This lecture took place on the 9th May 1957 in the Descartes Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne, at the request of the philosophy group of the Fédération des étudiants ès Lettres. The lecture was written up 14th-16th May 1957 and published in volume titled ‘Psychoanalysis and the Sciences of Man’, then in Écrits : 1966.
Translated into English
1) Translated by Jan Miel : as The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious : Yale French Studies, Vol 36/37, 1966 ,p112-147 : Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan
Reprinted in Jacques Ehrmann (ed) : Structuralism : 1970 : NY Anchor Books : p101-137 : Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /lacan
2) Published in Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan : Information at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (1966) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan
– Translated by Alan Sheridan as ‘The agency of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud’ : p146-176 of Jacques Lacan, Écrits – a selection, Tavistock, 1977. Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan
– Translated by Bruce Fink as ‘The instance of the letter in the unconscious or reason since Freud’ in Écrits, Jacques Lacan, The first complete edition in English : W.W. Norton & Co : 2002 : p412-444
Published in French:
a) La Psychanalyse III : 1957 p47-81, See this site /by date May 1957) or www.Freud2Lacan.com /Lacan (15. La Psychanalyse, Vol. 3 (1957) Re: L’instance de la lettre dans l’inconscient…)
b) Écrits : 1966 : Information at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (1966) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan
c) Pas Tout Lacan :
Published at École Lacanienne de la Psychanalyse – Pas Tout Lacan [ https://ecole-lacanienne.net/en/bibliolacan/pas-tout-lacan-2/] : available, in French, https://ecole-lacanienne.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1957-05-09.pdf
Commentaries:
– Translator’s note, Bibliography Note : 1977 : Alan Sheridan & Classified index of the major concepts, Commentary on the graphs : 1966 : Jacques-Alain Miller : from ‘Écrits: a selection’. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan (May 1957) or /Other Authors A-Z (Sheridan)
– A Reader’s Guide to Écrits: 1982: John P. Muller and William J. Richardson : See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Muller or Richardson) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan or /5 Other Authors A-Z
– A Reader’s Guide to Écrits -Chapter 5, The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud : Available at www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan
Further information :
Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan : Information at this site /4 Jacques Lacan (1966) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan
References
Presented at the panel on Technical Implications of Ego Psychology at the midwinter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York , December 1948. Published in Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol 20: 1951
Information – See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Kris) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z (Kris)
Citations:
Towards the 11th Clinical Study-Days: Conference “The Ego Of The Obsessional” : 22nd October 2017 (New York) : Gil Caroz. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Caroz) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z
A preliminary engagement with Dany Nobus’s ‘Psychoanalytic Violence: An Essay in Indifference in Ethical Matters’ : 30th July 2017 : Julia Evans (Includes references to Wo es war, …) See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Evans) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors A-Z
Presentation of Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI (2nd part) : 26th May 2013 : Jacques-Alain Miller . See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z
The Purloined Letter and the Tao of the Psychoanalyst : 10th March 1999 (Paris) : Éric Laurent. See this site /Other Authors A-Z (Laurent) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent
KNOT The Theory of the Knot Outlined by Jacques Lacan : July 1996 : Jean Michel Vappereau. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Vappereau) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors A-Z
Interpretation and Truth : 1st July 1994 : Éric Laurent. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Laurent
Lacan’s Seminar on “The Purloined Letter” – Overview : 1988 : John P. Muller and William J. Richardson. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Muller or Richardson) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z [or here]
Lacan’s Seminar on “The Purloined Letter” – Notes to the Text : 1988 : John P. Muller and William J. Richardson. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Muller or Richardson) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z
A Reader’s Guide to Écrits : 1982 : John P. Muller and William J. Richardson. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Muller or Richardson) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z
Translator’s note, Bibliography Note : 1977 : Alan Sheridan & Classified index of the major concepts – Commentary on the graphs : 1966 : Jacques-Alain Miller : from ‘Écrits: a selection’. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Sheridan) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z
Lacan and the Discourse of the Other : 1968 : Anthony Wilden. See this site /5 Other Authors A-Z (Wilden) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Other Authors A-Z
Écrits : 1966 : Jacques Lacan. See this site /4 Jacques Lacan or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Lacan (1966)
The Purloined Letter : 1844 : Edgar Alan Poe. See this site /texts by Date (1988) – The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading : 1988 : John P. Muller and William J. Richardson (Editors & Authors) or www.LacanianWorksExchange.net /Authors A-Z (Poe)