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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. And 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.
 [[seminar]] ([[French]]: ''[[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.  ==Early Lectures==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]].   ==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== 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 1973.  These 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. == Speech == 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]].  In an editor's note to ''[[The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis]]'', the first of his publications of [[Lacan]]'s [[seminars]], [[Miller wrote, ]] writes:  <blockquote>"My intention here was to be as unobtrusive as possible and to obtain from Jacques Lacan's spoken work an authentic version that would stand, in the future, for the original, which does not exist." (<ref>{{S11}} p. xi)</ref></blockquote> 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. 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]].<ref>Miller, 1985</ref> So far only nine of the yearly [[[[seminar]]]]s 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. 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 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.
The individual seminars that make up Lacan's seminar are as follows:
# Seminar 1 (1953-1954): Freud 's Papers on Technique. (John ForresterBecause Lacan was old and ill, Transseminar 27 was not delivered publicly but only published.) New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.# Seminar 2 (1954-1955): The Ego in Freud's Theory and in It dealt with the Technique dissolution of Psychoanalysis. (Sylvana Tomasellihis school, Trans.) New York: W. W. Norton, 1988.# Seminar 3 (1955-1956): The Psychoses. (Russell Grigg, Trans.) New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.# Seminar 4 (1956-1957): La relation d'objet (Object relations). Paris: Seuil, 1994.# Seminar 5 (1957-1958): Les formations École freudienne de l'inconscient (Formations of the unconscious). Paris: Seuil, 1998.# Seminar 6 (1958-1959): Le désir et son interprétation (Desire and its interpretation). Unpublished.# Seminar 7 (1959-1960): The Ethics Freudian School of Psychoanalysis. (Dennis Porter, Trans.) New York: W. W. Norton, 1992.# Seminar 8 (1960-1961): Transfert (Transference). 2nd ed. Paris: Seuil, 2001.# Seminar 9 (1961-1962): L'identification (Identification). Unpublished.# Seminar 10 (1962-1963): L'angoisse (Anxiety). Paris: Seuil, 2004.
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.
# Seminar 11 (1964): The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. (Alan Sheridan, Trans.) New York, W. W. Norton, 1978.== Definition ==# Seminar 12 (1964-1965): Problèmes cruciaux pour la psychanalyse (Crucial problems for psychoanalysis). Unpublished.# Seminar 13 (1965-1966): L'objet de la psychanalyse (The object of psychoanalysis). Unpublished.# Seminar 14 (1966-1967): La logique du fantasme (The logic of fantasy). Unpublished.# Seminar 15 (1967-1968): L'acte psychanalytique (The psychoanalytic act). Unpublished.# Seminar 16 (1968-1969): D'un Autreà l'autre (From one Other to the other). Unpublished.# Seminar 17 (1969-1970): L'envers de la psychanalyse (The other side A [[seminar]] is a form of psychoanalysis). Paris: Seuilacademic teaching, 1991.# Seminar 18 (1970-1971): D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant (On at a discourse that might not be university or offered by a semblance). Unpublished.# Seminar 19 (1971-1972): . . . ou pire (. . . commercial or worse). Unpublished.# Seminar 20 (1972-1973): On Feminine Sexuality: The Limits of Love and Knowledge, Encore. Translated by Bruce Fink. New York: Nortonprofessional organization, 1998.# Seminar 21 (1973-1974): Les non-dupes errent (Those who in small groups where students are not duped err). Unpublished.# Seminar 22 (1974-1975): R.S.I. Ornicar? 2-5.# Seminar 23 (1975-1976): Le sinthome (The sinthome [an archaic spelling of the word "symptom"]). Ornicar? 6-11.# Seminar 24 (1976-1977): L'insu que sait de l'une bévue s'aileà mourre. Ornicar? 12-18requested to actively participate during meetings.
The punning French title of this seminar is based on This often has to be done by presenting a fanciful French translation of the German word for the unconscious, "Unbewusste," as "une-bévue," which means a blunder or a mistake. As paper in class and also in written, the title might be translated as "The unknown that knows about the one-blunder chances loveform." But as spoken, with written puns ignoredNormally, the French title might participants must not be rendered most simply as "L'insuccès de l'une-bévue, c'est l'amour," which means "Love is the failure of the one-blunderbeginners."
# Seminar 25 (1977-1978): Le moment de conclure (Time The idea behind [[[[seminar]]]]s is to conclude)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. Unpublished.# Seminar 26 (1978-1979): La topologie et le temps (Topology Often a [[seminar]] will be open to discussion, where questions can be raised and time). Unpublished.# Seminar 27 (1980): Dissolution. Ornicar? 20-23debates conducted.
Because Lacan was old and illAnother form of academic teaching is lecturing, seminar 27 was not delivered publicly but only published. It dealt a form which involves larger student groups with the dissolution of his school,École freudienne de Paris (Freudian School of Paris)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==
* [[Jean Delay]]
* ''[[École freudienne de Paris]]'' ([[École freudienne de Paris|Freudian School of Paris]])
* [[France]]
# 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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