Several remarks are warranted about the bibliographies of primary and secondary Lacanian literature below. As regards primary sources, only fifteen of Lacan’s twenty-six annual seminars have been published by Jacques-Alain Miller through the Champ freudien series. As of the end of 2012, the following seminars are available in official editions: I, II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, X, XI, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, and XXIII. Of these, only seven have been published as authorized English translations by W.W. Norton and Company: I, II, III, VII, XI, XVII, and XX. The primary sources listed below are the available book-length texts by Lacan. These lists do not include various separate essay-length pieces scattered across numerous places.

As regards secondary sources, I have been highly selective in compiling the list that follows. There are mountains of literature on Lacan in multiple languages. Moreover, these bodies of scholarship cover Lacan’s ideas from a vast array of disciplinary angles. Considering the context of this overview, the secondary sources listed below are, for the most part, books in English with more of a philosophical/theoretical focus.

A. Primary Sources

Work by Lacan in French

• 2001, Autres écrits, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil. Includes:
  • 1938, “Les complexes familiaux dans la formation de l’individu: Essai d’analyse d’une fonction en psychologie”. (Scholar)
  • 1947, “La psychiatrie anglaise et la guerre”.
• 1966, Écrits, Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
• 2011, Je parle aux murs: Entretiens de la chapelle de Sainte-Anne, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
• 2005, Mon enseignement, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
• 2007, Le mythe individuel du névrosé, ou Poésie et verité dans la névrose, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
• 2005, Des noms-du-père, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
• 1932, De la psychose paranoïaque dans ses rapports avec la personnalité, suivi de Premiers écrits sur la paranoïa, Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1975.
• Le Séminaire de Jacques Lacan,
  • Livre I: Les écrits techniques de Freud, 1953–1954, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1975. (Scholar)
  • Livre II: Le moi dans la théorie de Freud et dans la technique de la psychanalyse, 1954–1955, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1978. (Scholar)
  • Livre III: Les psychoses, 1955–1956, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1981. (Scholar)
  • Livre IV: La relation d’objet, 1956–1957, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1994.
  • Livre V: Les formations de l’inconscient, 1957–1958, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998.
  • Livre VI: Le désir et son interprétation, 1958–1959, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, 2013. (Scholar)
  • Livre VII: L’éthique de la psychanalyse, 1959–1960, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1986.
  • Livre VIII: Le transfert, 1960–1961, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2001 (seconde édition corrigée). (Scholar)
  • Livre X: L’angoisse, 1962–1963, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2004.
  • Livre XI: Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse, 1964, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1973. (Scholar)
  • Livre XVI: D’un Autre à l’autre, 1968–1969, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2006. (Scholar)
  • Livre XVII: L’envers de la psychanalyse, 1969–1970, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1991.
  • Livre XVIII: D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant, 1971, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2006.
  • Livre XIX: …ou pire, 1971–1972, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2011. (Scholar)
  • Livre XX: Encore, 1972–1973, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1975. (Scholar)
  • Livre XXIII: Le sinthome, 1975–1976, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2005. (Scholar)
• 1973, Télévision, Paris: Éditions du Seuil.
• 2005, Le triomphe de la religion, précédé de Discours aux catholiques, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Paris: Éditions du Seuil.

