Works by Jacques Lacan

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Lacan only published one book in his lifetime - Écrits (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1966), and oversaw the editing of the first of his seminars - Le Séminaire de Jacques Lacan, Livre XI: Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1973). The English translation, Écrits: A Selection by Alan Sheridan (London: Tavistock Publications, 1977) contains key texts such as "The Mirror Stage", "The Rome Discourse," "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious," "The Meaning of the Phallus" and "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire," but it still only consists of one-third of the French edition.

Lacan was 65 years old when he published Écrits and it is not an introductory text but the summation of a lifetime's teaching and clinical practice. Each paper contains a multiplicity of allusions and references that need to be unpacked, if we are to begin understanding Lacan's ideas.

"The Mirror Stage," for example, is only seven pages long, while "The Signification of the Phallus" is just nine, but each of these papers has generated volumes of explication, critique and applications.


==Bibliography Jacques Lacan in English

1933 Articles from Le Minotaure: The Problem of Style and the Psychiatric Conception of Paranoiac Forms of Experience and Motives of Paranoiac Crime: The Crime of the Papin Sisters, transl. by Jon Anderson in Critical Texts, vol.5, 3, 1988.

1938 The Family Complexes, transl. by Carolyn Asp in Critical Texts, vol.5, issue 3, 1988. Also transl. by Andrea Kahn in Semiotext 10, vol. 4, 1, 1981. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001.

1945 Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism from Écrits, transl. by B. Fink and M. Silver in Ellie Ragland-Sullivan (ed.), Newsletter of the Freudian Field, vol.2, 1988.

1947 British Psychiatry and the War, transl. by Philip Dravers and Veronique Voruz in Psychoanalytical Notebooks of the London Circle, Spring 2000. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001.

1948 Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977.

1949 The Mirror-Stage as Formative of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977. The Mirror Stage, Source of the I-Function, as shown by Psychoanalytic Experience, transl. in International Journal of Psychoanalysis 30.

1950 A Theoretical Introduction to the Function of Psychoanalysis in Criminology, May 29, 1950 from Écrits, transl. by Mark Bracher, Russell Grigg, and Robert Samuels in Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, vol. 1, 2, 1997.

1951 Intervention of Transference from Écrits, transl. by J. Rose in J. Mitchell and J. Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1982. Some Reflections on the Ego. in International Journal of Psychoanalysis 34, pp. 11-17.

1953 The Neurotic's Individual Myth, transl. by Martha Noel Evans in Psychoanalytic Quarterly, vol. 48, 3, 1979, pp. 386-425. The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977. and also: transl. as The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis by Anthony Wilden in The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1968. Letter to Rudolph Löwenstein, July 14, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in 'Dossier on the International Debate' in October 40, Spring 1987. Letter to Heinz Hartmann, July 21, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in 'Dossier on the International Debate' in October 40, Spring 1987.

1954 The Seminar, Book I. Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by J. Forrester, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1988.

1955 The Seminar, Book II. The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Sylvana Tomaselli, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1988. and also: The Seminar, Book II, pp. 350-352, transl. by Stuart Schneiderman in M. Blonsky (ed.), On Signs, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1985. The Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter' from Écrits, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in Yale French Studies 48, 1973, pp. 39-72. The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977.

1956 The Seminar, Book III. The Psychoses, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Russell Grigg, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1993. Fetishism: The Symbolic, The Real and The Imaginary (with W. Granoff), transl. in S. Lorand and M. Balint (eds.), Perversions: Psychodynamics and Therapy, Random House, New York, 1956. The Seminar, Book III. The Psychoses, Part II, translated by Stuart Schneiderman in Lacan Study Notes, vol.1, 1, New York, Nov-Dec 1982.

1957 The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977. and also as: The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious, transl. by Jan Miel in Jacques Ehrmann (ed.), Yale French Studies 36/37, 1966. On a Question Preliminary to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977.

1958 The Signification of the Phallus, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977. and also as: The Meaning of the Phallus, transl. by J. Rose in J. Mitchell and J. Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1982. The Directions of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977.

1959 Desire and Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet from Seminar VI — Desire and Its Interpretation, transl. by J. Hulbert in Yale French Studies 55/56, 1977, pp.11-52.

1960 The Seminar, Book VII. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-1960, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Dennis Porter, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1992. Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality from Écrits, transl. by J. Rose, in J. Mitchell and J. Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1982. Positions of the Unconscious from Écrits, transl. by Bruce Fink in R. Feldstein, B. Fink, M. Jaanus (eds.), Reading Seminar I & II, SUNY Press, Albany, 1995. Letter to D.W. Winicott, Aug. 5, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in 'Dossier on the International Debate' in October 40, Spring 1987. The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious, transl. by Alan Sheridan in Écrits: A Selection, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977.

1961 Merleau-Ponty: In Memoriam, 2001, transl. by Wilfried ver Eecke and Dirk de Schutter in Keith Hoeller (ed.), Merleau-Ponty & Psychology, Humanities Press, NJ, 1993. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001.

