Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture

Hook, Derek; Neill, Calum; Vanheule, Stijn

Abstract

In comparison to Sigmund Freud’s oeuvre that of course exists in the collected form of the Standard Edition, Jacques Lacan’s written work exists in a far more scattered and diffuse state. Prior to the eventual 15 November 1966 publication date of the Ecrits, Lacan’s writings were in a fragmentary state, appearing in select psychoanalytic journals that few could access. An unwieldy, conglomerate ‘urtext,’ the Ecrits might appear to have no clear precedent. B. Fink notes that Lacan never characterizes his seminars as poubellication, adding furthermore that while Lacan claimed to find no major errors in the published version of the seminars, such errors were to be found in the Ecrits. Through Lacan’s kaleidoscopic text ideas get compressed, distorted, disguised, subjected to the multiple dreamwork operations that separate latent from manifest contents of Lacan’s theoretical desire.

Citation

Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (2019). Introduction to ‘Reading the Écrits’: La trahison de l’écriture. In D. Hook, C. Neill, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache' (1-5). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429294310-1

• Acceptance Date: Feb 1, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Aug 7, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Jul 13, 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 1-5
• Book Title: Reading Lacan's Écrits: From ‘The Freudian Thing’ to 'Remarks on Daniel Lagache'
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429294310-1