Seminars of Jacques Lacan

Hosted by the École Normale Supérieure, under the patronage of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, the Seminar now enjoyed "a much larger audience" and represented a "change of front".

The second lesson, "The Freudian Unconscious and Ours" sets the tone of his ensuing teaching by indicating potential points of discontinuity with respect to Freud's oeuvre.

Lacan's final public delivery on 12 July 1980, sometimes referred to as "The Caracas Seminar"[8] was not, as this title indicates, part of the Parisian series.

[9] In the early seventies, Jacques-Alain Miller offered some indications as to what would constitute an effective editorial strategy and at Lacan's invitation drew up a transcription of the twenty lessons that made up the eleventh seminar, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis delivered in 1964.

The result pleased Lacan, and François Wahl at Éditions du Seuil was happy to publish.

The first to be translated into English was Book XI, published by Hogarth Press in 1977 with a specially written preface.