Work by Lacan in English Translation

• Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, Bruce Fink (trans.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2006. Includes:
  • 1945, “Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty: A New Sophism”
  • 1946, “Presentation on Psychical Causality”
  • 1948, “Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis”
  • 1949, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”
• Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne, Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose; trans. Jacqueline Rose (ed.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1982.
• My Teaching, David Macey (trans.), London: Verso, 2008.
• On the Names-of-the-Father, Bruce Fink (trans.], Cambridge: Polity, 2013.
• The Seminar of Jacques Lacan,
  • Book I: Freud’s Papers on Technique, 1953–1954, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), John Forrester (trans.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1988. (Scholar)
  • Book II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954–1955, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Sylvana Tomaselli (trans.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1988. (Scholar)
  • Book III: The Psychoses, 1955–1956, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Russell Grigg (trans.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1993. (Scholar)
  • Book IV: The Object Relation, 1956–1957, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), A.R. Price (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2020. (Scholar)
  • Book V: Formations of the Unconscious, 1957–1958, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Russell Grigg (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2016. (Scholar)
  • Book VI: Desire and Its Interpretation, 1958–1959, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Bruce Fink (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2019. (Scholar)
  • Book VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959–1960, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Dennis Porter (trans.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1992. (Scholar)
  • Book XIII: Transference, 1961–1962, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Bruce Fink (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2015. (Scholar)
  • Book X: Anxiety, 1962–1963, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), A.R. Price (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2014. (Scholar)
  • Book XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 1964, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Alan Sheridan (trans.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1977. (Scholar)
  • Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, 1969–1970, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Russell Grigg (trans.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007. (Scholar)
  • Book XIX: ...or Worse, 1971–1972, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), A.R. Price (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2018. (Scholar)
  • Book XX: Encore, 1972–1973, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), Bruce Fink (trans.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1998. (Scholar)
  • Book XXIII: The Sinthome, 1975–1976, Jacques-Alain Miller (ed.), A.R. Price (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2016. (Scholar)
• Talking to Brick Walls: A Series of Presentations in the Chapel at Sainte-Anne Hospital, A.R. Price (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2017.
• Television/A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment, Joan Copjec (ed.), New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1990.
• The Triumph of Religion, preceded by Discourse to Catholics, Bruce Fink (trans.), Cambridge: Polity, 2013.

Primary Literature by Others

• Freud, S., 1966, Project for a Scientific Psychology, in Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (Volume 1), James Strachey, Anna Freud, Alix Strachey, and Alan Tyson (ed. and trans.), London: The Hogarth Press, pp. 281–397. (Scholar)
• Freud, S., 1958, Totem and Taboo, in Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (Volume XIII), James Strachey, Anna Freud, Alix Strachey, and Alan Tyson (ed. and trans.), London: The Hogarth Press, pp. ix-162. (Scholar)
• Freud, S., 1955, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, in Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (Volume XVIII), James Strachey, Anna Freud, Alix Strachey, and Alan Tyson (ed. and trans.), London: The Hogarth Press, pp. 1–64. (Scholar)
• Hegel, G.W.F., 1977, Phenomenology of Spirit, A.V. Miller (trans.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kojève, A., 1969, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, Allan Bloom (ed.), James H. Nichols, Jr. (trans.), Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (Scholar)
• Lévi-Strauss, C., 1969, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, J.H. Bell and J.R. von Sturmer (trans.), Boston: Beacon Press. (Scholar)

