Olga Cox Cameron's first career was in literary studies, having written an MA thesis on Proust, worked as a tutor in the Department of French at University College, Dublin, and started - but not completed - a PhD on Beckett at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Following a decade of working with homeless people in Dublin, she trained as a psychoanalyst at St. Vincent's University Hospital and has been in private practice for the past 32 years. She lectured in Psychoanalytic Theory and in Psychoanalysis and Literature at St. Vincent's University Hospital and Trinity College from 1991 to 2013 and has published numerous articles on these topics in national and international journals. She is the founder of the annual Irish Psychoanalytic Film Festival, now in its 12th year.

Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and Lacanian scholar in Dublin. She is the founder of the Dublin Lacan study group. She has published widely on the theory and practice of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Her most recent book is Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch with Stephanie Swales. She is series editor for Studying Lacan's Seminars published by Routledge. The first volume in the series Studying Lacan's Seminars IV and V: From Lack to Desire was published in 2019.

Acknowledgements

About the authors

Preface

Editor's note

PART I

The chapters

1. Introduction to the seminar

2. "He did not know that he was dead"

3. A master class in dream interpretation

4. Nine lessons on Hamlet

5. The dialectics of desire

6. Conclusion

PART II

The lectures

1. Lecture I: 17 December 2016

2. Lecture II: 21 February 2017

3. Lecture IV: 24 June 2017

PART III

The essays

I Seminar VI: Anamorphosis or Palimpsest?

II The phallus of the fifties

Index