The Lacan Circle is an associate group of the New Lacanian School of the World Association of Psychoanalysis
We provide training, teaching and research in the field of Lacanian psychoanalysis
Seminar: Lacan Goes to the Theatre
Russell Grigg’s Semester II Lacan Circle Seminar begins this week
Mourning and desire in Hamlet
The essence of tragedy in Antigone
Seminars IV, Desire and Its Interpretation
Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Ten sessions over ten weeks
Register now to join us on Saturday!
New Lacan Circle Reading Group
FORMATIONS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
The Lacan Circle read Jacques Lacan’s Seminar V online and every Wednesday
The Paternal Metaphor
The Oedipus Complex
Desire and Jouissance
The Graph of Desire
Register now to participate
Call For Papers
PSYCHOANALYSISLACAN is calling for submissions
Volume 6 of the Lacan Circle Journal will be published early in 2023 and will follow the theme of our November International Conference
WE’RE ALL MAD HERE
We publish papers, essays, book reviews and creative works
Lacan Circle International Conference
November 26 – 27 in Melbourne or by Zoom
WE’RE ALL MAD HERE
Including our keynote Jorge Assef, EOL, WAP, on ‘The Madness of Each One’ and talks and presentations by Lacan Circle members and associates. All welcome!
Lacan Circle Reading Group: Seminar IV
The Object Relation
This group concluded in August 2022
We read Seminar IV over the course of one year. Thank you to everyone who participated! A new reading group commenced on 17 August to read Seminar V, Formations of the Unconscious
We read Lacan every Wednesday
Lacan Circle Winter Webinar
Lacan in the USA
A three week reading and interrogation of Lacan’s 1975 USA talks at Yale, Columbia University and MIT
Presented by Russell Grigg
This webinar has concluded, the recordings are available here and there is no fee
The Lacanian Review (TLR) Issue 12
AMERICAN LACAN has arrived in Australia!
Including the papers given by Jacques Lacan during his University lecture tour of the USA in 1975, Pierre-Gille Guéguen’s ‘American Lacan’, Marie-Hélène Brousse, Jorge Assef and more
The full table of contents and the purchase details are here
NLS International Congress 2023
Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and in Civilisation
To be held in Paris in May 2023
Read the full Congress introduction by NLS President Daniel Roy here
More details will be provided in the coming months
Lacan Circle Reading Group: Freud
In July 2022 we finished a full reading of Sigmund Freud’s masterwork, The Interpretation of Dreams
This group is currently in recess, and our next read will be announced soon!
We read Freud on Mondays
Lacan Circle Cartels
In formation and at work now
A cartel is a small group of three to five members, ‘cartelisands’, who elect to study and research together. They choose a ‘plus-one’ to lead and animate the life of the cartel, facilitate a productive group dynamic, and maintain a distance between knowledge and truth.
Register your interest here
