Although Lacan's notion of "university discourse" circulates widely today, it is seldom used in its precise meaning (designating a specific "discourse," social link). As a rule, it functions as a ...

A new biography explores the power dynamics of psychoanalysis. By Juliet Jacques Known as an unorthodox psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan hated the thought of being misinterpreted. A ...

Mr. Edmundson is a professor at the University of Virginia and the author, most recently, of “The Age of Guilt: The Super-Ego in the Online World.” Most of my students at the University of Virginia ...

Give him these forty-five minutes and he’ll turn your mind inside out. It’s up to the viewer to decide whether this result is desirable. In a filmed lecture from 1974, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan ...

My first week with my new kitten Evelyn has reminded me of French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan’s discussion of the childhood game Hide-and-Seek or in Freud’s parlance “fort/da” — an ...

I’ve just received galleys for one of the books I’m most excited about for fall: “Lacan at the Scene” by Henry Bond. The author takes crime-scene photographs from the nineteen-fifties (some quite ...