L’Apocalypse selon saint Jacques 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 ...

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 Loeb

1890 1. Die SehstSrungen nach Verletzung der Grosshimrinde. Nach Versuchen am Hunde. I, Arch. ges. Physiol., 1884, xxxiv, 67-114. 2. Die Sehst6rungen nach Verletzung der Grosshirnrinde. Nach Versuchen am Hunde. II. Die Natur der Sehst6rungen, Arch. ges. Physiol., 1884, xxxiv, 115-172. 3. Die elementaren St6rungen einfacher Funktionen nach oberfl~chlicher, umschriebener Verletzung des Grosshirns...

Jacques Tits

Armand Borel As I Knew Him. I do not remember exactly when I first met Armand Borel. It may have been in Paris in 1949 or in Zürich in 1950. After that we often met, and we soon became good friends. He liked to recall jokingly that he was the one from whom I learned that there existed five exceptional simple Lie groups, the study of which became for a while, shortly afterward, my special trade....