The Agency (Insistence or Instance) of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud (Sorbonne, Paris) : 9th May 1957 : Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on May 9, 1957
This lecture took place on the 9th May 1957 in the Descartes Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne, at the request of the philosophy group of the Fédération des étudiants ès Lettres. The lecture was written up May 14-16 1957 and published in volume titled ‘Psychoanalysis and the Sciences of Man’, then in Écrits : 1966.
Translated into English
1) Translated by Jan Miel : as The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious : Yale French Studies, Vol 36/37, 1966 ,p112-147 :
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Reprinted in Jacques Ehrmann (ed) : Structuralism : 1970 : NY Anchor Books : p101-137
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2) Published in Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan : Information here
– Translated by Alan Sheridan as ‘The agency of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud’ : p146-176 of Jacques Lacan, Écrits – a selection, Tavistock, 1977
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– Translated by Bruce Fink as ‘The instance of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud’ in Écrits, Jacques Lacan, The first complete edition in English : W.W. Norton & Co : 2002 : p412-444 : Also published bilingual at www.Freud2Lacan.com, see here
Published in French:
a) La Psychanalyse III : 1957 p47-81
b) Écrits : 1966 : Information here
c) Pas Tout Lacan :
Published at École Lacanienne de la Psychanalyse – Pas Tout Lacan : here : available, in French, here [1957-05-09 – L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient ou la raison depuis Freud or here ]
NOTE : Published at École Lacanienne de la Psychanalyse – Pas Tout Lacan (here): This site has been redesigned and I cannot find this text on it. The nearest is here
Commentaries:
– Translator’s note, Bibliography Note : 1977 : Alan Sheridan & Classified index of the major concepts, Commentary on the graphs : 1966 : Jacques-Alain Miller : from ‘Écrits: a selection’ See here
– A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson : Information here: Ch 5: The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud : Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan
Further information :
Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here
References
Presented at the panel on Technical Implications of Ego Psychology at the midwinter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York , December 1948.
Published in Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol 20: 1951
Information here
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Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan Information here
Autres Écrits: 2001 : Jacques Lacan Information here
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Lacanian Transmission here
Of the clinic here
Topology and the Lacanian clinic here
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From LW working groups here
Use of power here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
By Alan Sheridan here
By Julia Evans here