Previous Salons
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan | Book XVIII | On a discourse that might not be a semblance
Translated by Cormac Gallagher
1971
The English translation of Seminar XVIII: http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Book-18-On-a-discourse-that-might-not-be-a-semblance.pdf
The French version of Seminar XVIII: http://staferla.free.fr/S18/S18%20D'UN%20DISCOURS...pdf
SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS
2022/2023
September 13 ONLINE session
Seminar 1 - Jan. 13, 1971 (pgs. 2-17)
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
September 27
Seminar 2 - Jan. 20, 1971 (pgs. 18-35)
Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni
October 11
Seminar 3 - Feb. 10, 1971 (pgs. 36-53)
Facilitator: Pascal Christeller
October 25
Seminar 4 - Feb. 17, 1971 (pgs. 54-75)
Facilitator: Group discussion
November 8
Seminar 5 - Mar. 10, 1971 (pgs. 76-95)
Facilitator: Desiree Jung
November 22
Seminar 6 - Mar. 17, 1971 (pgs. 96-114)
Facilitator: Sanem Guvenc
December 6 ONLINE session
Seminar 7 - May 12, 1971 (pgs. 115-134)
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
January 10 ONLINE session
Lacan's Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter' from Ecrits (p. 6-48)
Facilitator: Sergio Aguilar
January 24
Seminar 8 - May 19, 1971 (pgs. 135-153)
Facilitator: Group discussion
February 7
Seminar 9 - June 9, 1971 (pgs. 154-174)
Facilitator: Group discussion
February 21 ONLINE session
Seminar 10 - June 16, 1971 (pgs. 175-193)
Facilitator: Carlos Gomez Camarena
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The Seminar of Jacques Lacan | Book IV | The Object Relation
Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller
Translated by A. R. Price
Wiley, 2021
The French version of Seminar IV: http://staferla.free.fr/S4/S4.htm
SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND READINGS
FALL 2021
September 7 Reading: PART ONE - Theorizing the Lack of Object
Chapter I “Introduction” (21 Nov. 1956), pgs 3-17
Facilitator:
September 21
Reading: Chapter II “The Three Forms of the Lack of Object” (28 Nov. 1956), pgs. 18-32
Facilitator:
October 5
Reading: Chapter III “The Signifier and the Holy Spirit” (5 Dec. 1956), pgs. 33-50
Facilitator:
October 19
Reading: Chapter IV “The Dialectic of Frustration” (12 Dec. 1956), pgs. 51-67
Facilitator:
November 2
Reading: Chapter V “On Analysis as Bundling and the Consequences Thereof” (19 Dec. 1956), pgs. 68-84
Facilitator:
November 16: Salon Online
Online discussion with Richard C. Ledes director of "Adieu Lacan"
(Zoom link and the movie link sent to registrants 24 hours before online Salon)
November 30 Reading: PART TWO - The Perverse Ways of Desire
Chapter VI “The Primacy of the Phallus and the Young Homosexual Woman” (9 Jan. 1957), pgs. 87-102
AND Chapter VII “A Child is being Beaten and the Young Homosexual Woman” (16 Jan. 1957), pgs. 103-122
Facilitator:
December 14 Reading: PART THREE - The Fetish Object
Chapter VIII “Dora and the Young Homosexual Woman” (23 Jan. 1957), pgs. 123-139
AND Chapter IX “The Function of the Veil” (30 Jan. 1957), pgs. 143-156
Facilitator:
January 4 ONLINE session
Reading: Chapter X “Identification with the Phallus” (6 Feb. 1957), pgs. 157-170
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
January 18 ONLINE session
Reading: Chapter XI “The Phallus and the Unfulfilled Mother” (27 Feb. 1957), pgs. 171-188
Facilitator: Pascal Christeller
February 1 Reading: PART FOUR - Mythical Structure in the Observation on Little Hans’ Phobia
Chapter XII “On the Oedipus Complex” (6 Mar. 1957), pgs. 191-206
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
February 15
Reading: Chapter XIII “On the Castration Complex” (13 Mar. 1957), pgs. 207-223
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
March 1
Reading: Chapter XIV “The Signifier in the Real” (20 Mar. 1957), pgs. 224-240
AND Chapter XV (27 Mar. 1957), pgs. 241-260
Facilitator: Desiree Jung
March 15
Reading: Chapter XVI “How Myth is Analysed” (3 Apr. 1957), pgs. 261-277
Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukwa
March 29
Reading: Chapter XVII “The Signifier and Der Witz” (10 Apr. 1957), pgs. 278-294
