Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits: Sections I and II

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-01179-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Jacques Lacan’s Autres Écrits, compiled by Jacques Alain Miller for Lacan’s centennial, remains untranslated as a complete volume in English, though many individual pieces are available. This book begins a series offering a thorough commentary on the collection.

This first volume in the series covers the first two sections of the collection. Section II consists of early Lacanian texts and the commentaries here provide a fascinating and important insight into Lacan’s thinking from the 1930s and 1940s and seek to position these early writings in the broader context of Lacan’s oeuvre. Section I consists of two very different pieces which each, in rather different ways, serve as introductions to the Autres Écrits. First we have Jacques Alain Miller’s prologue which provides something of a context for the collection as a whole while also constituting a curious post-Lacanian artefact in its own right. This is followed by ‘Lituraterre’, a later piece by Lacan which considers the function of writing and literary creation and thus provides something of a conceptual framework to the collection qua collection of written works.

This commentary provides an invaluable support for Anglophone readers of Lacan, including psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of ideas, and anyone curious to access many of Lacan’s less well known texts in English.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Neill, Calum

Hook, Derek

Vanheule, Stijn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editor and contributor biographies

Acknowledgements

References to Works by Lacan

Jacques Lacan’s Seminars

Lacan, disincorporated: An introduction to Reading Lacan’s Autres Écrits, Volume One - Derek Hook, Calum Neill & Stijn Vanheule

Section I

Prologue – Stijn Vanhelue

Lituraterre – Jean Michel Rabate

Section II

Les complexes familiaux dans la formation de l’individu (The Family Complexes in the Formation of the Individual) – Ed Pluth

Le nombre treize et la forme logique de la suspicion (The Number Thirteen and the Logical Form of Suspicion) – Calum Neill

La psychiatrie anglaise et la guerre (English Psychiatry and the War) – Patrick ffrench

Prémisses à tout développement possible de la criminologie (Premises for Any Possible Development of Criminology) - Jochem Willemsen

Intervention au 1er Congrès mondial de psychiatrie (Intervention at the 1st World Congress on Psychiatry) - Patrick ffrench

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Calum Neill is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Continental Philosophy at Edinburgh Napier University, Director of Lacan in Scotland and runs a private practice in Edinburgh. He is the author of Jacques Lacan: the Basics (2023) (which is available in English, Greek, Korean, Spanish and Turkish), Psychology and Ethics: Beyond Codes of Practice (2016) and Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity (2014). With Derek Hook, he is the editor of the Palgrave Lacan Series. With Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule, he is the editor of the book series Reading Lacan’s Écrits and Reading Lacan’s Autres Écrits.

Derek Hook is Professor in Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh and an Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is the author of Six Moments in Lacan (2016), Fanon, Psychoanalysis and Decolonial Psychology (2025). With Calum Neill, he is editor of the Palgrave Lacan Series. With Calum Neill and Stijn Vanheule, he is the editor of the book series Reading Lacan’s Écrits and Reading Lacan’s Autres Écrits.

Stijn Vanheule is a Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is a privately practicing psychoanalyst and member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Subject of Psychosis – A Lacanian Perspective (2011); Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited – From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation (2017); and Why Psychosis is Not so Crazy (2024). With Calum Neill and Derek Hook, he is the editor of the book series Reading Lacan’s Écrits and Reading Lacan’s Autres Écrits