Ecrits
A Selection
by Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan · first published 1966
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Presents an English translation of Jacques Lacan's most famous work, with translations of all the papers featured in the original French edition.
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…Euronews, Reuters, WSJ, NYT, and every newspaper in the entire world. Most people I am sure, read or watch the news, either online or on TV. We don't need the duplicated links. I have recently read Ecrits by Jacques Lacan, at no time did I think. OOh! I better upload a link for those wonderful people on HN to read it, just because I enjoyed it. How narcissistic and smug of me to even think that. I personally…
on “Ask HN: What posts are you most interested in on Hacker News?” ↗…to the translation. On the other hand, the German edition tends to be a bit pompous, probably in order to establish the text in the context of the German academic discourse of the time. (Especially the Ecrits are about unreadable at times.) The Seminars, however, are, at least in the original, colloquial, slowly spoken, trying to find appropriate words for where there are none. And he's developing a methodology…
on “Philosophy as Math-Like Thinking” ↗Generally, don't start with the "ecrits" (writings), they are hermetic and you really have to have some head start on this. From the seminars, Livre XI, Les quatres concepts fondamentaux de le psychoanalyse (1964) may be a start, as it – in…
on “Simply explained: How does GPT work?” ↗Jacques Lacan Ecrits: The First Complete Edition in English 895 pages I am re-reading this as I have only recently bought it again after lending it to a student a few years ago. Not for the faint hearted. A most controversial…