Many become familiar with the work of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan through a few of his major papers collected in the volume titled “Écrits”, or, through his system as disseminated by thinkers in diverse fields such as Shoshana Felman, Judith Butler, Slavoj Zizek, and Alain Badiou, to name only a few. In this course, we will study the transcripts of Lacan’s seminars, stretched over 28 years of teaching. From his reading of key works by Freud, to his interpretation of Schreber’s Memoir of My Nervous Illness, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Sophocles’ Antigone, Plato’s The Symposium, and Joyce’s Ulysses, we will touch on the question of the unconscious, language, anxiety, symptoms, trauma, and desire.