B. Secondary Literature on Lacan in English

• Ansermet, François and Pierre Magistretti, 2007, Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious, Susan Fairfield (trans.), New York: Other Press. (Scholar)
• Barnard, Suzanne and Bruce Fink (eds.), 2002, Reading Seminar XX: Lacan’s Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Boothby, Richard, 1991, Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan’s Return to Freud, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Braunstein, Néstor A., 2021, Jouissance: A Lacanian Concept, Silvia Rosman (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, 1991, Lacan: The Absolute Master, Douglas Brick (trans.), Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Butler, Judith, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek, 2000, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, London: Verso. (Scholar)
• Cassin, Barbara, 2019, Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis, Michael Syrotinski (trans.), New York: Fordham University Press. (Scholar)
• Chiesa, Lorenzo, 2016, The Not-Two: Logic and God in Lacan, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Clemens, Justin and Russell Grigg (eds.), 2006, Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII, Durham: Duke University Press. (Scholar)
• Copjec, Joan, 1994, Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Cutrofello, Andrew, 1997, Imagining Otherwise: Metapsychology and the Analytic A Posteriori, Evanston: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• De Kesel, Marc, 2009, Eros and Ethics: Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII, Sigi Jottkandt (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press (Scholar)
• De Waelhens, Alphonse and Wilfried Ver Eecke, 2001, Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, After the Decade of the Brain, Leuven: Leuven University Press. (Scholar)
• Dolar, Mladen, 2006, A Voice and Nothing More, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Dor, Joël, 1998, Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured Like a Language, Judith Feher Gurewich (ed.), Susan Fairfield (trans.), New York: Other Press. (Scholar)
• Evans, Dylan, 1996, An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Eyers, Tom, 2012, Lacan and the Concept of the “Real”, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Fink, Bruce, 1995, The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997. A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, Lacan on Love: An Exploration of Lacan’s Seminar VIII, Transference, Cambridge: Polity. (Scholar)
• Feldstein, Richard, Bruce Fink, and Maire Jaanus (eds.), 1995, Reading Seminar XI: Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (eds.), 1996, Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan’s Return to Freud, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Forrester, John, 1990, The Seductions of Psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan, and Derrida, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Grosz, Elizabeth, 1990, Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Homer, Sean, 2005, Jacques Lacan, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Johnston, Adrian, 2005, Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive, Evanston: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity, Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
• –––, 2009, Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change, Evanston: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, Adventures in Transcendental Materialism: Dialogues with Contemporary Thinkers, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism: Volume One, The Outcome of Contemporary French Philosophy, Evanston: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, Irrepressible Truth: On Lacan’s ‘The Freudian Thing’, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Johnston, Adrian and Catherine Malabou, 2013, Self and Emotional Life: Merging Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neurobiology, New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Julien, Philippe, 1994, Jacques Lacan’s Return to Freud: The Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary, Devra Beck Simiu (trans.), New York: New York University Press. (Scholar)
• Lemaire, Anika, 1977, Jacques Lacan, David Macey (trans.), New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Marini, Marcelle, 1992, Jacques Lacan: The French Context, Anne Tomiche (trans.), New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (Scholar)
• Milner, Jean-Claude, 2020, A Search for Clarity: Science and Philosophy in Lacan’s Oeuvre, Ed Pluth (trans.), Evanston: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• Nancy, Jean-Luc and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, 1992, The Title of the Letter: A Reading of Lacan, François Raffoul and David Pettigrew (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Nasio, Juan-David, 1998, Five Lessons on the Psychoanalytic Theory of Jacques Lacan, David Pettigrew and François Raffoul (trans.), Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Nobus, Dany, 2000, Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1998, Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis, New York: Other Press. (Scholar)
• Pluth, Ed, 2007, Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject, Albany: State University of New York Press. (Scholar)
• Rabaté, Jean-Michel (ed.), 2003, The Cambridge Companion to Lacan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Roudinesco, Elisabeth, 1990, Jacques Lacan & Co.: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925–1985, Jeffrey Mehlman (trans.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997, Jacques Lacan: Outline of a Life, History of a System of Thought, Barbara Bray (trans.), New York: Columbia University Press. (Scholar)
• Salecl, Renata (ed.), 2000, Sexuation, Durham: Duke University Press. (Scholar)
• Soler, Colette, 2006, What Lacan Said About Women: A Psychoanalytic Study, John Holland (trans.), New York: Other Press. (Scholar)
• Stavrakakis, Yannis, 1999, Lacan and the Political, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, The Lacanian Left: Psychoanalysis, Theory, Politics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
• Turkle, Sherry, 1981, Psychoanalytic Politics: Freud’s French Revolution, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Philippe Van Haute, 2002, Against Adaptation: Lacan’s “Subversion” of the Subject, a Close Reading, Paul Crowe and Miranda Vankerk (trans.), New York: Other Press. (Scholar)
• Paul Verhaeghe, 1997, Does the Woman Exist?: From Freud’s Hysteric to Lacan’s Feminine, Marc du Ry (trans.), New York: Other Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Beyond Gender: From Subject to Drive, New York: Other Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, On Being Normal and Other Disorders: A Manual for Clinical Psychodiagnostics, Sigi Jottkandt (trans.), New York: Other Press. (Scholar)
• Žižek, Slavoj, 1991, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan Through Popular Culture, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2001, Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, New York: Routledge, second edition. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, How to Read Lacan, London: Granta Publications. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1992, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan… But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, London: Verso. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1998, Cogito and the Unconscious, Durham: Duke University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2006, Lacan: The Silent Partners, London: Verso. (Scholar)
• Žižek, Slavoj and Renata Salecl (eds.), 1996, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects, Durham: Duke University Press. (Scholar)
• Zupančič, Alenka, 2000, Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan, London: Verso. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, The Odd One In: On Comedy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)