Jacques Lacan describes this as ‘my seminar of the 15th January’.

The text of this seminar appeared in Le Monde of 26th January 1980, preceded by a letter dated 24th January 1980.

Translation note :

L’Autre manque may also be translated as ‘The Other lacks’ which seems to me to be a better translation. The other option would be The missing Other’

English translation :

Translated by Jeffrey Mehlman : Published

1) October : Vol 40 : 1987 : p131-133 ;

Available at 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) : p133-135 : See this site LW.org or https://web.archive.org/web/20220814162815/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 : p11-12

Related texts :

NOTE First search this site, LW.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 Misapprehension : Paris, 10th June 1980 : Jacques Lacan

Further texts

NOTE First search this site LW.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 texts by Jacques Lacan as at December 2022.

Dossier on the Institutional Debate, An Introduction : 1990 : Joan Copjec : See LW.org or https://web.archive.org/web/20220814162815/https://lacanianworks.net/?p=12020