Portal:Seminars

Lacan’s Seminars

   Jacques Lacan’s seminars (1953–1980) form the core of his teaching.
   Delivered orally and published posthumously, they trace the development
   of Lacanian psychoanalysis across language, desire, ethics, and topology.

Understanding the Seminars

The Seminar as Teaching

Orality, scansion, and Lacan’s pedagogical style.

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Publication & Translation

Editorial history, Miller editions, and translations.

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Seminars by Period

Early Seminars (1953–1960)

Lacan’s return to Freud and the foundations of his teaching.

• Seminar I
• Seminar II
• Seminar III
• Seminar IV

Structural and Linguistic Period

Seminars centered on language, structure, and the symbolic order.

• Seminar V
• Seminar VI
• Seminar VII
• Seminar XI

Late Seminars (1970–1981)

Topology, jouissance, and the limits of formalization.

• Seminar XVII
• Seminar XVIII
• Seminar XX
• Seminar XXIII

Seminars by Concept

Desire & Jouissance

How desire is reformulated across the seminars.

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Topology & Late Lacan

Borromean knots, sinthome, and formalization.

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Seminar Index

Complete list of seminars I–XXVII.

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Reading Guides

Suggested paths through the seminars.

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