Notes:
1) Seminar XIII began on 1st December 1965. This first session has been published as ‘Science and Truth’ : See Science and Truth (Opening session of Seminar XIII) : 1st December 1965 : Jacques Lacan, at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19651201 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts). This is also published in Écrits see this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19661001 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
2) For the summary, see Report from the Seminar ‘Object of Psychoanalysis’ (Seminar XIII) : July 1967 : Jacques Lacan, on this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19670701 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts). This is also published as p219-220 of Autres Ecrits : 2001 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan (20011001 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts).
Translation into English:
Cormac Gallagher’s translation of Seminar XIII, The Object of Psychoanalysis. This is translated directly from tape-recordings and is therefore unedited.
Published at www.LacaninIreland.com /Seminars
Headings:
Seminar XIII THE OBJECT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS (1965 – 1966)
(1) December 1965 (I) Science and truth (Translation of this session not included at www.LacaninIreland.com) See at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19651201 or Index of Jacques Lacan’s texts)
(II) 8 December 1965 The subject and lack,
(III) 15 December 1965 Topology and the subject,
(IV) 22 December 1965 A Green on the o-object, (JE, usually translated as the a-object)
(V) 5 January 1966 The o-object (JE: usually translated as the a-object),
(VI) 12 January 1966 Subject of science and of psychoanalysis,
(VII) 19 January 1966 Mirror stage and the Divine Comedy,
(VIII) 26 January 1966 Discussion on Conrad Stein‟s work,
(IX) 2 February 1966 Pascal’s Wager I,
(X) 9 February 1966 Pascal’s Wager II,
(XI) 25 February 1966 LACAN ABSENT,
(XII) 23 March 1966 Lacan on America,
(XIII) 30 March 1966 Topological discussions,
(XIV) 20 April 1966 Summary of Crucial Problems; Jouissance,
(XV) 27 April 1966 Jones’ Female sexuality,
pXV 165 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation
Ernest Jones : The early development of female sexuality [aphanisis] : 1st September 1927 (Innsbruck). See this site /5 Authors A-Z (Jones or Index of Authors’ texts)
&
Joan Rivière : 1929 : Womanliness as a masquerade. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Rivière or Index of Authors’ texts)
(XVI) 4 May 1966 Visual structure of the subject,
(XVII) 11 May 1966 Perspective: Las Meninas I
Seminar XIII 11th May 1966 : pXVII 200 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation : I am speaking about Michel Foucault and this picture by Velazquez which is called Las Meninas. Les Meninas by Diego Velázquez (1656). For full quotations see Sigmund Freud & Jacques Lacan use of the Pictures shown in the Slider : first posted 8th February 2023 : Julia Evans, at this site /1st August 2025 which will be altered to 1st August 2026, etc
(XVIII) 18 May 1966 Michel Foucault: Las Meninas II
Les Meninas by Diego Velázquez (1656)
– Seminar XIII 18th May 1966, For full quotations see Sigmund Freud & Jacques Lacan use of the Pictures shown in the Slider : first posted 8th February 2023 : Julia Evans, at this site /1st August 2025 which will be altered to 1st August 2026, etc
(XIX) 25 May 1966 Summary of Object of psychoanalysis; Las Meninas III
Les Meninas by Diego Velázquez (1656)
– Seminar XIII 25th May 1966, For full quotations see Sigmund Freud & Jacques Lacan use of the Pictures shown in the Slider : first posted 8th February 2023 : Julia Evans, at this site /1st August 2025 which will be altered to 1st August 2026, etc
(XX) 1 June 1966 Re-thinking Freud; Las Meninas IV
Les Meninas by Diego Velázquez (1656)
– Seminar XIII 1st June 1966, For full quotations see Sigmund Freud & Jacques Lacan use of the Pictures shown in the Slider : first posted 8th February 2023 : Julia Evans, at this site /1st August 2025 which will be altered to 1st August 2026, etc
(XXI) 8 June 1966 Jouissance and castration
(XXII) 15 June 1966 o-objects; Safouan‟s case
Les Meninas by Diego Velázquez (1656)
– Seminar XIII 15th June 1966 For full quotations see Sigmund Freud & Jacques Lacan use of the Pictures shown in the Slider : first posted 8th February 2023 : Julia Evans, at this site /1st August 2025 which will be altered to 1st August 2026, etc
Publication in French
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-École lacanienne de psychanalyse – E. L. P. –
(http://ecole-lacanienne.net ) / Lacan-Bibliothèque
/at http://ecole-lacanienne.net/bibliolacan/stenotypies-version-j-l-et-non-j-l/
Introduction to Lacan-Bibliothèque, Seminars – Jacques Lacan – J.L. and not J.L. versions (Internet translation)
The École lacanienne de psychanalyse’s library makes all of Jacques Lacan’s seminars available to the Internet public, in the basic form of available stenotypes. A stenographer assisted Jacques Lacan in each of his seminar sessions, from 1953 to 1980. At the end of each session, she typed up the stenotype tapes, in duplicate or triplicate, using a process that had been famous for a century: carbon paper.
