Author: Jacques Lacan

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 atten...

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...

Bringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain...

Before he became an analyst, Lacan was a psychiatrist. The articles in the present volume would not be being republished if they didnt invite us to...

The title is, at first glance, enigmatic. Clue: it concerns men and womentheir most concrete, amorous, and sexual relations in everyday life, as we...

The unfulfilled and unsatisfied mother around whom the child ascends the upward slope of his narcissism is someone real. She is right there, and li...

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 acq...

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 ...

The unfulfilled and unsatisfied mother around whom the child ascends the upward slope of his narcissism is someone real. She is right there, and li...

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 acq...

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 arab...

What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly bein...