Lacan revisited by Žižek

Lacan with

In 1953 Donald Winnicott was appointed to a committee by the then president of the IPA Heinz Hartman, to investigate the events surrounding and the resignations of various members of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the founding of the Société Française de Psychoanalyse. Lacan up to the moment of his resignation from the Paris Society, had been its President and was one of those that the co...

Latino Studies With Lacan

Jacques Lacan and French psychiatry

Jacques Lacan died in September 1981 at the age of 81. The French press, the mass media and several members of the French government all paid him tribute. For several years his name had been linked with that of Sigmund Freud, and he was often referred to as the French Freud. Students of medicine and the social sciences studied his writings, or pretended to read them. Even some secondary school ...

Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan

The Tragic Human and Desire in “the Ethics of Psychoanalysis” Seminar V11 of Lacan Sublimation in the Psychoanalysis of Lacan and Freud by Colin Leslie Dean