Jacques Lacan Seminar Index

Jacques Lacan's Seminars form the core of his psychoanalytic teaching from 1953 to 1980. Delivered annually in Paris, the seminars explore and develop central Lacanian concepts such as the unconscious structured like a language, the mirror stage, the symbolic order, the Real, jouissance, and the four discourses.

This index provides a chronological list of Lacan’s seminars with links to detailed entries, publication details, and thematic overviews.

Index of Lacan's Seminars

No.	Title (English)	Title (French)	Years	Key Topics	Article
I	Freud’s Technical Writings	Les écrits techniques de Freud	1953–1954	Transference, resistance, speech, Freud's technique	Seminar I
II	The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis	Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse	1954–1955	Ego, mirror stage, imaginary, symbolic	Seminar II
III	The Psychoses	Les psychoses	1955–1956	Foreclosure, Name-of-the-Father, psychosis	Seminar III
IV	The Object Relation	La relation d’objet	1956–1957	Object a, maternal demand, object relation theory	Seminar IV
V	Formations of the Unconscious	Les formations de l’inconscient	1957–1958	Dream, joke, signifier, desire	Seminar V
VI	Desire and Its Interpretation	Le désir et son interprétation	1958–1959	Desire, interpretation, unconscious structure	Seminar VI
VII	The Ethics of Psychoanalysis	L’éthique de la psychanalyse	1959–1960	Ethics, desire, das Ding, Antigone	Seminar VII
VIII	Transference	Le transfert	1960–1961	Transference, love, analytic act, Symposium	Seminar VIII
IX	Identification	L’identification	1961–1962	Signifier, S1/S2, ego, object a	Seminar IX
X	Anxiety	L’angoisse	1962–1963	Anxiety, object a, desire, castration	Seminar X
XI	The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis	Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse	1964	Real, repetition, transference, drive	Seminar XI
XII	Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis	Problèmes cruciaux pour la psychanalyse	1964–1965	Object a, topology, logic	Seminar XII
XIII	The Object of Psychoanalysis	L’objet de la psychanalyse	1965–1966	Art, gaze, voice, drive	Seminar XIII
XIV	The Logic of Fantasy	La logique du fantasme	1966–1967	Fantasy, writing, discourse, logic	Seminar XIV
XV	The Psychoanalytic Act	L’acte psychanalytique	1967–1968	Act, analyst’s desire, truth	Seminar XV
XVI	From One Discourse to Another	D’un Autre à l’autre	1968–1969	Discourses, sexuation, logic	Seminar XVI
XVII	The Other Side of Psychoanalysis	L’envers de la psychanalyse	1969–1970	Four discourses, master, hysteric, university	Seminar XVII
XVIII	Of a Discourse that Would Not Be of the Semblant	D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant	1970–1971	Semblance, jouissance, truth	Seminar XVIII
XIX	… Or Worse	… Ou pire	1971–1972	Writing, woman, logic of sexuation	Seminar XIX
XX	Encore	Encore	1972–1973	Feminine jouissance, body, sinthome	Seminar XX
XXI	Les non-dupes errent	Les non-dupes errent	1973–1974	Knowledge, semblant, Real	Seminar XXI
XXII	RSI	RSI (Réel, Symbolique, Imaginaire)	1974–1975	Borromean knot, RSI topology	Seminar XXII
XXIII	The Sinthome	Le sinthome	1975–1976	Joyce, sinthome, knot theory	Seminar XXIII
XXIV	L’insu que sait de l’une-bévue s’aile à mourre	(pun on “l'inconscient” and “une bévue”)	1976–1977	Puns, sinthome, Real	Seminar XXIV
XXV	The Moment to Conclude	Le moment de conclure	1977–1978	End of analysis, Real, naming	Seminar XXV

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See also

• Jacques Lacan
• Psychoanalysis
• Freud and Lacan
• Seminar XI
• Mirror stage
• Symbolic order
• Four Discourses
• Sinthome
• Unconscious