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I would suggest that a better way to read Lacan is through the seminars and the accompanying Readings published by SUNY Press (see 'Works on Jacques Lacan' below).
 
The seminar is unquestionably an unusual reading experience.
 
Each seminar contains approximately 25 presentations from the fortnightly seminar (although they get shorter as Lacan reduces his theory to a set of mathematical formulas in his final years).
 
While each presentation is supposed to pick up and follow on from the week before, the connections can often be tenuous.
 
Unlike the Écrits, the seminars 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.
 
So, however bewildering the seminar might seem, it is always worth following it through.
 
From the currently published seminars a good place to start would be Seminars II, VII and XI.
 
 
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seminar (séminaire)
== History ==
In 1951, [[Lacan]] began to give private lectures in [[Sylvia Bataille]]'s apartment at 3 rue de Lille. The lectures were attended by a small group of trainee psychoanalysts, and were based on readings of some of [[Freud]]'s [[case histories]]: [[Dora]], the [[Rat Man]] and the [[Wolf Man]].
In 1953, the venue of these lectures moved to the [[Hôpital Sainte-Anne]], here a larger audience could be accommodated. Although Lacan sometimes refers to the private lectures of 1951-2 and 1952-3 as the first two years of his 'seminar', the term is now usually reserved for the public lectures which began in 1953.
From that point on until 1953 to 1980, the Séminaire of the french psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is the laboratory, the work-in-progress for his death in 1981« Return to Freud » project. A return to the real meaning of Freud's discovery, including the recent contributions made by linguistics (Saussure, Jakobson) and structural anthropology (Lévi-Strauss), and then through formal logic and topology. Lacan took 's Séminaire was a different theme each academic singular place and moment, almost weekly, every year from november to june. Without any connection with university, it was public and delivered open to everyone. In the beginning, Lacan reads through again and comments on the works of Freud for a series limited audience made of lectures on itpsychiatrists and psychoanalysts in training. These twentyLater, as Lacan's thought goes more and more original and as his exuberant personnality - His Style -seven annual series makes him known beyond the strictly psychoanalytical circles, the Séminaire becomes a kind of lectures are usually referred place in vogue where you sometimes wanted to collectively as be seen. You could see lacanian analysts, some patients of these analysts, students, artists or intellectuals (for example, Philippe Sollers is known for frequenting the Séminaire in the 70's). At this time, Lacan often complains about the seminar'growing size of his audience. Initially started at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne (Paris, 1953-1963), the Séminaire continues at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure (Paris, 1964-1969) with the help of Louis Althusser and Claude Lévi-Strauss when Lacan is banned from the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1963 (his Séminaire becomes unwelcome at Sainte-Anne). Finally, the last Séminaires take place in the singularFaculté de Droit Panthéon (Paris, 1969-1980).
After ten years at Every year, during the Hôpital Sainte-Annefirst session, Lacan announces a title, a theme. The early Séminaires are mostly centered on commenting the main classical psychoanalysis concepts (the seminar moved to Ego, the École Normale Supérieure in 1964transference, and to the Faculté de Droit in 1973indentification, etc.). These changes of venue were due to various reasonsLater, not least of which was the need to accommodate the constantly growing audience themes and titles became more strictly lacanian (sometimes based on homophonies and puns) as the seminar gradually became a focal point in the Parisian intellectual resurgence of the 1950s concepts and their models (logic or topologic) become really specific and 1960spersonal.
== Speech ==Given Lacan's insistence that speech is the only medium of psychoanalysis (E, 40), it is perhaps appropriate that the original means Very few sessions were previously written up by which Lacan developed and expounded his ideas should have been the spoken word.Indeed, as one commentator has remarked; 'It must be recalled that virtually all of Lacan's "writings" (…crits) were originally oral presentations, that in many ways so a stenographer had to transcribe the open-ended Seminar was his preferred environment' whole sessions (Macey, 1995http: 77//www.ecole-lacanienne.net/bibliotheque.php?id=13).As Lacan's seminars became increasingly popularHowever, demand grew for written transcripts of at the seminar. Howeverpresent time, apart from a few small articles that he wrote on the basis only 12 Séminaires out of some lectures delivered in the course of the seminar, Lacan never 27 have been published any account . The composition of his own seminars. In 1956-9 Lacan authorised Jean-Bertrand Pontalis to publish a few summaries of sections of text from the stenographies (or even from the seminar during those years, but this as not enough audio material) has always seemed to satisfy come up against the growing demand for written accounts fundamentally oral nature of Lacan's teaching. Hence unauthorised transcripts of Lacan's seminar began increasingly to be circulated among and his followers in an almost clandestine waytotally improvising style. In 1973, Lacan allowed his son-in-law, Jacques-Alain Miller, to publish an edited transcript The first official publications of the lectures given Séminaire started in 1964, the eleventh year of the seminar. Since then, Miller has continued to bring out edited versions of other years of the seminar, although the number published is still fewer than half. Millerearly 70's role , but in editing and publishing the seminar has led to some very heated arguments, with opponents claiming he has distorted Lacan's original.However, as Miller himself has pointed out, the transition from an oral to such a written medium, and the editing required by this, means slowly rate that these published many unofficial versions of the seminar could never be simple transcripts of the lectures given by Lacan (see Miller, 1985). So far only nine of the yearly seminars unpublished Séminaires have been published in book form, while authorised extracts from others have appeared in the journal Ornicar? Unauthorised transcripts of immediatly spread into the unpublished years of the seminar continue to circulate today, both in France and abroad.The titles of each year (or each 'book') of the seminar, are listed on p. 177. The original French titles and publication details are listed in the bibliography at the end of this dictionarypsychoanalysts circles.
The first known private audio recordings of the Séminaire seems to date from 1969. Curiously, despite Lacan's famous verve or grandiloquence and his matchless improvising oral style, none of the 500 sessions has been cleanly and officially recorded (neither audio nor video).
== Definition ==
Another form of academic teaching is lecturing, a form which involves larger student groups with less active participation. In some European universities a seminar can be a large lecture course, especially when conducted by a renowned thinker, regardless of the size of the audience or its participation in discussion.
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[[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]].
 
Each [[seminar]] contains approximately 25 presentations from the weekly seminar]].
 
While each presentation is supposed to pick up and follow on from the week before, the connections can often be tenuous.
 
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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