Jacques Lacan - Ecrits & Psychoanalytical Works (11 books)

JACQUES LACAN (1901-1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud". Giving yearly seminars in Paris from 1953 to 1981, the charismatic Lacan influenced many leading French intellectuals in the 1960s and the 1970s, especially those associated with poststructuralism. His ideas -- about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment -- had a significant impact on critical theory, literary theory, 20th-century French philosophy, sociology, feminist theory, film theory and clinical psychoanalysis. Lacan's writing is notoriously difficult, due in part to the repeated Hegelian/Kojèvean allusions, wide theoretical divergences from other psychoanalytic and philosophical theory, and an obscure prose style.

Lacan achieved international attention in 1966 with the publication of ÉCRITS, a compilation of his psychoanalytic writings spanning some thirty years of his career. ÉCRITS was included on the list of 100 most influential books of the 20th century compiled and polled by the broadsheet Le Monde. A selection of the writings were translated by Alan Sheridan in 1977 and again by Bruce Fink in 2004. The full text appeared for the first time in English in Bruce Fink's 2006 translation.

Jacques-Alain Miller is the sole editor of Lacan's SEMINARS, which contain the majority of his life's work. There has been considerable controversy over the accuracy or otherwise of the transcription and editing, as well as over Miller's refusal to allow any critical or annotated edition to be published. Despite Lacan's status as a major figure in the history of psychoanalysis, some of his seminars remain unpublished.


The following books (and nine unlisted articles) are in PDF format unless otherwise noted:

* ÉCRITS: The First Complete Edition in English (Norton, 2005). Translated by Bruck Fink in collaboration with Héloïse Fink and Russell Grigg.

* ÉCRITS: A Selection (1977; Routledge, 1989). Translated by Alan Sheridan, with a Foreword by Malcolm Bowie. -- PDF + ePUB

* ÉCRITS: A Selection (Norton, 2002). Translated by Bruck Fink in collaboration with Héloïse Fink and Russell Grigg.

* FEMININE SEXUALITY: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne (Macmillan, 1982). Edited by Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose; translated by Jacqueline Rose.

* MY TEACHING (Verso, 2008). Translated by David Macey.

* THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN, Book I: Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954 (Norton, 1988). Translated with Notes by John Forrester.

* THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN, Book II: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychanalysis, 1954-1955 (Norton, 1988). Translated by Sylvana Tomaselli with Notes by John Forrester.

* THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN, Book III: The Psychoses, 1955-1956 (Norton, 1993). Translated with Notes by Russell Grigg.

* THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN, Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-1960 (Norton, 1992). Translated with Notes by Dennis Porter.

* THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN, Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (Norton, 1978). Translated by Alan Sheridan.

* THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN, Book XX: On Feminine Sexuality, The Limits of Love and Knowledge, 1972-1973 (Norton, 1998). Translated with Notes by Bruce Fink.


See also:
* Sigmund Freud - Psychoanalytical Works (11 books)