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[[Lacan]] only published one book in his lifetime - [[Écrits]].<ref>[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. [[Écrits]]. [[Paris]]: [[Editions du Seuil]], [[{{Y}}|1966]].</ref> [[Écrits]] is not an introductory text but the summation of a lifetime's [[training|teaching]] and [[clinic]]al [[practice]]. Each paper contains a multiplicity of allusions and references that need to be unpacked, if we are to begin understanding [[Lacan]]'s ideas. "[[The Mirror Stage]]", for example, is only seven pages long, while "[[The Signification of the Phallus]]" is just nine, but each of these papers has generated volumes of explication, critique and applications.  
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[[Lacan]] only published one book in his lifetime - [[Écrits]].<ref>[[Jacques Lacan|Lacan, Jacques]]. [[Écrits]]. [[Paris]]: [[Editions du Seuil]], [[{{Y}}|1966]].</ref> [[Écrits]] is not an introductory [[text]] but the summation of a lifetime's [[training|teaching]] and [[clinic]]al [[practice]]. Each paper contains a [[multiplicity]] of allusions and references that [[need]] to be unpacked, if we are to begin [[understanding]] [[Lacan]]'s [[ideas]]. "[[The Mirror Stage]]", for example, is only seven pages long, while "[[The Signification of the Phallus]]" is just nine, but each of these papers has generated volumes of explication, critique and applications.  
  
  
 
==Translation==
 
==Translation==
The English translation, Écrits: A Selection by Alan Sheridan (London: Tavistock Publications, 1977), contains many of the key texts we have discussed in the preceding chapters: '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. A new translation of this selection has recently been produced by Bruce Fink (Écrits: A Selection, New York: Norton, 2002) but his translation of the complete Écrits is still awaited. Fink's extensively annotated translations will undoubtedly become the standard authoritative texts of Lacan in the coming years but as this is not yet the case all references in this introduction are to the Sheridan edition.
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The [[English]] [[translation]], [[Écrits: A Selection]] by Alan [[Sheridan]] ([[London]]: Tavistock Publications, 1977), contains many of the key [[texts]] we have discussed in the preceding chapters: '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. A new translation of this selection has recently been produced by [[Bruce Fink]] (Écrits: A Selection, New York: Norton, 2002) but his translation of the [[complete]] Écrits is still awaited. Fink's extensively annotated translations will undoubtedly become the standard authoritative texts of Lacan in the coming years but as this is not yet the [[case]] all references in this introduction are to the Sheridan edition.
  
  

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Lacan only published one book in his lifetime - Écrits.[1] Écrits is not an introductory text but the summation of a lifetime's teaching and clinical practice. Each paper contains a multiplicity of allusions and references that need to be unpacked, if we are to begin understanding Lacan's ideas. "The Mirror Stage", for example, is only seven pages long, while "The Signification of the Phallus" is just nine, but each of these papers has generated volumes of explication, critique and applications.


Translation

The English translation, Écrits: A Selection by Alan Sheridan (London: Tavistock Publications, 1977), contains many of the key texts we have discussed in the preceding chapters: '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. A new translation of this selection has recently been produced by Bruce Fink (Écrits: A Selection, New York: Norton, 2002) but his translation of the complete Écrits is still awaited. Fink's extensively annotated translations will undoubtedly become the standard authoritative texts of Lacan in the coming years but as this is not yet the case all references in this introduction are to the Sheridan edition.


   The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I
   Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis
   The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
   The Freudian Thing
   The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
   On a Question Preliminary to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis
   The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power
   The Signification of the Phallus
   The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious


References