Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar : 20th November 1963 (Paris) : 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 : 20th November 1963
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
d) Published at Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (7. Lacan’s November 20 1963 Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father (3 translations))
Index of text published at www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan
-A Brief Note on Lacan’s Presentation on the ‘Names-of-the-Father’ on the establishment of its text and its translation : 7th March 2022 (Miami, Florida, USA) : Mario L. Beira
-Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar by Jacques Lacan : Jacques-Alain Miller’s edited text (2005), with 3 translations: Jeffrey Mehlmann (1987), Bruce Fink (2013) Mario Beira (February 2022)
-Bilingual Seminar XI : 15th January 1964, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, p1-12 of Alan Sheridan’s translation. See Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts: 1963-1964 : beginning 15th January 1964 : Jacques Lacan or here
NOTE
There are gaps and extra lines (in blue) in Jeffrey Mehlmann’s translation (www.Freud2Lacan.com) which were not in Jacques-Alain Miller’s 2005 French text. This might indicate that Jeffrey Mehlman was using the 1985 text (see below) rather than the one Jacques-Alain Miller publishes in 2005. Further exploration of this point : Comment on how Jacques Lacan’s texts grow or shrink over time! : 11th March 2022 : Julia Evans by Julia Evans on 11th March 2022 here
Published in French
Séminaire du 20 novembre 1963, in Bulletin de l’Association freudienne, 1985, vol 12, p3-5; vol 13 p3-6
Des Noms-du-Père – Jacques Lacan, Éditions du Seuil, 2005
Commentaries
Dossier on the Institutional Debate, An Introduction : 1990 : Joan Copjec or here
The Name-of-the-Father: Psychoanalysis and Democracy : 2003 : Éric Laurent or here
How to recompose the Name-of-the Father : 2004 : Éric Laurent or here
Paternity …. Fatherhood by Julia Evans on 10th October 2005 or here
Three names in the inexistent seminar : 2006: Gil Caroz or here
Citation
Further texts
Some Lacanian history https://lacanianworks.net/category/lacanianworks-references-to-freud-lacan/some-lacanian-history/
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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