1962 Kant with Sade from Écrits, transl. by J.B. Swenson Jr. in October 51, Winter 1989.

1963 The Seminar on 'Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father', transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in October 40, Spring 1987.

1964 Founding Act, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in OCTOBER 40, Spring 1987. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001. The Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Alan Sheridan, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1977. Its preface appears in Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001. On Freud's Trieb & the Psychoanalytic Desire from Écrits, transl. by Bruce Fink in R. Feldstein, B. Fink, M. Jaanus (eds.), Reading Seminar XI, SUNY Press, Albany, 1996.

1965 Science and Truth from Écrits, transl. by Bruce Fink in Ellie Ragland-Sullivan (ed.), Newsletter of the Freudian Field, vol. 3, 1989. Homage to Marguerite Duras, on Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein, Paris: Seuil, 2001, transl. by Peter Connor in Duras by Duras, City Lights Books, San Francisco, CA, 1987. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001.

1966 Écrits: A Selection, transl. by Alan Sheridan, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1977, and revised version, 2002, transl. by Bruce Fink. 1. The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I 2. Aggressivity in psychoanalysis 3. The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis 4. The Freudian thing 5. The agency of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud 6. On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis 7. The direction of the treatment and the principles of its power 8. The signification of the phallus 9. The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious Response to Students of Philosophy Concerning the Object of Psychoanalysis, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in October 40, Spring 1987. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001. Of Structure as an Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever, in R. Macksey and E. Donato (eds.), The Structuralist Controversy, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1970.

1967 Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School, transl. by Russell Grigg in Analysis No.6, Centre for Psychoanalytic Research, Melbourne, 1995. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001.

1969 Impromptu at Vincennes, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in October 40, Spring 1987. Note on the Child, transl. by Russell Grigg in Analysis No.2, Centre for Psychoanalytic Research, Melbourne, 1990. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001. Preface, transl. by David Macey in Anika Lemaire's Jacques Lacan, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001. Appendix; General Purport of a Conversation with Jacques Lacan in December 1969, transl. by David Macey in Anika Lemaire's Jacques Lacan, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977.

1963-69 Eight Letters to Luis Althusser, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in 'Correspondence with Luis Althusser' in Olivier Corpet and François Matheron (eds.), Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan, Columbia University, New York, 1996.

1970 Radiophonie, in Scilicet 2/3, pp.55-58, transl. by Stuart Schneiderman in M. Blonsky (ed.), On Signs, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1985. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001.

1972 3 March 1972, The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst, transl. by Denise Green in Semiotext 10, vol. 4, 1, 1981. The Seminar on The Purloined Letter, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in "French Freud", Yale French Studies 48.

1973 The Seminar XX, Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, transl. by Bruce Fink, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1998. A Love Letter from Encore — Seminar XX, transl. by J. Rose in J. Mitchell and J. Rose (eds.), in Feminine Sexuality, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1982. God and the Jouissance of the Woman from Encore — Seminar XX, transl. by J. Rose in J. Mitchell and J. Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1982. Television, transl. by D. Hollier, R. Krauss and A. Michelson, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1990. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001. Note to the Italian Group, transl. by Russell Grigg in Analysis No.7, Centre for Psychoanalytic Research, Melbourne, 1997. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001.

1974 Spring Awakening, transl. by Russell Grigg in Analysis No.6, Centre for Psychoanalytic Research, Melbourne, 1995. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001.

1975 The Seminar XXII of 21 January 1975 — RSI, transl. by J. Rose in J. Mitchell and J. Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1982. Geneva Lecture on the Symptom, Oct. 4 1975, transl. by Russell Grigg in Analysis No. 1, Centre for Psychoanalytic Research, Melbourne, 1989.

date unknown ca.1975 A Man and a Woman..., transl. by Carolyn Jane Henshaw in Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, PIT Press, 1996. 1976 A Lacanian Psychosis: Interview by Jacques Lacan, 13 Feb. 1976, transl. by Stuart Schneiderman (ed.), in Returning to Freud: Clinical Psychoanalysis in the School of Lacan, Yale University, 1980.

1980 A Letter to 'Le Monde', transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in October 40, Spring 1987. Letter of Dissolution. from Seminar XXVII, transl. by O. Zentner (ed.) in Papers of the Freudian School of Melbourne, PIT Press, 1980. In Autres Écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001. The Other is Missing from Seminar XXVII, transl. by Jeffrey Mehlman in October 40, Spring 1987. The Seminar XXVII, Paris, 10 June 1980. transl. by O. Zentner (ed.) in Papers of The Freudian School of Melbourne, PIT Press, 1981. The Seminar XXVII, Caracas, 12 July 1980. transl. by O. Zentner (ed.) in Papers of The Freudian School of Melbourne, PIT Press, 1981.

Seminars

Each seminar contains approximately 25 presentations from the fortnightly 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.