Content
English translations
Commentaries
Seminar IX : Dates of Sessions & References
Citations
English translations :
– translated by Cormac Gallagher. Published by www.LacaninIreland.com /Translations/Seminars
– Translated by Ben Hooson
Translated from transcriptions of the original tapes and Michel Roussan’s text, by Ben Hooson, December 2022. Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan
From Ben Hooson’s Introduction:
This is a new English translation of the ninth year of Jacques Lacan’s seminar (Seminar IX), held weekly at the Sainte Anne psychiatric hospital in Paris during term time in 1961-1962 and devoted to the theme of identification as relevant to Freudian psychoanalysis.
The French version of Seminar IX in the series of Lacan seminars under the editorship of Jacques-Alain Miller still awaits publication (as of December 2022). However, Seminar IX was already translated into English by Cormac Gallagher in a version that is available online (Gallagher’s English versions of Seminar IX and other Lacan seminars are described as “from unpublished French manuscripts”).[1] I took the earlier translation as a template for my own version, so it is for the reader to decide whether the latter is, in fact, a new translation or a revision.
The French sources, which I used, were, firstly, the original typescripts, prepared from on- the-spot stenographs of Lacan’s Wednesday seminars and available on the site of the École lacanienne, and, secondly, a “version critique” of Seminar IX, prepared by Michel Roussan. The latter is not available online, but Alain Lecat, manager and editor at Staferla, kindly put me in touch with Michel Roussan, from whom I purchased a hard copy. As Lecat explained, Staferla, which offers excellent, free-access online versions of all Lacan’s seminars, mainly followed Roussan’s text in preparing the Staferla version of Seminar IX, while omitting most of Roussan’s annotations and notes. (It should however, be understood that Staferla versions of other Lacan seminars are the work of the Staferla team itself.).
The task of translation would have been impossible without the Roussan version for three reasons (ordered from least to greatest): the copies of the typescript provided on the École lacanienne website are sometimes as hard to read as a newspaper that has been soaked in a bucket; the typescripts on the website are missing pages and even whole weeks of the seminar; and (crucially) the text of the typescripts is clearly not an accurate reproduction of what Lacan said.
It appears that Lacan rarely checked the typescripts for accuracy after the weekly seminar (in 1961-62 and in other years). An official copy of the text, which was stored at the main office of the École freudienne on rue Claude Bernard (the “Rue CB” version), corrects only the most flagrant errors (“feverfoune” for “Verwerfung”, “très socratique” for “Pré-socratique”, “une survie” for “1/φ”, etc.). We must sympathise with the stenographer and typist who had to struggle with sentences of Proustian length and unclear punctuation, extended parentheses (sometimes never closed), false starts, an abundance of foreign words and difficulty of the subject matter.
In preparing his critical version, Roussan took account of all available records of Seminar IX: the original typescript, the Rue CB version, the notes of several listeners (sometimes amounting to draft transcripts) and a second typescript, which drew together the sources just mentioned and which I have not been able to obtain. He uses margin notes to cite alternative versions of words, phrases and sentences. I have reproduced a sample page of the original typescript followed by the same page in Roussan’s version (after this Preface). Roussan’s appendices include a commentary on the excursions into topology, which dominate the seminars from March to June 1962.
[1] On the “about” page of Lacan in Ireland. The translation is marked “amended by MCL”. Acknowledgements on the same page suggest that MCL is Mary Cheyrou-Lagreze.
