Bulgata or Vulgata is the Latin translation of the Holy Scriptures made at the end of the 4th century AD by Jerome at the command of Pope Damasus I and adopted by the Roman Catholic Church (its international abbreviation is "Vg").

With the same goal, that is, a kind of "popularization" of Lacanian thought in order to make it more accessible and understandable, the author of this work offers the reader a vulgata editio (a "common" edition or for the "non-specialized public"). However, the "Vulgata" is not a summary text-guide for a quick overview of Jacques Lacan's thought. It is an associative deposition and an attempt to offer the reader something from the establishment of the session, which ultimately is very close to poetic discourse.

Lacan found the truth of speech in every utterance, whether pathological, philosophical, or mainly Freudian. He read Freud and his bibliographic references, like Plotinus to Plato, with the faith of discipleship. So his endeavor is not so revolutionary. It is rooted in the history of philosophy. It's just that behind every philosophy, there is a religion, and behind every religion, there is a practice of its secrets.

From this perspective, free association is a way to seek both the root and the formation of language and thought in an interpretive parallel. The psychoanalyst, for the Lacanians, is the rag in the whole process.

And, as Leucius Basilios points out in his introduction: "Meteoric fragments of a thought that in the unfolding of the seminars became once recognizable residues even as paradoxes with its baroque language. We do not claim from the psychoanalysts the rendering of the text, on the contrary, we turn to their readers who will want to become competent. An open work that brings news from the most extreme borders of speech. That is, at the borders with poetic expression."