The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Cover of the first edition
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| Editor | Jacques-Alain Miller |
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| Author | Jacques Lacan |
| Original title | 'Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse' |
| Translator | Alan Sheridan |
| Illustrator | Jay J. Smith |
| Cover artist | François Leclaire (photo) |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Series | Seminars of Jacques Lacan |
| Subject | Psychoanalysis |
| Publisher | Éditions du Seuil |
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Publication date
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1973 |
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Published in English
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1978 |
| Media type | Hardback, paperback |
| Pages | 290 |
| ISBN | |
| OCLC | 8106863 |
| Preceded by | Seminar X |
| Followed by | Seminar XII |
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis is the 1978 English-language translation of a seminar held by Jacques Lacan. The original (French: Le séminaire. Livre XI. Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse) was published in Paris by Le Seuil in 1973. The Seminar was held at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris between January and June 1964 and is the eleventh in the series of The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. The text was published by Jacques-Alain Miller.
In January 1963, Serge Leclaire succeeds Lacan as president of the S.F.P. (Societé Francaise de Psychanalyse). In May, envoys from the I.P.A (International Psychoanalytic Association) visit Paris and meet with Leclaire. Not only they express doubts about Lacan's attitude towards Freud, they also claim that Lacan manipulates transference through the short session: he must be excluded from the training courses. At the Congress of Stockholm, in July, the I.P.A. votes an ultimatum: within three months Lacan's name has to be crossed off the list of didacticians. Two weeks before the expiration of the deadline fixed by the I.P.A. (October 31), a motion is called for Lacan's name to be removed from the list of training analysts. On November 19 a general meeting has to make a final decision on I.P.A.'s conditions regarding Lacan. Lacan then writes a letter to Leclaire announcing he will not attend the meeting because he can foresee the disavowal. Thus, on November 19, the members' majority takes the position in favor of the ban. As a result Lacan no longer is one of the didacticians. The next day, his seminar on "The Names-of-the-Father" is to start at Sainte-Anne: he announces its end. Fragments of it will be published in L'excommunication. Lacan then founds L'École Française de Psychanalyse that will become L'École Freudienne de Paris (E.F.P.): "I hereby found the École Française de Psychanalyse, by myself, as alone as I have ever been in my relation to the psychoanalytic cause."
In early 1964, with Claude Lévi-Strauss and Fernand Braudel's support, he is appointed lecturer at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He begins his new seminar on "The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis" on January 15 in the Dussane room at the École Normale Supérieure.
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