In French
Transcribed from original tape-recordings, Séminaire- Jacques Lacan 9 : L’identification at http://staferla.free.fr/S9/S9.htm
Commentaries:
Drive and Fantasy : 1994 : Pierre Skriabine : See this site, www.LacanianWorks.org (LW.org) /5 Other Authors A-Z or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=298
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan : 1986 : Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
Seminar IX : Dates of Sessions & References
1961
1 Wednesday 15th November 1961
p1-10 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 1-13 of Ben Hooson’s translation
2 Wednesday 22nd November 1961
p11-24 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 14-24 of Ben Hooson’s translation
3 Wednesday 29th November 1961
p25-27 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 25-38 of Ben Hooson’s translation
4 Wednesday 6th December 1961
p29-37 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 39-53 of Ben Hooson’s translation
Further information at Session [IV] of Seminar IX – The Identification : 6th December 1961 : Jacques Lacan, this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19611115 Seminar/ 19611206)
5 Wednesday 13th December 1961
p38-45 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 54-63 of Ben Hooson’s translation
6 Wednesday 20th December 1961
p46-57 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 64-79 of Ben Hooson’s translation
1962
7 Wednesday 10th January 1962
p58-70 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 80-97 of Ben Hooson’s translation
8 Wednesday 17th January 1962
p71-82 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 98-114 of Ben Hooston’s translation
9 Wednesday 24th January 1962
p83-92 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 115-127 of Ben Hooson’s translation
10 Wednesday 21st February 1962
p93-101 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 128-139 of Ben Hooson’s translation
11 Wednesday 28th February 1962
P102-111 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 140-152 of Ben Hooson’s translation
12 Wednesday 7th March 1962
Discussion of the torus
P112-125 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 153-169 of Ben Hooson’s translation
13 Wednesday 14th March 1962
P126-136 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 170-185 of Ben Hooson’s translation
14 Wednesday 21st March 1962
P137-147 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 186-199 of Ben Hooson’s translation
15: Wednesday 28th March 1962
P148-158 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 200-218 of Ben Hooson’s translation
16 Wednesday 4th April 1962
P159-167 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 219-230 of Ben Hooson’s translation
17 : p168 : Wednesday 11th April 1962
P168-190 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 231-254 of Ben Hooson’s translation
18 Wednesday 2nd May 1962
P191-208 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 255-277 of Ben Hooson’s translation
19 Wednesday 9th May 1962
P209-218 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 278-289 of Ben Hooson’s translation
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan : 1986 : Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/January 1986 or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
20 Wednesday 16th May 1962
P209-218 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 278-289 of Ben Hooson’s translation
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan : 198 6: Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/1 A Lacanian Clinic (Topology) or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
21 Wednesday 23rd May 1962
P228-238 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 302-315 of Ben Hooson’s translation
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan : 1986 : Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
22 Wednesday 30th May 1962
P239-251 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 316-331 of Ben Hooson’s translation
23 : p252 : Wednesday 6th June 1962
P252-271 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 332-354 of Ben Hooson’s translation
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan : 1986 : Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/January 1986 or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
24 Wednesday 13th June 1962
P272-287 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 355-374 of Ben Hooson’s translation
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan : 1986 : Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/1 A Lacanian Clinic (Topology) or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
25 Wednesday 20th June 1962
P288-299 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 375-388 of Ben Hooson’s translation
26 Wednesday 27th June 1962
P300-313 of Cormac Gallagher’s translation,
p 389-406 of Ben Hooson’s translation
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan : 1986 : Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
Citations
Many of these texts are available from www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /authors a-z or /authors by date and this site, www.LacanianWorks.org (LW.org) should be checked for up to date notes. The links for texts on LW.net are given, though the posts have remained frozen since December 2022, when www.LacanianWorks.net was hacked.
Seminar IX : 1961-1962: begins 15th November 1961:
General citations
Speaking through One’s Symptom, Speaking through One’s Body : 7th July 2012 (Lausanne) & 23rd November 2013 (Buenos Aires) : Éric Laurent : See LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z (Laurent) or https://web.archive.org/web/20201029215656/http:/www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12243
Drive and Fantasy : 1994 : Pierre Skriabine : See LW.org/5 Other Authors A-Z (Skriabine) or https://web.archive.org/web/20201029215656/http:/www.lacanianworks.net/?p=298
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org (Lafont) or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
Seminar IX : 6th December 1961
Further information at Session [IV] of Seminar IX – The Identification : 6th December 1961 : Jacques Lacan, this site /4 Jacques Lacan (19611115 Seminar/ 19611206)
1962
Seminar IX : 9th May 1962
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/Lafont or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
Seminar IX : 16th May 1962
The Unconscious and the Body Event : the full interview : July 2015 : Éric Laurent : See LW.org/Laurent or https://web.archive.org/web/20201029215656/http:/www.lacanianworks.net/?p=12023
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/Lafont or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
Seminar IX : 23rd May 1962
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
Seminar IX : 6th June 1962
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/Lafont or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
Seminar IX : 13th June 1962
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/January 1986 or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313
Seminar IX: 27th June 1962
The Ordinary Topology of Jacques Lacan: 1986: Jeanne Lafont : See LW.org/Lafont or https://web.archive.org/web/20220709012522/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=313