Jacques Lacan died in September 1981 at the age of 81. The French press, the mass media and several members of the French government all paid him tribute. For several years his name had been linked with that of Sigmund Freud, and he was often referred to as the French Freud. Students of medicine and the social sciences studied his writings, or pretended to read them. Even some secondary school ...

In the 1950s Jacques Lacan developed a set-up with a concave mirror and a plane mirror, based on which he described the nature of human identification. He also formulated ideas on how psychoanalysis, qua clinical practice, responds to identification. In this paper Lacan's schema of the two mirrors is described in detail and the theoretical line of reasoning he aimed to articulate with aid of th...

despite his personal proximity to Georges Bataille, jacques lacan makes very few direct references to his work. Indeed, the only mention of Bataille’s name in the 878 pages of the Écrits is in a footnote to “on a Question prior to any possible treatment of psychosis.”1 this article declares that daniel schreber, the prototypical psychotic, was exposed to inner experience by his insight that “Go...

The French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) started his exploration of the human mind because during his work he discovered that there were certain cases that could not be explained somatically. In order to understand psychiatrist patients, it was not enough to understand the human body, but also the condition in general. As that other doctor, Freud, had encountered the ...

Slavoj Žižek has made it his essential project to renew an understanding of G.W.F. Hegel’s subjectivity by means of the psychoanalytic theory and practice of Jacques Lacan. One crucial element in such an endeavor is Lacan’s notion of the lamella, a particular understanding of excessive desire as indestructible and exterior to the self. I would like to investigate Žižek’s characterization of the...

1 Jacques Lacan had theorized that as human beings, "we have no power of our own, we construct a self in fantasy to make life bearable." 1 Fantasy becomes the primary domain for us to console ourselves, since, according to Slavoj Zizek, "fantasy space functions as an empty surface, as a kind of screen for the projection of desires: the fascinating presence of its positive contents does nothing ...