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| − | seminar (sÈminaire) In 1951, Lacan began to give private lectures in
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| − | Sylvia Bataille's apartment at 3 rue de Lille. The lectures were attended by a
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| − | small group of trainee psychoanalysts, and were based on readings of some of
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| − | Freud's case histories: Dora, the Rat Man and the Wolf Man. In 1953, the
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| − | venue of these lectures moved to the HÙpital Sainte-Anne, where a larger
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| − | audience could be accommodated. Although Lacan sometimes refers to the
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| − | private lectures of 1951-2 and 1952-3 as the first two years of his 'seminar',
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| − | the term is now usually reserved for the public lectures which began in 1953.
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| − | From that point on until his death in 1981, Lacan took a different theme each
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| − | academic year and delivered a series of lectures on it. These twenty-seven
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| − | annual series of lectures are usually referred to collectively as 'the seminar', in
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| − | the singular.
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| − | After ten years at the HÙpital Sainte-Anne, the seminar moved to the …cole
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| − | Normale SupÈrieure in 1964, and to the FacultÈ de Droit in 1973. These
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| − | changes of venue were due to various reasons, not least of which was the
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| − | need to accommodate the constantly growing audience as the seminar
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| − | gradually became a focal point in the Parisian intellectual resurgence of
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| − | the 1950s and 1960s.
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| − | Given Lacan's insistence that speech is the only medium of psychoanalysis
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| − | (E, 40), it is perhaps appropriate that the original means by which Lacan
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| − | developed and expounded his ideas should have been the spoken word.
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| − | Indeed, as one commentator has remarked; 'It must be recalled that virtually
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| − | all of Lacan's "writings" (…crits) were originally oral presentations, that in
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| − | many ways the open-ended Seminar was his preferred environment' (Macey,
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| − | 1995: 77).
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| − | As Lacan's seminars became increasingly popular, demand grew for
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| − | written transcripts of the seminar. However, apart from a few small articles
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| − | that he wrote on the basis of some lectures delivered in the course of the
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| − | seminar, Lacan never published any account of his own seminars. In 1956-9
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| − | Lacan authorised Jean-Bertrand Pontalis to publish a few summaries of
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| − | sections of the seminar during those years, but this was not enough to
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| − | satisfy the growing demand for written accounts of Lacan's teaching. Hence
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| − | unauthorised transcripts of Lacan's seminar began increasingly to be circu-
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| − | lated among his followers in an almost clandestine way. In 1973, Lacan
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| − | allowed his son-in-law, Jacques-Alain Miller, to publish an edited transcript
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| − | of the lectures given in 1964, the eleventh year of the seminar. Since then,
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| − | Miller has continued to bring out edited versions of other years of the
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| − | seminar, although the number published is still fewer than half. Miller's
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| − | role in editing and publishing the seminar has led to some very heated
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| − | arguments, with opponents claiming he has distorted Lacan's original.
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| − | However, as Miller himself has pointed out, the transition from an oral to
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| − | a written medium, and the editing required by this, means that these
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| − | published versions of the seminar could never be simple transcripts of the
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| − | lectures given by Lacan (see Miller, 1985). So far only nine of the yearly
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| − | seminars have been published in book form, while authorised extracts from
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| − | others have appeared in the journal Ornicar? Unauthorised transcripts of the
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| − | unpublished years of the seminar continue to circulate today, both in France
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| − | and abroad.
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| − | The titles of each year (or each 'book') of the seminar, are listed on p. 177.
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| − | The original French titles and publication details are listed in the bibliography
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| − | at the end of this dictionary.
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| − | I 1953-4 Freud's papers on techniqw.
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| − | II 1954-5 The ego in Freud's theory and in the technique of
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| − | psychoanalysis.
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| − | III 1955-6 The psychoses.
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| − | IV 1956-7 Object relations.
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| − | V 1957-8 The formations of the unconscious.
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| − | VI 1958-9 Desire and its interpretation.
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| − | VII 1959-60 The ethics of psychoanalysis.
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| − | VIII 1960-1 Transference.
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| − | IX 1961-2 Identification.
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| − | X 1962-3 [[Anxiety]].
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| − | XI 1964 The four fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis.
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| − | XII 1964-5 Crucial problems for psychoanalysis.
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| − | XIII 1965-6 The object of psychoanalysis.
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| − | XIV 1966-7 The logic of fantasy.
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| − | XV 1967-8 The psychoanalytic act.
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| − | XVI 1968-9 From one other to the Other.
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| − | XVII 1969-70 The reverse of psychoanalysis.
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| − | XVIII 1970-1 On a discourse that would not be semblance.
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| − | XIX 1971-2 . . . Or worse.
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| − | XX 1972-3 Encore.
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| − | XXI 1973-4 The non-duped err/The names of the father.
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| − | XXII 1974-5 RSI.
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| − | XXIII 1975-6 The sinthome.
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| − | XXIV 1976-7 One knew that it was a mistaken moon on the wings of
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| − | love.
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| − | XXV 1977-8 The moment of concluding.
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| − | XXVI 1978-9 Topology and time.
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| − | XVII 1980 Dissolution.
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| − | == References ==
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| − | [[Category:Lacan]]
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| − | [[Category:Terms]]
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| − | [[Category:Concepts]]
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| − | [[Category:Psychoanalysis]] | |
