Jacques Lacan

1901-81), French psychoanalyst. After receiving a medical degree, he became a psychoanalyst in Paris. Lacan was infamous for his unorthodox methods of treatment, such as the truncated therapy session, which often lasted only several minutes. A staunch critic of modern (particularly American) revisions of psychoanalytic theory, Lacan supported the traditional model of psychoanalysis espoused by Sigmund Freud. He argued that contemporary psychoanalytic theories had strayed too far from their roots in Freudian psychoanalysis, which held that there was constant conflict between the ego and the unconscious mind. Lacan argued that this conflict could not be resolved-the ego could not be "healed"-and pointed out that the true intention of psychoanalysis was analysis and not cure. His influential collection of papers, Ecrits (1966, trans. 1977), though notoriously difficult reading, has been highly influential in disciplines such as linguistics, film theory, and literary criticism.

Bibliography

Selected works published in English listed below. More complete listings can be found at Lacan Dot Com or Peter Krapp's

• The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis*, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1968
• Écrits: A Selection*, transl. by Alan Sheridan, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977, and revised version, 2002, transl. by Bruce Fink
• Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, transl. by Bruce Fink in collaboration with Héloïse Fink and Russell Grigg, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006
• The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
• The Seminar, Book I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954,, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by J. Forrester, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1988
• The Seminar, Book II. The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Sylvana Tomaselli, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1988.
• The Seminar, Book III. The Psychoses, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Russell Grigg, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1993.
• The Seminar, Book VII. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-1960, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Dennis Porter, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1992.
• The Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Alan Sheridan, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977.
• The Seminar XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Bruce Fink, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1998.
• Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, ed. Joan Copjec, trans. Jeffrey Mehlman, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1990.

*referenced above

Works about Lacan's Work and Theory

• Alain Badiou, "The Formulas of L'Etourdit" (New York: Lacanian Ink 27, 2006.)
• —————, "Lacan and the Pre-Socratics", Lacan Dot Com, 2006.
• Benvenuto, Bice; Kennedy, Roger, The Works of Jacques Lacan (London, 1986, Free Association Books.)
• Malcolm Bowie, Lacan (London: Fontana, 1991). (An introduction.)
• Dor, Joel, The Clinical Lacan (New York: Other Press, 1999)
• Dor, Joel, Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language (New York: Other Press, 2001)
• Elliott, Anthony and Frosh, Stephen (eds.), Psychoanalysis in Contexts: Paths between Theory and Modern Culture (London and New York: Routledge, 1995). (A recent overview.)
• Dylan Evans, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Routledge, 1996.
• Fink, Bruce, The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995).
• Bruce Fink, Lacan to the Letter: Reading Ecrits Closely, University of Minnesoty, 2004.
• Forrester, John, Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1985).
• Fryer, David Ross, The Intervention of the Other: Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas and Lacan (New York: Other Press, 2004)
• Jane Gallop, Reading Lacan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985.
• —————, The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982.
• Gherovici, Patricia, The Puerto Rican Syndrome (New York: Other Press, 2003)
• Harari, Roberto, Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: An Introduction (New York: Other Press, 2004)
• ------, Lacan's Seminar on "Anxiety": An Introduction (New York: Other Press, 2005)
• Lander, Romulo, Subjective Experience and the Logic of the Other (New York: Other Press, 2006)
• Leupin, Alexandre, Lacan Today (New York: Other Press, 2004)
• Mathelin, Catherine, Lacanian Psychotherpay with Children: The Broken Piano (New York: Other Press, 1999)
• McGowan, Todd and Kunkle, Sheila, Eds., Lacan and Contemporary Film (New York: Other Press, 2004)
• Jacques-Alain Miller, "Introduction to Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety I " (New York: Lacanian Ink 26, 2005.)
• —————, "Introduction to Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety II" (New York: Lacanian Ink 27, 2006.)
• —————, "Jacques Lacan's Later Teachings" (New York: Lacanian Ink 21, 2003.)
• —————, "The Paradigms of Jouissance" (New York, Lacanian Ink 17, 2000.)
• Moustafa, Safouan, Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis (New York: Other Press, 2004)
• Rabaté, Jean-Michel (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Lacan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• Sherry Turkle, Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution, 2nd edition, Guildford Press, New York, 1992
• ————— and Wollheim, Richard, ‘Lacan: an exchange’, New York Review of Books, 26 (9), 1979, p. 44.
• Soler, Colette, What Lacan Said About Women (New York: Other Press, 2006)
• Van Haute, Philippe, Against Adaptation: Lacan's "Subversion" of the Subject (New York: Other Press, 2002)
• ------ Confusion of Tongues: The Primacy of Sexuality in Freud, Ferenczi, and Laplanche (New York: Other Press, 2004)
• Wilden, Anthony, ‘Jacques Lacan: A partial bibliography’, Yale French Studies, 36/37, 1966, pp. 263–268.
• Slavoj Žižek, "Woman is One of the Names-of-the-Father, or how Not to misread Lacan´s formulas of sexuation", Lacan Dot Com, 2005.
• —————, ‘The object as a limit of discourse: approaches to the Lacanian real’, Prose Studies, 11 (3), 1988, pp. 94–120.
• —————, Interrogating the Real, ed. Rex Butler and Scott Stephens (London and New York: Continuum, 2005).
• —————, "Jacques Lacan as Reader of Hegel" (New York: Lacanian Ink 27, 2006.)