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 read Lacan’s earliest papers on ego, mirror, the family complex and neurotic myth, along with selections from seminars in the first six years of Lacan’s teaching, especially his reading of Little Hans, and the seminars leading to the development of the Graph of Desire.