Jacques Lacan’s Autres Écrits, compiled by Jacques Alain Miller for Lacan’s centennial, remains untranslated as a complete volume in English, though many individual pieces are available. This book begins a series offering a thorough
commentary on the collection.

This first volume in the series covers the first two sections of the collection. Section I consists of two very different pieces, each of which, in rather different ways, serves as an introduction to the Autres Écrits. First, we have
Jacques Alain Miller’s prologue, which provides something of a context for the collection as a whole, while also constituting a curious post-Lacanian artefact in its own right. This is followed by ‘Lituraterre’, a later piece by Lacan
that considers the function of writing and literary creation, thus providing something of a conceptual framework to the collection qua collection of written works. Section II consists of early Lacanian texts, and the commentaries here provide a fascinating and important insight into Lacan’s thinking from the 1930s and 1940s, allowing us to position these early writings in the broader context of Lacan’s oeuvre.

This commentary provides invaluable support for Anglophone readers of Lacan, including psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, historians of ideas, and anyone curious to access some of Lacan’s less well-known texts in English.

Calum Neill is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Continental Philosophy at Edinburgh Napier University, Director of Lacan in Scotland and runs a private practice in Edinburgh. He is the author of Jacques Lacan: The Basics (2023) (which is available in English, Greek, Korean, Spanish, and Turkish), Psychology and Ethics: Beyond Codes of Practice (2016), and Without Ground: Lacanian Ethics and the Assumption of Subjectivity (2014). He co-edited the Palgrave Lacan Series with Derek Hook, and the book series Reading Lacan’s Écrits and Reading Lacan’s Autres Écrits with Derek Hook and Stijn Vanheule.

Derek Hook is Professor of Psychology and a clinical supervisor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and Extraordinary Professor of Psychology at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He is the author of Six Moments in Lacan (2016), and Fanon, Psychoanalysis and Decolonial Psychology (2025). He co-edited the Palgrave Lacan Series with Calum Neill,and the book series Reading Lacan’s Écrits and Reading Lacan’s Autres Écrits with Calum Neill and Stijn Vanheule.

Stijn Vanheule is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. He is a privately practicing psychoanalyst and member of the New Lacanian School for Psychoanalysis. He is the author of The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective (2011), Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: From DSM to Clinical Case Formulation (2017); and Why Psychosis is Not So Crazy (2024). He co-edited the book series Reading Lacan’s Écrits and Reading Lacan’s Autres Écrits with Calum Neill and Derek Hook.