
Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits: Sections I and II
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 23. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-1-041-00988-7 (ISBN)
Description
Jacques Lacan's Autres Ecrits, 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 Ecrits. 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.
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 Ecrits. 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
16 s/w Zeichnungen, 3 s/w Tabellen, 16 s/w Abbildungen
3 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-00988-7 (9781041009887)
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Calum Neill | Derek Hook | Stijn Vanheule
Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits: Sections I and II
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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 Ecrits and Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits.
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 Ecrits and Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits.
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 Ecrits and Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits
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 Ecrits and Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits.
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 Ecrits and Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits
Content
Editor and contributor biographies
Acknowledgements
References to Works by Lacan
Jacques Lacan's Seminars
Lacan, disincorporated: An introduction to Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits, 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
Premisses a tout developpement possible de la criminologie (Premises for Any Possible Development of Criminology) - Jochem Willemsen
Intervention au 1er Congres mondial de psychiatrie (Intervention at the 1st World Congress on Psychiatry) - Patrick ffrench
Index
Acknowledgements
References to Works by Lacan
Jacques Lacan's Seminars
Lacan, disincorporated: An introduction to Reading Lacan's Autres Ecrits, 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
Premisses a tout developpement possible de la criminologie (Premises for Any Possible Development of Criminology) - Jochem Willemsen
Intervention au 1er Congres mondial de psychiatrie (Intervention at the 1st World Congress on Psychiatry) - Patrick ffrench
Index