La conferencia Apertura de la sección clínica según Jacques Lacan, fue dictada en Vincennes el 5 de enero de 1977. La versión bilingüe que aquí presentamos, se inscribe en la corriente del estudio y resultado de...
Before he became an analyst, Lacan was a psychiatrist. The articles in the present volume would not be being republished if they didnât invite us to read them retroactively. What can they teach us about the formation of this future analy...
Sollers once wrote that, to him, Claudel was first and foremost the man who wrote, "Paradise is around us at this very moment, all its forests attentive like a great orchestra that invisibly adores and implores. The whole invention of the Universe...
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 extravagant. It cannot be grasped by those who might try to maste...
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 introduces the dimension of an especially playful wit that...
The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and womenâtheir most concrete, amorous, and sexual relations in everyday life, as well as in their dreams and fantasies. It has nothing to do with what biology studies under...
"Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. A whole...
In his famous seminar on ethics, Jacques Lacan uses this question as his departure point for a re-examination of Freud's work and the experience of psychoanalysis in relation to ethics. Delving into the psychoanalyst's inevitable involvement with...
Die Psychose ist eine von drei klinischen Strukturen. Die anderen sind Neuerose und Perversion. Die Psychose unterscheidet sich von beiden deutlich durch den Mechanismus der Verwerfung, während die Neurose durch den Zwang und die Perversion durch...
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the historyof psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the20th Century. In Anxiety , now available for the first timein English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that...
?Alcibiades attempted to seduce Socrates, he wanted to make him, and in the most openly avowed way possible, into someone instrumental and subordinate to what? To the object of Alcibiades? desire ? ágalma, the good object. I would go even further....
"I am the product of priests", Lacan once said of himself. Educated by the Marist Brothers (or Little Brothers of Mary), he was a pious child and acquired considerable, personal knowledge of the torments and cunning of Christian spirituality....
Jacques Lacan is widely recognized as a key figure in the history of psychoanalysis and one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. In Anxiety , now available for the first time in English, he explores the nature of anxiety, suggesting that...