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 Conceptual–Theoretical Period

Early Seminars: Imaginary & Ego Critique (1953–1956

Return to Freud, critique of ego psychology, mirror relations, and paranoia.

• Seminar I
• Seminar II
• Seminar III

Early–Middle Seminars: Symbolic Order & Language (1956–1963)

Desire, law, the Other, and the linguistic structuring of the unconscious.

• Seminar IV
• Seminar V
• Seminar VI
• Seminar VII
• Seminar VIII
• Seminar IX
• Seminar X

Middle Seminars: Object a, Anxiety, and the Real (1964–1970)

The object cause of desire, anxiety, fantasy, and discourse.

• Seminar XI
• Seminar XII
• Seminar XIII
• Seminar XIV
• Seminar XV
• Seminar XVI
• Seminar XVII

Late Seminars: Jouissance, Sexuation, and Topology (1971–1980)

Feminine jouissance, formulas of sexuation, knots, and the sinthome.

• Seminar XVIII
• Seminar XIX
• Seminar XX
• Seminar XXI
• Seminar XXII
• Seminar XXIII
• Seminar XXIV
• Seminar XXV
• Seminar XXVI
• Seminar XXVII

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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