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Lacan’s Seminars
Jacques Lacan’s seminars (1953–1980) constitute the core of his teaching. Delivered orally and edited posthumously, they chart the development of Lacanian psychoanalysis from the return to Freud through topology and the sinthome.
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Seminars by Period
Early Seminars (I–VI, 1953–1959)
Return to Freud; ego, speech, imaginary and symbolic.
- Seminar I — Freud’s Technical Papers
- Seminar II — The Ego in Freud’s Theory
- Seminar III — The Psychoses
- Seminar IV — Object Relations
- Seminar V — Formations of the Unconscious
- Seminar VI — Desire and Its Interpretation
Ethics & Law (VII–VIII, 1959–1961)
Desire, law, transgression, and analytic ethics.
- Seminar VII — The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
- Seminar VIII — Transference
Structure & Identification (IX–XI, 1961–1964)
Identification, anxiety, and the Real.
- Seminar IX — Identification
- Seminar X — Anxiety
- Seminar XI — The Four Fundamental Concepts
Object a & Desire (XII–XVI, 1964–1969)
Object a, fantasy, desire, and the act.
- Seminar XII — Crucial Problems
- Seminar XIII — The Object of Psychoanalysis
- Seminar XIV — The Logic of Fantasy
- Seminar XV — The Psychoanalytic Act
- Seminar XVI — From an Other to the other
Discourse & Sexuation (XVII–XX, 1969–1973)
Discourses, jouissance, and sexual difference.
- Seminar XVII — The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
- Seminar XVIII — On a Discourse that Might Not Be a Semblance
- Seminar XIX — ...Or Worse
- Seminar XX — Encore
Topology & the Sinthome (XXI–XXVII, 1973–1980)
Borromean knots, writing, and late formalization.
- Seminar XXI — Les non-dupes errent
- Seminar XXII — RSI
- Seminar XXIII — The Sinthome
- Seminar XXIV — L’insu
- Seminar XXV — The Moment to Conclude
- Seminar XXVI
- Seminar XXVII
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