seminar (séminaire) <blockquote style="background: white; border: 0px solid black; padding: 1em; text-align:center; line-height:2.0em;">{| style="width:100%; height:200px; text-align:center; line-height:2.0em;"|+The Seminar <BR>''Le Séminaire''<BR><BR>|-! Book <BR>''Livre'' !! Year<BR>''Année'' !! Title<BR>''Titre'' !! |-== History ==! IIn 1951, | 1953-4 || [[LacanThe_Seminar%2C_Book_I._Freud%27s_Papers_on_Technique%2C_1953-1954|Freud's Papers on Technique]] began to give private lectures in . <BR>''Les écrits techniques de Freud''. || [[Sylvia Batailleimage:Sem1-s.jpg|right]]|-! II| 1954-5 || [[The Ego in Freud's apartment at 3 rue Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis]].<BR> ''Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de Lillela psychanalyse''. The lectures were attended by a small group of trainee psychoanalysts, and were based on readings of some of || [[Freudimage:Sem2-s3.jpg|right]]'s |-! III| 1955-6 || [[case historiesThe psychoses| The Psychoses]]: .<BR>''Les psychoses''. || [[Doraimage:Sem3-s.jpg|right]], the |-! IV| 1956-7 || [[Rat ManObject Relations]] and the .<BR> ''La relation d'objet et les structures freudiennes''. || [[Wolf Manimage:Sem4-s.jpg|right]]. |-! VIn 1953, | 1957-8 || [[The formations of the venue unconscious|The Formations of these lectures moved to the Unconscious]].<BR> ''Les formations de l'inconscient''. || [[Hôpital Sainteimage:Sem5-Annes.jpg|right]], here a larger audience could be accommodated|-! VI| 1958-9 || [[Desire and its interpretation| Desire and its Interpretation]]. <BR> ''Le désir et son interprétation''. Although Lacan sometimes refers to the private lectures of 1951|| |-2 and 1952! VII| 1959-3 as the first two years 60 || [[The Ethics of his Psychoanalysis]].<BR> 'seminar', the term is now usually reserved for the public lectures which began in 1953L'éthique de la psychanalyse''. || [[image:Sem7-s. jpg|right]]|-! VIIIFrom that point on until his death in 1981, Lacan took a different theme each academic year and delivered a series of lectures on it| 1960-1 || [[Le_transfert | Transference]]. These twenty-seven annual series of lectures are usually referred to collectively as <BR> ''Le transfert (dans sa disparité subjective)'the seminar', in the singular.|| [[image:Sem8-s.jpg|right]]|-! IXAfter ten years at the Hôpital Sainte| 1961-Anne, the seminar moved to the École Normale Supérieure in 1964, and to the Faculté de Droit in 19732 || [[L%27identification | Identification]].<BR> ''L'identification''. || |-! These changes | 1963 || [[Les Noms du père|The Names 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 1960sFather]].<BR> ''Les Noms du père''.|| |-== Speech ==! X Given Lacan| 1962-3 || [[L'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 wordangoisse|Anxiety]].Indeed, as one commentator has remarked; <BR> ''L'angoisse'It must be recalled that virtually all of Lacan'. || [[image:Sem10-s "writings" (…crits) were originally oral presentations, that in many ways the open.jpg|right]]|-ended ! XI| 1964 || [[Seminar was his preferred environmentXI|The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]]. <BR> ' (Macey, 1995'Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse''. || [[image: 77)Sem11-s.jpg|right]]|-! XIIAs Lacan| 1964-5 || [[Crucial problems for psychoanalysis | Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis]]. <BR> ''Problèmes cruciaux pour la psychanalyse''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 || |-! XIII | 1965-6 || [[The object of some lectures delivered in the course psychoanalysis | The Object of the seminar, Lacan never published any account of his own seminarsPsychoanalysis]]. <BR>''L'objet de la psychanalyse''. In 1956|| |-9 Lacan authorised Jean! XIV| 1966-Bertrand Pontalis to publish a few summaries 7 || [[The logic of sections fantasy | The Logic of the seminar during those years, but this as not enough to satisfy the growing demand for written accounts of LacanFantasy]]. <BR>''La logique du fantasme''s teaching. Hence unauthorised transcripts of Lacan|-! XV| 1967-8 || [[The Psychoanalytic Act]].<BR>''L'acte psychanalytique''s seminar began increasingly to be circulated among his followers in an almost clandestine way. In 1973, Lacan allowed his son|-in! XVI| 1968-law, Jacques-Alain Miller, 9 || [[From one other to publish an edited transcript of the lectures given in 1964, the eleventh year of the seminar. Since then, Miller has continued Other | From One Other to bring out edited versions of other years of the seminar, although the number published is still fewer than halfOther]]. Miller<BR>''D'un Autre à l'autre's role in editing and publishing the seminar has led to some very heated arguments, with opponents claiming he has distorted Lacan'. || [[image:Sem16-s original.jpg|right]]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 |-! XVII| 1969-70 || [[The reverse of the seminar could never be simple transcripts psychoanalysis | The Reverse of the lectures given by Lacan (see Miller, 1985)Psychoanalysis]].<BR> ''L'envers de la psychanalyse''. 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|| [[image:Sem17-s.jpg|right]]|-The titles of each year (or each ! XVIII | 1971 || [[On a Discourse That Would Not Be Semblance]].<br>''D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant'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.|-! XIX== 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| 1971-2 || [[. . . Or Worse]]. This often has to be done by presenting a paper in class and also in written form<BR>''. 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 conductedou pire''.|-! XXAnother form of academic teaching is lecturing, a form which involves larger student groups with less active participation| 1972-3 || [[Encore]].<BR>''Encore'' || [[image:Sem20-s. In some European universities a seminar can be a large lecture course, especially when conducted by a renowned thinker, regardless jpg|right]]|-! XXI | 1973-4 || [[The Non-Duped Err/The Names of the size of the audience or its participation in discussionFather]].<BR>''Les non-dupes errent''.|-!XXII | 1974-5 || [[RSI]].<BR>''RSI''.|-== References ==!XXIII | 1975-6 || [[The Sinthome]].<references/BR>''Le sinthome''.|-!XXIV | 1976-7 || [[Category:LacanOne 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''.|-!XXV| 1977-8 || [[Category:TermsThe Moment of Concluding]].<BR>''Le moment de conclure''.|-!XXVI | 1978-9 || [[Category:ConceptsTopology and Time]].<BR>''La topologie et le temps''.|-!XVII | 1980 || [[Category:PsychoanalysisDissolution]].<BR>''Dissolution''.|}</blockquote>
