Lacan’s Writings/Seminars

1932 On Paranoiac Psychosis in its Relation to the Personality

1938 Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual

1945 Logical Time

1946 Remarks on Psychical Causality

1948 Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis

1949 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I

1950 A Theoretical Introduction to the Function of Psychoanalysis in Criminology

1951 An Intervention on the Transference

1953 - 1954 Seminar I: Freud’s Papers on Technique

1954 Introduction to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s ‘Negation’ and ‘Reply to JH’s Commentary …

1954 - 1955 Seminar II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis

1955 Variants of the Typical Treatment

!955 Seminar on “The Purloined Letter”

1955 The Freudian Thing, or the Direction of a Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis

1955 - 56 Seminar III The Psychoses

1956 The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Formation of the Analyst in 1956

1956 - 1957 Seminar IV Object Relations and Freudian Structures

1957 Psychoanalysis and its Teaching

1957 The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason since Freud

1957 On a Question Preliminary to any Possible Treatment of Psychosis

1957 - 1958 Seminar V The Formations of the Unconscious

1958 Gide’s Youth or the Letter and Desire

1958 The Meaning of the Phallus

1958 The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power

1958 A Remark on Daniel Lagache’s Report “Psychoanalysis and the Structure of Personality

1958 - 1959 Seminar VI Desire and its Interpretation

1959 In Memory of Ernest Jones: On his Theory of Symbolism

1959 - 1960 Seminar VII The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

1960 Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality

1960 The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectics of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious

1960 Position of the Unconscious

1960 - 1961 Seminar VIII The Transference

1961 - 1962 Seminar IX Identification

1962 Kant with Sade

1962 - 1963 Seminar X Anxiety

1964 Seminar XI The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

1964 On Freud’s “Trieb” (Drive) and the Desire of the Psychoanalyst

1964 - 1965 Seminar XII Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis

1965 Homage to Margaret Duras, on the Rapture of Lol V. Stein

1965 Science and Truth

1965 - 1966 Seminar XIII The Object of Psychoanalysis

1966 Ecrits

1966 - 1967 Seminar XIV The Logic of Fantasy

1967 - 1968 Seminar XV The Psychoanalytic Act

1968 - 1969 Seminar XVI From an Other to the Other

1969 - 1970 Seminar XVII The Hidden Face of Psychoanalysis

1970 - 1971 Seminar XVIII On a Discourse that wouldn’t be Appearance

1971 - 1972 Seminar XIX … Or Worse

1972 - 1973 Seminar XX Again

1973 - 1974 Seminar XXI The Non-Dupes Wander/The Names of the Father

1974 - 1975 Seminar XXII RSI Real, Symbolic Imaginary

1975 - 1976 Seminar XXIII The Sinthome

1976 - 1977 Seminar XXIV One Knew That It Was a Mistaken Moon on Wings of Love

1977 - 1978 Seminar XXV The Moment for Concluding

1978 - 1979 Seminar XXVI Topology and Time

1980 Seminar XXVII Dissolution

“The unconscious is structured like a language.”

Jacques Lacan, “The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud" (1957)