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Until the publication of his<i>Écrits</i> (Writings), Jacques Lacan's only published book was his doctoral thesis in medicine, <i>De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité</i> (<i>On paranoid psychosis in its relations with personality</i>; 1932), written from a psychiatric, rather than psychoanalytic, perspective.</p>
<p>In the 1960s Lacan was asked by several of his students and by his friend François Wahl, of the publishing house Seuil, to collect his writings in a single volume. The considerable success of <i>De...</i></p></div></div>
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Lacan only published one book in his lifetime - ''Écrits'' (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1966), and oversaw the editing of the first of his seminars - ''Le Séminaire de Jacques Lacan, Livre XI: Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse'' (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1973). The English translation, ''Écrits: A Selection'' by Alan Sheridan (London: Tavistock Publications, 1977) contains key texts such as "The Mirror Stage", "The Rome Discourse," "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious," "The Meaning of the Phallus" and "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire," but it still only consists of one-third of the French edition.
