Écrits, a selection (Jacques Lacan) : 1977 : Alan Sheridan
by Julia Evans on January 1, 1977
Author & Translator: Alan Sheridan
With Commentaries on the graphs and Classified index of the major concepts by Jacques-Alain Miller : 1966
Published: Écrits, a selection: London, Tavistock: 1977
Contents & availability
Translator’s note – page vii – xii – see www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Sheridan) or authors by date (1977)
Bibliographical note – page xiii – xiv – see www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Sheridan) or authors by date (1977)
ONE The mirror stage as formative of the function of the I – Page 1 – 7 :
Information & availability : Mirror Stage: 1936, 1938, 1949, 1966: Jacques Lacan or here
TWO Aggressivity in psychoanalysis – page 8 – 29
Information & availability Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis : mid-May 1948 (Brussels) : Jacques Lacan or here
THREE The function and field of speech and language in psychoanalysis – Page 30 – 113
Information & availability : The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis (Rome) : 26th September 1953 : Jacques Lacan or here
FOUR The Freudian thing – page 114 – 145
Information & availability : The Freudian Thing or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis : (Vienna) 7th November 1955 : Jacques Lacan or here
FIVE The agency of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud – page 146 – 178
Information & availability : The Agency (Insistence or Instance) of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud (Sorbonne, Paris) : 9th May 1957 : Jacques Lacan or here
SIX On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis – page 179 – 225
Information & availability : On a question preliminary to any possible treatment of psychosis : 1955-1956 : two most important parts of Seminar III : Jacques Lacan or here This is dated December 1955 to January 1956 at the end of the text
SEVEN The direction of the treatment and the principles of its power – page 226 – 280
Information & availability: The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power:10th-13th July 1958 : Jacques Lacan or here
EIGHT The signification of the phallus – page 281 – 291
Information & availability : The Meaning (or Signification) of the Phallus (Munich): 9th May 1958 : Jacques Lacan or here
NINE The subversion of the subject and the dialectic of desire in the Freudian unconscious – page 292 – 325
Information The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire (Royaumont): 19th to 23rd September 1960: Jacques Lacan or here
CLASSIFIED index of the major concepts – Page 326 – 331
Classified index of the major concepts: 1966 : Jacques-Alain Miller
Translated by Alan Sheridan :
P326 – 331 see www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Miller) or authors by date (1977)
COMMENTARY on the graphs – Page 332 – 335
Commentary on the graphs : 1966 : Jacques-Alain Miller
Published in a supplement to the second edition of the Écrits & published separately in Les Cahiers de l’Analyse Nos. l-2 (1968)
Translated by Alan Sheridan :
P332 – 335 – see www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Miller) or authors by date (1977)
See also p293, 296 & 297 of Lacan and the Discourse of the Other : 1968 : Anthony Wilden : Availability here
INDEX of Freud’s German terms page 336
P336 – see www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z (Sheridan) or authors by date (1977)
Index of proper names Page 337
Published in French:
Écrits : Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller : 1966 : Éditions du Seuil
Many of the texts are available individually at the web-site of École Lacanienne de la Psychanalyse : http://www.ecole-lacanienne.net/fr/p/lacan /5. Pas-tout Lacan
For further details of the availability of translations, please see Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here
Commentary & Background Information
Prefatory Note, the historical background of ‘The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis’ (1953) by Jacques Lacan : 1968 : Anthony Wilden or here
Lacan and the Discourse of the Other : 1968 : Anthony Wilden or here
A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson or here
Commentaries & Information from ‘Jacques Lacan & the École Freudienne: Feminine Sexuality’ : 1982 : Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose or here
The works of Jacques Lacan: an introduction : 1986 : Bice Benvenuto & Roger Kennedy or here
From the book cover (1977 updated after 1981):
Jacques Lacan was arguably the most influential French thinker after Sartre. Yet of the extraordinary constellation of minds to emerge into prominence in France in the 1950s – Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Barthes, Foucault, and others – Lacan took the longest to achieve general recognition. The notorious density of his language was one reason for the dealy. Another was that he was not a systematic thinker, unfolding the development of his thought from one book to another. Indeed, his only ‘book’, his doctoral thesis on paranoia, was published as long ago as 1932. He was a practising psychoanalyst, concerned particularly with the training of analysts. He was also a lecturer; for over twenty years his weekly ‘seminar’ was a principal source of his influence and reputation in France. A true follower of Freud, he listened, then spoke. All these ‘writings’ originated as speech, as lectures delivered to fellow analysts or students. This selection of the Écrits – Lacan’s own – represents just under half of the original French volume.
For Lacan, much of the development in psychoanalysis that followed Freud was a betrayal, an evasion of the radical nature of the original Freudian insights. Freud’s theory and practice was either ossified into an institutionalized orthodoxy or distorted by various ‘revisionisms’. Lacan’s own way was to return to Freud’s writings, and to the unconscious as the preponderant concern for psychoanalysis. The gist of all Lacan’s teaching was implicitly contained in a principle stated by Freud: that psychoanalysis is the intersubjective communication between analyst and patient and its sole medium is the patient’s speech. Lacan himself made explicit the significance of this statement in his famous dictum: ‘the unconscious is structured as a language’.
Jacques Lacan died in 1981.
‘The Selection, authorized by Lacan, is necessary reading for anyone concerned with psychoanalysis and its radical effect on all the other human sciences.’: New Society
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Further texts
Autres Écrits: 2001 : Jacques Lacan or here
Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan or here
Some Lacanian history here
Lacanian Transmission here
Of the clinic here
Contemporary Case Studies here
Ordinary Psychosis here
The Symptom in the 21st century here
Translation Working Group here
From LW working groups here
Use of power here
By Alan Sheridan here
By Sigmund Freud here
Notes on texts by Sigmund Freud here
By Jacques Lacan here
Notes on texts by Jacques Lacan here
By Julia Evans here