For most of the seventies, J.L. versions were supplemented by others which, whatever their merits, were not of the same quality. While they sometimes correct errors, it is never out of the question for them to add others of their own, which are all the more difficult to perceive since, unlike J.L., their texts often have a typographical quality that is not matched by an equal critical effort.
It goes without saying that all these documents are in image format (.pdf).
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-Unedited transcription directly from recordings at http://staferla.free.fr .
Introduction
Ce document de travail a pour sources principales :
– L’objet de la psychanalyse, sténotypie au format P.D.F., sur le site E.L.P.
– L’objet de la psychanalyse, version critique de Michel ROUSSAN .
Le texte de ce séminaire nécessite l’installation de la police de caractères spécifique, dite « Lacan », disponible ici :
http://fr.ffonts.net/Lacan.font.download (placer le fichier Lacan.ttf dans le répertoire c:windowsfonts)
Les références bibliographiques privilégient les éditions les plus récentes. Les schémas sont refaits.
N.B. Ce qui s’inscrit entre crochets droits [ ] n’est pas de Jacques Lacan.
English translation using the internet
The main sources for this working paper are:
– The Object of Psychoanalysis, stenotype in PDF format, on the E.L.P. website.
– The Object of Psychoanalysis, critical version by Michel ROUSSAN.
The text of this seminar requires installation of the special “Lacan” font, available here:
http://fr.ffonts.net/Lacan.font.download (place the Lacan.ttf file in the c:windowsfonts directory)
Bibliographical references are based on the most recent editions. Diagrams have been redrawn.
N.B. What’s in right square brackets [ ] is not by Jacques Lacan.
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In French, printed & edited :
JACQUES LACAN
LE SÉMINAIRE livre XII
L’objet de la psychanalyse
TEXTE ÉTABLI PAR JACQUES-ALAIN MILLER
SEUIL & LE CHAMP FREUDIEN (December 2025)
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Further Information
Information on Seminar XIII
Mathemes
Jacques Lacan’s Mathemes
Here is the computer version of a Mathematics Thesaurus taken from written texts and from Dr.. Lacan. It covers all the texts written by Lacan and all the seminars he held in 1953 at 1979. Accompanying this thesaurus, there is a search tool allowing to visualize the citations comprising one or more mathemes, these appearing in chronological order.
Go to https://www.lutecium.org/category/exact-sciences/topology/topologos#gsc.tab=0
OR to https://www.lutecium.org/mathemes/node404.html
Citations
8th June 1966 Seminar XIII
Lacan and Topology : 8th October 2011 : Bruno de Florence,
see this site /5 Authors A-Z (de Florence or Index of Authors’ texts). Quote, The use of Topology by Lacan has baffled many of his readers, most especially those with no background in Maths. Lacan himself did not help as what he presented was his own version of Topology, just as he did with Logic. … Can Topology be considered as a metaphor in its use in psychoanalysis? Lacan at first says no, then in his typical fashion of saying the same thing and its opposite, from one year to the next, or within the same seminar, says yes: “the efforts I am making to bring you a topology are to account (my Italics) for a form to allows us to conceive of these anomalies which are ours, concerning those problems of inside and outside” (Seminar XIII 8th June 1966). So Topology is and is not a metaphor!