Lacan on the Road explores a large number of talks, lectures, and interviews that Jacques Lacan gave away from his famous seminar in Paris. As well as providing an opportunity to examine some lesser-known works of Lacan, the book specifically seeks to explore how Lacans rhetoric and style changed for various audiences.
Sometimes, Lacan used talks away from his seminar to summarize current developments from his teaching and state them more succinctly and aphoristically. At other times, he used the opportunity of talking to an unfamiliar audience to announce completely new ideas. Readers familiar with the seminars will know that Lacan often came back invigorated from trips abroad or even from locales closer to home, such as Belgium and Italy. This book provides the opportunity to examine what he said on those occasions when he was away. What emerges here, then, is rich and rewarding supplemental body of Lacans work.
1: Some Reflections on the Ego, The Symbolic, the Imaginary and the
Real, Rome Discourse.- 2: Interview with Jacques Lacan (LExpress), True
Psychoanalysis, and False, Discourse to Catholics.- 3: Of Structure as an
Inmixing of an Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever, My Teaching,
The Mistaking of the Subject Supposed to Know, From Rome 53 to Rome 67:
Psychoanalysis, Reason for a Defeat.- 4: Analyticon, Radiophonie, Tokyo
Discourse.- 5: On Psychoanalytic Discourse, Death is in the Domain of Faith,
Extraordinary Session of the Belgian School of Psychoanalysis.- 6:
Psychoanalysis in Its Reference to the Sexual Relation, Excursus.- 7:
Television, La Troisième, Freud Forever-.- 8: The Lacanian Phenomenon,
Conference in London, Geneva Lecture on the Symptom, Lectures in America.- 9:
On James Joyce as a Symptom, Remarks on Hysteria, Aristotles Dream.- 10:
Lecture at Professor Denikers Clinic, Hôpital Sainte-Anne, Overture to the
First International Conference of the Freudian Field.
Dan Collins, PhD, MSW, lives and works in Buffalo, NY. He has lectured and published widely on Lacanian psychoanalysis. His annual seminar, delivered for many years to the group Lacan Toronto, is now housed in the Freud Lacan Institute, Dublin. With Eve Watson, Dan co-edited a recent collection on the drive. He is currently working on a new translation of Lacans Seminar 11.
