What did Lacan write?

A handful of important texts were composed during and after the War, all of which eventually got reprinted in Lacan’s magnum opus, Écrits (1966): “Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism” (1945); “Presentation on Psychical Causality” (1946); “Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis” (1948); and …

What is the subject of enunciation?

What is the subject of the enunciation? The subject of the enunciation can be understood as the subject of the unconscious. It is a subject that emerges from within our speech, through our signifiers, and which differs from or contradicts the I of the statement.

What is the ideal I Lacan?

Lacan’s “ideal ego” is the ideal of perfection that the ego strives to emulate; it first affected the subject when he saw himself in a mirror during the mirror stage, which occurs around 6-18 months of age (see the Lacan module on psychosexual development).

Was Lacan a Freudian?

Jacques Lacan was a Parisian psychiatrist who was born in 1901 and who died in 1981. He gained an international reputation as an original interpreter of Sigmund Freud’s work.

What is the best introduction to Lacan’s work?

His ‘The Lacanian Subject’ provides perhaps one of the best introductions to Lacan’s thought, written with great clarity and (mercifully) without pretension. Another introduction to Lacan’s work that must get frequently overlooked, perhaps on account of its title, is Van Haute’s ‘Against Adaptation’.

What are the best books to read on Lacan philosophy?

I would recommend anything by the ‘earlier period’ Zizek, but especially The Sublime Object of Ideology and Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture. Whilst he divides opinion amongst Lacanians, these two works in particular are a pleasure to read.

Who is the most well-known Lacanist?

And so to Zizek – probably the world’s most well-known Lacanian, his name is now so closely associated with Lacan in the popular mind that it would be stupid to neglect him on a list like this.

What is the real in Lacan’s scheme?

Indeed, the chief qualities of the real in Lacan’s scheme are that it is unsymbolisable and unrepresentable, that it precedes, exceeds, and supersedes any attempt to give it a coherent and comprehensible form.