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== History ==
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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]].
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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.  
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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.
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| 1953-4 || [[The_Seminar%2C_Book_I._Freud%27s_Papers_on_Technique%2C_1953-1954|Freud's Papers on Technique]]. <BR>''Les écrits techniques de Freud''. || [[image:Sem1-s.jpg|right]]
 
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After ten years at the Hôpital Sainte-Anne, the seminar moved to the École Normale Supérieure in 1964, and to the Faculté de Droit in 1973These changes of venue were due to various reasons, not least of which was the need to accommodate the constantly growing audience as the seminar gradually became a focal point in the Parisian intellectual resurgence of the 1950s and 1960s.
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| 1954-5 || [[The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]].<BR> ''Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse''. || [[image:Sem2-s3.jpg|right]]
== Speech ==
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Given Lacan's insistence that speech is the only medium of psychoanalysis (E, 40), it is perhaps appropriate that the original means by which Lacan 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 all of Lacan's "writings" (…crits) were originally oral presentations, that in many ways the open-ended Seminar was his preferred environment' (Macey, 1995: 77).
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| 1955-6 || [[The psychoses| The Psychoses]].<BR>''Les psychoses''. || [[image:Sem3-s.jpg|right]]
As Lacan's seminars 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 seminars. 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. 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. 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. Miller's role in editing and publishing the seminar has led to some very heated 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 a written medium, and the editing required by this, means that these published 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 have been published in book form, while authorised extracts from others have appeared in the journal Ornicar? Unauthorised transcripts of the unpublished years of the seminar continue to circulate today, both in France and abroad.
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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 dictionary.
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| 1956-7 || [[Object Relations]].<BR> ''La relation d'objet et les structures freudiennes''. || [[image:Sem4-s.jpg|right]]
 
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== Definition ==
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| 1957-8 || [[The formations of the unconscious|The Formations of the Unconscious]].<BR> ''Les formations de l'inconscient''. || [[image:Sem5-s.jpg|right]]
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 seminars 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.
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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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| 1958-9 || [[Desire and its interpretation| Desire and its Interpretation]]. <BR> ''Le désir et son interprétation''. ||
 
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| 1959-60 || [[The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]].<BR> ''L'éthique de la psychanalyse''. || [[image:Sem7-s.jpg|right]]
 
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== References ==
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| 1960-1 || [[Le_transfert | Transference]].<BR> ''Le transfert (dans sa disparité subjective)''. || [[image:Sem8-s.jpg|right]]
 
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| 1961-2 || [[L%27identification | Identification]].<BR> ''L'identification''. ||
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| 1963 || [[Les Noms du père|The Names of the Father]].<BR> ''Les Noms du père''. ||
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| 1962-3 || [[L'angoisse|Anxiety]].<BR> ''L'angoisse''. || [[image:Sem10-s.jpg|right]]
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| 1964 || [[Seminar XI|The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]]. <BR> ''Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse''. || [[image:Sem11-s.jpg|right]]
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| 1964-5 || [[Crucial problems for psychoanalysis | Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis]]. <BR> ''Problèmes cruciaux pour la psychanalyse''. ||
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| 1965-6 || [[The object of psychoanalysis | The Object of Psychoanalysis]]. <BR>''L'objet de la psychanalyse''. ||
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| 1966-7 || [[The logic of fantasy | The Logic of Fantasy]]. <BR>''La logique du fantasme''.
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| 1967-8 || [[The Psychoanalytic Act]].<BR>''L'acte psychanalytique''.
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| 1968-9 || [[From one other to the Other | From One Other to the Other]]. <BR>''D'un Autre à l'autre''. || [[image:Sem16-s.jpg|right]]
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| 1969-70 || [[The reverse of psychoanalysis | The Reverse of Psychoanalysis]].<BR> ''L'envers de la psychanalyse''. || [[image:Sem17-s.jpg|right]]
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| 1971 || [[On a Discourse That Would Not Be Semblance]].<br>''D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant''.
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| 1971-2 || [[. . . Or Worse]].<BR>''...ou pire''.
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| 1972-3 || [[Encore]].<BR>''Encore'' || [[image:Sem20-s.jpg|right]]
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| 1973-4 || [[The Non-Duped Err/The Names of the Father]].<BR>''Les non-dupes errent''.
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| 1974-5 || [[RSI]].<BR>''RSI''.
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| 1975-6 || [[The Sinthome]].<BR>''Le sinthome''.
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| 1976-7 || [[One Knew That It Was a Mistaken Moon on the Wings of Love]].<BR>''L'insu que sait de l'une-bévue s'aile à mourre''.
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| 1977-8 || [[The Moment of Concluding]].<BR>''Le moment de conclure''.
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| 1978-9 || [[Topology and Time]].<BR>''La topologie et le temps''.
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| 1980 || [[Dissolution]].<BR>''Dissolution''.
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Revision as of 12:02, 18 May 2006

The Seminar
Le Séminaire

Book
Livre
Year
Année
Title
Titre
I 1953-4 Freud's Papers on Technique.
Les écrits techniques de Freud.
II 1954-5 The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis.
Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse.
III 1955-6 The Psychoses.
Les psychoses.
IV 1956-7 Object Relations.
La relation d'objet et les structures freudiennes.
V 1957-8 The Formations of the Unconscious.
Les formations de l'inconscient.
VI 1958-9 Desire and its Interpretation.
Le désir et son interprétation.
VII 1959-60 The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.
L'éthique de la psychanalyse.
VIII 1960-1 Transference.
Le transfert (dans sa disparité subjective).
IX 1961-2 Identification.
L'identification.
1963 The Names of the Father.
Les Noms du père.
X 1962-3 Anxiety.
L'angoisse.
XI 1964 The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.
Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse.
XII 1964-5 Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis.
Problèmes cruciaux pour la psychanalyse.
XIII 1965-6 The Object of Psychoanalysis.
L'objet de la psychanalyse.
XIV 1966-7 The Logic of Fantasy.
La logique du fantasme.
XV 1967-8 The Psychoanalytic Act.
L'acte psychanalytique.
XVI 1968-9 From One Other to the Other.
D'un Autre à l'autre.
XVII 1969-70 The Reverse of Psychoanalysis.
L'envers de la psychanalyse.
XVIII 1971 On a Discourse That Would Not Be Semblance.
D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant.
XIX 1971-2 . . . Or Worse.
...ou pire.
XX 1972-3 Encore.
Encore
XXI 1973-4 The Non-Duped Err/The Names of the Father.
Les non-dupes errent.
XXII 1974-5 RSI.
RSI.
XXIII 1975-6 The Sinthome.
Le sinthome.
XXIV 1976-7 One Knew That It Was a Mistaken Moon on the Wings of Love.
L'insu que sait de l'une-bévue s'aile à mourre.
XXV 1977-8 The Moment of Concluding.
Le moment de conclure.
XXVI 1978-9 Topology and Time.
La topologie et le temps.
XVII 1980 Dissolution.
Dissolution.