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Given [[Lacan]]'s insistence that [[speech]] is the only medium of [[psychoanalysis]],<ref>{{E}} p.40</ref> it is perhaps appropriate that the original means by which [[Lacan]] developed and expounded his ideas should have been the spoken [[word]].
As [[Lacan]]'s [[[[seminar]]]]s became increasingly popular, demand grew for written transcripts of the [[seminar]].
However, apart from a few small articles that he wrote on the basis of some lectures delivered in the course of the [[seminar]], [[Lacan]] never published any account of his own [[[[seminar]]]]s.
In 1956-9 [[Lacan]] authorised Jean-Bertrand Pontalis to publish a few summaries of sections of the [[seminar]] during those years, but this as not enough to satisfy the growing demand for written accounts of [[Lacan]]'s teaching.
Hence unauthorised transcripts of [[Lacan]]'s [[seminar]] began increasingly to be circulated among his followers in an almost clandestine way.
Even during [[Lacan]]'s lifetime, the [[seminar ]] circulated in the form of photocopies of diverse and unreliable written versions of the spoken text.
Beginning in 1973, [[Lacan ]] entrusted the transcription of the [[seminar ]] to [[Jacques-Alain Miller]].
In 1973, [[Lacan]] allowed his son-in-law, [[Jacques-Alain Miller]], to publish an edited transcript of the lectures given in 1964, the eleventh year of the [[seminar]].
Unauthorised transcripts of the unpublished years of the [[seminar]] continue to circulate today, both in [[France]] and abroad.
[[Name-of-the-Father ]] was to be the next [[seminar]], but only a single session was given, on November 25, 1963, at [[Sainte-Anne Hospital. Lacan stopped giving this seminar when he learned that the International Psychoanalytical Association had refused to reinstate him as a training analyst]].
Unlike the ''[[Écrits]]'', the [[seminar]]s are not difficult to read, but it can still be hard to follow the train of associations and links that [[Lacan]] makes.
Usually, though, in a performative flourish [[Lacan]] will pull the whole presentation together in the final moments and provide a startlingly clear and understandable formulation of what he has been talking about.
The individual [[seminar]]s that make up [[Lacan]]'s [[seminar]] are as follows:
Because [[Lacan]] was old and ill, seminar 27 was not delivered publicly but only published.
It dealt with the dissolution of his school,École freudienne de Paris (Freudian School of Paris).
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