Although Lacan's notion of "university discourse" circulates widely today, it is seldom used in its precise meaning (designating a specific "discourse," social link). As a rule, it functions as a ...

A new biography explores the power dynamics of psychoanalysis. By Juliet Jacques Known as an unorthodox psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan hated the thought of being misinterpreted. A ...

If controversial French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan famously called for a “return to Freud,” then the renewed interest in his work both inside and outside the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences might ...

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Give him these forty-five minutes and he’ll turn your mind inside out. It’s up to the viewer to decide whether this result is desirable. In a filmed lecture from 1974, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan ...

In psychanalyse a two part documentary the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan answers to questions submitted by his soninlaw JacquesAlain Miller under the direction of Benoit Jacquot The Office de ...

My first week with my new kitten Evelyn has reminded me of French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan’s discussion of the childhood game Hide-and-Seek or in Freud’s parlance “fort/da” — an ...