psychoses (Seuil, 1981)
Translated by R. Grigg as The Psychoses (Routledge/Norton, 1993) |
IV
|
1956-57
|
Book IV: La relation d'objet et les structures freudiennes
(Seuil, 1994)
|
V
|
1957-58
|
Book V: Les formations de l'inconscient (Seuil, 1998)
|
VI
|
1958-59
|
Book VI: Le désir et son interprétation (La Martinière
2013)
Selected lessons published in Ornicar ? 24-25 and translated by J. Hulbert in Yale French Studies 55/56, 11-22. |
VII
|
1959-60
|
Book VII: L'éthique de la psychanalyse (Seuil,
1986)
Translated by D. Porter as The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Routledge/Norton, 1992) |
VIII
|
1960-61
|
Book VIII: Le transfert (2nd edition Seuil, 2001)
|
IX
|
1961-62
|
Book IX: L'identification
|
X
|
1962-63
|
Book X: L'angoisse (Seuil, 2004)
Translated by A. R. Price as Anxiety (Polity, 2014) |
-
|
1963
|
The "Inexistent" Seminar. Introduction published as Les
Noms du père (Seuil, 2005)
Translated by J. Mehlman as "Introduction to 'The Names of the Father' Seminar", in Television/A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, 1990 |
XI
|
1964
|
Book XI: Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse
(Seuil, 1973)
Translated by A. Sheridan as The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Hogarth, 1977) |
XII
|
1964-65
|
Book XII: Problèmes cruciaux pour la psychanalyse
|
XIII
|
1965-6
|
Book XIII: L'objet de la psychanalyse
|
XIV
|
1966-67
|
Book XIV: La logique du fantasme
|
XV
|
1967-68
|
Book XV: L'acte psychanalytique
|
XVI
|
1968-69
|
Book XVI: D'un Autre à l'autre (Seuil, 2006)
|
XVII
|
1969-70
|
Book XVII: L'envers de la psychanalyse (Seuil,
1991)
Translated by R. Grigg as The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Norton, 2007) |
XVIII
|
1971
|
Book XVIII: D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant
(Seuil, 2006)
Lesson VI translated by P. Dravers in Hurly-Burly 9, 15-28 |
XIX
|
1971-72
|
Book XIX: ...ou pire (Seuil, 2011)
Three lessons at Sainte-Anne published as Je parle aux murs (Seuil, 2011) |
XX
|
1972-73
|
Book XX: Encore, (Seuil, 1975)
Translated by B. Fink as Encore, On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge (Norton, 1998) |
XXI
|
1973-74
|
Book XXI: Les non-dupes errent
|
XXII
|
1974-75
|
Book XXII RSI
Lessons published in Ornicar ? 2-5 |
XXIII
|
1975-76
|
Book XXIII Le sinthome (Seuil, 2005)
|
XXIV
|
1976-77
|
Book XXIV: L'insu que sait de l'une-bévue s'aile à mourre
Lessons published in Ornicar ? 12-18 |
1977-78
|
Le moment de conclure
|
|
XXVI
|
1978-79
|
La topologie et le temps
|
XXVII
|
1980
|
Dissolution
Lessons published in Ornicar ? 20-23” (Wikipedia, retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminars_of_Jacques_Lacan) |
O Seminário
Seminário
1 - “Os escritos técnicos de Freud” (1953-54)
Seminário
2 - “O eu na teoria de Freud e na técnica da psicanálise”
(1954-55)
Seminário
3 - “As psicoses” (1955-56)
Seminário
4 - “A relação de objeto” (1956-57)
Seminário
5 - “As formações do inconsciente” (1957-58)
Seminário
6 - “Les désir et son interprétation” (1958-59)
Seminário
7 - “A ética da psicanálise” (1959-60)
Seminário
8 - “A transferência” (1960-61)
Seminário 9 - “L’identification” (1961-62)
Seminário
10 - “A Angústia” (1962-63)
Seminário
11 - “Os quatro conceitos fundamentais da psicanálise” (1964)
Seminário
12 - “Problèmes cruciaux pour la psychanalyse” (1964-65)
Seminário
13 - “L’objet de la psychanalyse” (1965-66)
Seminário
14 - “La logique du fantasme” (1966-67)
Seminário
15 - “L’acte psychanalytique” (1967-68)
Seminário
16 - “De um Outro ao outro” (1968-69)
Seminário
17 - “O avesso da psicanálise” (1969-70)
Seminário
18 - “D’un discours qui ne serait pás du semblant” (1970-71)
Seminário
19 - “...Ou pire” (1971-72)
Seminário
20 - “Mais, ainda” (1972-73)
Seminário
21 - “Les non-dupes errent” (1973-74)
Seminário
22 - “R.S.I.” (1974-75)
Seminário 23 - “O Sinthoma” (1975-76)
Seminário 24 - “L’insu que sait de l’une bévue
s’aile à mourre” (1976-77)
Seminário 25 - “Le moment de conclure” (1977-78)
Seminário 26 - “La topologie et le temps” (1978-79)”
(Wikipedia,
retrieved from http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan)