Lacan’s unpublished seminars

INTRODUCTION

These translations were originally done for a reading group of colleagues and graduates which has met since 1987.  Each translation was drafted during the summer vacation, was worked through on a weekly basis by the group and then given its present form.

Tony Hughes has undertaken the task of putting the original photocopies of the seminars into a presentable form.  Here is his description of where the work is at:

a)      All seminars will be updated to improve readability and give a more professional finished product. This requires a very large number of adjustments, given the number of seminars involved.

b)      The following seminars have the diagrams inserted: Seminars V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIII, XIV.

c)       The remaining seminars do not as yet have any diagrams inserted, these are: XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, and XXIII.

d)      As each of the seminars is completed it will be added to the website and the existing version will be removed.

Seminars of Jacques Lacan 1973-1980

*=Translated by Cormac Gallagher

To download a document, click on Seminar name.