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Lacan, Jacques (1901–81)

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List of works

  • Lacan, J. (1966) Écrits, Paris: éditions du Seuil; selections trans. A. Sheridan, Écrits: A Selection, New York: W.W. Norton, 1977.

    (Lacan’s major collection of writings, while containing such seminal pieces as the essay on the ‘mirror stage’ and the ‘Rome Discourse’, is extraordinarily difficult. Beginners are advised to start with ‘Le Séminaire’.)

  • Lacan, J. (1974) Télévision, Paris: Éditions du Seuil; trans. D. Hollier, R. Krauss, A. Michelson and J. Mehlman, ‘Television’ and ‘A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment’, ed. J. Copjec, New York: W.W. Norton, 1990. (Texts relating to the institutionalization of psychoanalysis including docments from Lacan’s secession from the Societé Psychoanalytique de Paris and his foundation of the École Freudienne de Paris.)

  • Lacan, J. (1975–94) Le Séminaire de Jacques Lacan, texte établi par Jacques-Lacan à Jacques-Alain Miller, vol. 1, Les Écrits techniques de Freud, vol. 2. Le Moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse, vol. 3, Les Psychoses, 1955–6, vol. 4, La Relation d’objet, 1956–7, vol. 7, L’éthique de la psychanalyse, 1959–60, vol. 8, Le Transfert, 1960–1, vol. 11, Les Quatre Concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse, vol. 17, L’Envers de la psychanalyse, 1969–70, vol. 20, Encore, Paris: Éditions du Seuil; vol. 1 trans. J. Forrester, Freud’s Papers on Technique, vol. 2 trans. S. Tomaselli, The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954–5, vol. 3 trans. R. Grigg, The Psychoses, 1955–6, vol. 7 trans. D. Porter, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, all ed. J.-A. Miller, New York: W.W. Norton.

    (Transciptions of Lacan’s weekly public teaching seminar which ran, with a few breaks, from 1953 until 1979–80. Far more accessible for the beginner than Écrits.)

  • Lacan, J. (1980) De la psychose paranoïque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité (On Paranoid Psychosis in its Relationship with the Personality), Paris: Éditions du Seuil.

    (Lacan’s 1932 doctoral thesis in psychiatry.)

  • Lacan, J. (1981) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, trans. A Sheridan, New York: W.W. Norton.

    (Lacan’s seminar for 1963 in an early translation.)

  • Lacan, J. and the École Freudienne (1982) Feminine Sexuality, New York: W.W. Norton.

    (Late writings on feminine sexuality by Lacan and various disciples.)

References and further reading

  • Boothby, R. (1991) Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan’s Return to Freud, New York: Routledge.

    (Boothby’s approach provides an excellent introduction to Lacan; by using the Freudian death drive, he ties together all of Lacan’s work in an extremely convincing and clear way.)

  • Weber, S.M. (1991) Return to Freud, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

    (Weber’s introduction to Lacan, translated from lectures originally delivered in German, locates his work within the context of French post-structuralism.)

  • Zizek, S. (1991) For They Know not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor, London and New York: Verso.

    (Zizek, perhaps the most brilliant interpreter of Lacan today, uses Lacan as a tool for interpreting political ideology.)

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