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 ...

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 ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the philosophical waters, two large French warships turn up off our coastline, aided and abetted by Australian translators. Seminar XVII is the ...

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 ...

Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy is more a book about the work of the rogue Parisian psychoanalyst Lacan than one about comedy. The last forty years have seen an explosion of excellent research into ...

Psychoanalysis is a field of psychology that explores the unconscious mind, and how it shapes human behavior and experience. One of the most prominent figures in the history of psychoanalysis is ...

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 ...