This page first appeared in Turkish. The English version is my own. The Turkish column is kept for readers interested in Lacan’s reception in Turkish.
I
Lacan’s seminar began in the autumn of 1953 at the Sainte-Anne hospital and ended in 1980 with the dissolution of the École freudienne de Paris. The seminars are published in Paris by Seuil, in the series Le Champ freudien, in texts established by Jacques-Alain Miller; since 2023 a new volume has appeared at the start of each year. How the text of the seminars was established, and its relation to the stenography and the parallel transcriptions, is discussed in detail in the essay “The Established Text” on this site; the history of the Turkish translations in the essay “Lacan in Turkish”.1
| No. | Year | French title | French book | English translation | Turkish translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 1953–1954 | Les écrits techniques de Freud | Seuil, 1975 | J. Forrester, 1988 | C. Özcan, Encore, 2024a |
| II | 1954–1955 | Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse | Seuil, 1978 | S. Tomaselli, 1988 | S. Kılıç, Metis, 2022 |
| III | 1955–1956 | Les psychoses | Seuil, 1981 | R. Grigg, 1993 | — |
| IV | 1956–1957 | La relation d’objet | Seuil, 1994 | A. R. Price, Polity, 2020 | — |
| V | 1957–1958 | Les formations de l’inconscient | Seuil, 1998 | R. Grigg, Polity, 2017 | — |
| VI | 1958–1959 | Le désir et son interprétation | La Martinière, 2013 | B. Fink, Polity, 2019 | — |
| VII | 1959–1960 | L’éthique de la psychanalyse | Seuil, 1986 | D. Porter, 1992 | — |
| VIII | 1960–1961 | Le transfert | Seuil, 1991; 2nd ed. 2001 | B. Fink, Polity, 2015 | — |
| IX | 1961–1962 | L’identification | Unpublished | — | — |
| X | 1962–1963 | L’angoisse | Seuil, 2004 | A. R. Price, Polity, 2014 | — |
| — | 1963 | Les Noms-du-Père (single lesson) | Seuil, 2005b | — | M. Erşen, MonoKL, 2014 |
| XI | 1964 | Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse | Seuil, 1973 | A. Sheridan, 1977 | N. Erdem, Metis, 2013 |
| XII | 1964–1965 | Problèmes cruciaux pour la psychanalyse | Seuil, 2025 | — | — |
| XIII | 1965–1966 | L’objet de la psychanalyse | Seuil, 2026 | — | — |
| XIV | 1966–1967 | La logique du fantasme | Seuil, 2023 | A. R. Price, Polity, 2026 | — |
| XV | 1967–1968 | L’acte psychanalytique | Seuil, 2024 | A. R. Price, Polity, announced | — |
| XVI | 1968–1969 | D’un Autre à l’autre | Seuil, 2006 | B. Fink, Polity, 2023 | — |
| XVII | 1969–1970 | L’envers de la psychanalyse | Seuil, 1991 | R. Grigg, Norton, 2007 | — |
| XVIII | 1971 | D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant | Seuil, 2006 | B. Fink, Polity, 2025 | — |
| XIX | 1971–1972 | ...ou pire | Seuil, 2011 | A. R. Price, Polity, 2018 | — |
| XX | 1972–1973 | Encore | Seuil, 1975 | B. Fink, Norton, 1998 | M. Erşen, Metis, 2019 |
| XXI | 1973–1974 | Les non-dupes errent | Unpublished | — | — |
| XXII | 1974–1975 | R.S.I. | Only in Ornicar?, 2–5 | — | — |
| XXIII | 1975–1976 | Le sinthome | Seuil, 2005 | A. R. Price, Polity, 2016 | — |
| XXIV | 1976–1977 | L’insu que sait de l’une-bévue s’aile à mourre | Only in Ornicar?, 12–18 | — | — |
| XXV | 1977–1978 | Le moment de conclure | Unpublished | — | — |
| XXVI | 1978–1979 | La topologie et le temps | Unpublished | — | — |
| XXVII | 1980 | Dissolution | Only in Ornicar?, 20–23 | — | — |
a Reported in bibliographic records; not confirmed in the publisher’s catalogue. b The book Des Noms-du-Père contains the single lesson of 20 November 1963 and the 1953 lecture “Le symbolique, l’imaginaire et le réel”. The early English volumes for which no publisher is given were published by W. W. Norton (United States) and by Cambridge University Press, Routledge or the Hogarth Press (United Kingdom).
II
The table shows several things at a glance. First, twenty of the twenty-seven seminars have been published as books in French; three exist only in the pages of the journal Ornicar?, in the form Miller established; four, the ninth, twenty-first, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth, have not been published in any official form. For these the researcher must rely on transcriptions based on the stenography.
Second, English translation lags behind French publication, but at an accelerating pace. Since 2014 Polity Press has published a series of volumes, most of them translated by A. R. Price, Bruce Fink and Russell Grigg. Of the twenty seminars available as books in French, seventeen can now be read in English; the translation of the fifteenth has been announced. The twelfth and thirteenth seminars, following their French publication in 2025 and 2026, have not yet been translated into English.
Third, only four seminars have been translated into Turkish as books: the first, second, eleventh and twentieth. For a reader of Lacan in Turkish these four volumes cover the first years of the teaching and a cross-section of its late period; but none of the seminars of the great theoretical years between 1956 and 1963, those of the graph of desire, the Name-of-the-Father, transference and anxiety, is yet available in Turkish.
The table will be updated on this site as new translations and editions appear. Readers who think a detail is wrong or missing are warmly invited to write, with their source, to psikologhaktantay@gmail.com; this is the greatest contribution to the table’s accuracy.
Notes
- The French and English publication details have been checked against the records of the publishers and translators, publication announcements and reviews. The Turkish details are based on the catalogue of Metis Yayınları and on the bibliography compiled by Lacancı Psikanaliz Çalışmaları. A contact address for corrections and additions is given at the end of the page. ↩︎