"[[seminar]] " ([[FrenchFr]]: . ''[[séminaire]]) ==Summary==In contrast with [[Freud]], whose work was primarily written, [[Jacques Lacan]]'s work was for the most part an oral improvisation from notes delivered as an ongoing [[seminar]] that he held in Paris from 1953 to 1980. From 1953 to 1963, [[Lacan]]'s [[seminar]] was held at the [[Sainte-Anne Hospital]] in Paris. From 1964 to 1969, starting with seminar 11, it was held at the [[École Normale Supérieure]] on rue d'Ulm. A nd finally, from 1969 to 1980, starting with seminar 17, it was held before a much larger audience in the amphitheater of the law school at the Panthéon.
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]].
==Hôpital Sainte-Anne==
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 his [[death]] in 1981, [[Lacan]] took a different theme each academic year and delivered a series of lectures on it.
These twenty-seven annual series of lectures are usually referred to collectively as '"the [[seminar]]'", in the singular.
==École Normale Supérieure==
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]].
Indeed, as one commentator has remarked: "it must be recalled that virtually all of Lacan's 'writings' were originally oral presentations, that is many ways the open-ended Seminar was his preferred environment."
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As [[Lacan]]'s [[seminar]]s became increasingly popular, demand grew for written transcripts 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Unauthorised transcripts of the unpublished years of the [[seminar]] continue to circulate today, both in [[France]] and abroad.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]].
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).
== Definition ==
A [[seminar]] is a form of academic teaching, at a university or offered by a commercial or professional organization, in small groups where students are requested to actively participate during meetings.
This often has to be done by presenting a paper in class and also in written form. Normally, participants must not be beginners.
The idea behind [[[[seminar]]]]s is to confront students with the methodology of their chosen subject and also to familiarise them with practical problems that might crop up during their research work. Often a [[seminar]] will be open to discussion, where questions can be raised and debates conducted.
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.
==See Also==
* ''[[École freudienne de Paris]]'' ([[École freudienne de Paris|Freudian School of Paris]])
* [[France]]
* [[Jacques-Marie Émile Lacan]]
* [[Maurice Merleau-Ponty]]
* ''[[Ornicar?]]''
* [[Sainte-Anne Hospital]]
==References==
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# École Lacanienne de psychanalyse. (1991). Le transfert dans tous ses errata and Pour une transcription critique des séminaires de Jacques Lacan. Paris: E.P.E.L.
# Miller, Jacques-Alain. (1985). Entretien sur le séminaire avec François Ansermet. Paris: Navarin.
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