This letter attaches ‘my seminar of the 15th January’ : The text of this seminar appeared in Le Monde of 26th January 1980, preceded by the following letter dated 24th January 1980. Note : the letter is published after the 15th January text.

Translated by Jeffrey Mehlman :

Published

1) October Vol 40, 1987, p133 ;

Available www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan

2) Reprinted in Joan Copjec (ed.) : Television/A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment : 1990 : W. W. Norton and Company (New York NY) : p135 : Check www.LacanianWorks.org, then see https://web.archive.org/web/20220814145023/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12366

3) published bilingual at www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (77. AUTRES ÉCRITS Dissolution— L’Autre manqué)

In French:

L’autre manque : Ornicar? : 1980 : Vol 20/21 : p13

Related texts :

First search this site, www.LacanianWorks.org, for any updated text, then go to https://web.archive.org/web/20221205223226/https://lacanianworks.net/2022/08/jacques-lacan-in-english/ for the links to Jacques Lacan’s texts, as at December 2022.

LW.org/Letter of dissolution : 5th January 1980 : Jacques Lacan

LW.org/The Other is Missing [The Other lacks] : 15th January 1980 : Jacques Lacan

LW.org/Letter to Le Monde : 24th January 1980 : Jacques Lacan

LW.org/Dissolution! Lumière! (Light) : 15th April 1980 : Jacques Lacan

LW.org/Dissolution! The Misunderstanding or Mis-Heard : Paris, 10th June 1980 : Jacques Lacan

Further texts

Dossier on the Institutional Debate, An Introduction : 1990 : Joan Copjec See LW.org or https://web.archive.org/web/20220814145023/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12020