Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar : 20th November 1963: Jacques Lacan
by Julia Evans on November 20, 1963
Jacques Lacan’s opening remarks on 20th November 1963:
I don’t intend to engage in anything in the order of a theatrical ploy. I shall not wait until the end of this seminar to tell you that this will be the last that I shall conduct.
For some, apprised of things that have been occurring, that will not be a surprise. It is for the others, out of respect for their presence, that I am making this declaration.
I request that absolute silence be maintained during the session.
Up until sometime quite late last night, when a certain bit of news was delivered to me, (Footnote: On the night of November 19, 1963, Serge Leclaire informed Lacan that the S. F. P. had voted, in a complicated procedure, to refuse not to ratify the motion striking Lacan’s name from the list of training analysts.) it was my belief that I would be giving you this year what I have been dispensing for ten years now. My seminar for today was prepared with the same care as I have always devoted to it, every week, for the last ten years. I don’t think I can do any better than offer it to you as it is, with my apologies for the fact that it will have no sequel.
Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar
Translated into English
a) Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman, Published in October, vol 40, p81-95 : Available from www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan
b) Reprinted in Joan Copjec (ed.), Television/A challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, New York NY, W.W. Norton & Company, p81-95 : See here
Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan
c) P53-90 of On the Names-of-the-Father : Jacques Lacan : translated by Bruce Fink , Polity Press 2013 : Contact Julia Evans for a copy
Published in French
Séminaire du 20 novembre 1963, in Bulletin de l’Association freudienne, 1985, vol 12, p3-5; vol 13 p3-6
Further texts
Some Lacanian history here
Minutes of the meeting of the International Psychoanalytical Association : 30th July 1953 : Dr Heinz Hartmann (IPA President & Chairman of the Meeting) or here
Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment : 1990 : Joan Copjec (Editor) or here
Conference Report, SIR : Inaugural meeting of SFP, Paris : 8th July 1953 : Jacques Lacan or here
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Practicing Lacanian Psychoanalyst in Earl’s Court, London
Further posts:
Some Lacanian history here
Of the clinic here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
Use of power here