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It is also known that Lacan later distanced himself somewhat from psychiatry; in February 1969, for example, he criticised the community’s tendency to ‘segregate^] its discordant members’ in ‘ “asylum-like” places’ (Lacan, 2015, p. 16).#
# Lacan, J. (2015) On a reform in its hole’, S: Journal of the Circlefor Lacanian Ideology Critique. Translated by J. Holland, (8), pp. 14-21
Nevertheless, he also maintained contact with psychiatric institutions throughout his life; one index of this is his participation in ‘case presentations’, a practice in which a psychiatrist interviews a psychotic patient before an audience of students. In 1955-1956, during his seminar on the psychoses, he refers extensively to the presentations that he had been conducting, drawing out what could be learned from them concerning psychotic symptoms, such as neologisms, and the effects of foreclosure (Lacan, 1993b, pp. 31-3, 47-56, 59-60, 306-7). Twenty years later, he also gave a series of case presentations at the Hôpital Henri Rousselle, under the auspices of Marcel Czermak, who held an adjunct position there (Roudinesco, 1990, p. 696). Transcriptions of nine of them are available in French in electronic form (Valas, n.d.); at least two have been translated into English (Lacan, 1993a, 1998).
Lacanian Psychoanalysis: A Clinical Casebook, by Danièle Brillaud, Translated by John Hollan, Routledge, 2020, Translator’s preface, pp. ix-x
