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 ...

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 ...

Psychoanalysis is a field of psychology that explores the unconscious mind, and how it shapes human behavior and experience. One of the most prominent figures in the history of psychoanalysis is ...

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 ...

This course covers works by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, who reread Freud through the lens of developing twentieth-century philosophy and ...