Reading Seminar XI: Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

by Richard Feldstein (Editor), Maire Jaanus (Series Editor), Bruce Fink (Series Editor)

Seminar XI, which you are studying this year, was the first of Lacan’s
seminars I participated in and the first I edited. Lacan arrived on the fifteenth of January 1964, at the Ecole normale superieure, in what was called
the Salle Dussane, the theater of the Ecole normale named after a famous
French actress of the Comedie franc:aise, and said “Ladies and gentlemen,
in this series of lectures, which I have been invited to give by the Ecole  Pratique des Hautes Etudes, I shall be talking to you about the fundamentals of psychoanalysis