Facilitator: Juan Luis de la Mora
April 12
Reading: Chapter XVIII “Circuits” (8 May 1957), pgs. 295-309
Facilitator: Alois Sieben
April 26 ONLINE Session
Reading: Chapter XIX “Permutations” (15 May 1957), pgs. 310-326
Facilitator: Ziwei Yan
May 10 ONLINE Session
Reading: Chapter XX “Transformations” (22 May 1957), pgs. 327-343
Facilitator: Eugenie Austin
May 24 ONLINE Session
Reading: Chapter XXI “The Mother’s Drawers and the Father’s Shortcoming” (5 June 1957), pgs. 344-361
Facilitator: Alois Sieben
and Chapter XXII, “An Essay in Rubber-Sheet Logic” (19 June 1957), pgs. 362-379
Facilitator: Group discussion
June 7 ONLINE Session
Reading: Chapter XXIII “Me donnera sans femme une progeniture” (26 June 1957), pgs. 380-400
and FAREWELL - Chapter XXIV “From Hans-the-Fetish to Leonardo-in-the-Mirror” (3 July 1957) pgs. 403-426
Facilitators: Alessandra Capperdoni and Paul Kingsbury
Farewell
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The link to Gallagher's English translation: http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Seminar-IX-Amended-Iby-MCL-7.NOV_.20111.pdf
The French version of Seminar IX: http://staferla.free.fr/S9/S9.htm
Lacan Salon, 2020-2021 Schedule
Text: Seminar IX: Identification (1961-1962)
As we begin the Salon in the fall of 2020, we will be maintaining our virtual, zoom-enabled practice for the time being, due to restrictions on gatherings in British Columbia and Simon Fraser University guidelines. Thank you for your patience for those of you missing the in-person sessions (as most of us are!) and welcome, also, to our visitors from outside Vancouver who have joined us since March. The internationalization of the Salon is a real pleasure. Readings for this Seminar are available at lacaninireland.com, Cormac Gallagher’s essential resource.
September 8
Lesson 1: Wednesday 15 November 1961 (pgs. 2-10)
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
September 22
Lesson 2: Wednesday 22 November 1961 (pgs. 11-18)
Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni
October 6 (double)
Lesson 3: Wednesday 29 November 1961 (pgs. 19-27)
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
Lesson 4: Wednesday 6 December 1961 (pgs. 28-37)
Facilitator: Rawia Inaim
October 20
Lesson 5: Wednesday 13 December 1961 (pgs. 38-45)
Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury
November 3
Lesson 6: Wednesday 20 December 1961 (pgs. 46-57)
Facilitator: Group discussion
November 17
Lesson 7: Wednesday 10 January 1962 (pgs. 58-70)
Facilitator: Sanem Guvenc
December 1 (double)
Lesson 8: Wednesday 17 January 1962 (pgs. 71-82)
Facilitator: Rosemary Overell
Lesson 9: Wednesday 24 January 1962 (pgs. 83-92)
Facilitator: Ziwei Yan
December 15
Lesson 10: Wednesday 21 February 1962 (pgs. 93-101)
Facilitator: Alma Krilic
January 5
Lesson 11: Wednesday 28 February 1962 (pgs. 102-111)
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
January 19
Lesson 12: Wednesday 7 March 1962 (pgs. 112-125)
Facilitator: Eugenie Austin
February 2 (double)
Lesson 13: Wednesday 14 March 1962 (pgs. 126-136)
Facilitator: Carlos Gomez Camarena
Lesson 14: Wednesday 21 March 1962 (pgs.137-147)
Facilitator: Ziwei Yan
February 16
Lesson 15: Wednesday 28 March 1962 (pgs. 148-158)
Facilitator: Sanem Guvenc
March 2
Lesson 16: Wednesday 4 April 1962 (pgs. 159-167)
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
March 16 (double)
Lesson 17: Wednesday 11 April 1962 (pgs. 168-190)
Facilitator: Rosemary Overell
Lesson 18: Wednesday 2 May 1962 (pgs. 191-208)
Facilitator: Alois Sieben
March 30
Lesson 19: Wednesday 9 May 1962 (pgs. 209-218)
Facilitator: Gregory Duby
April 13
Lesson 20: Wednesday 16 May 1962 (pgs. 219-227)
Facilitator: Desiree Jung
April 27 (double)
Lesson 21: Wednesday 23 May 1962 (pgs. 228-238)
Facilitator: Kyler R.
Lesson 22: Wednesday 30 May 1962 (pgs. 239-251)
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
May 11
Lesson 23: Wednesday 6 June 1962 (pgs. 252-271)
Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni
May 25
Lesson 24: Wednesday 13 June 1962 (pgs. 272-287)
Facilitator: Alma Krilic
June 8
Lesson 25: Wednesday 20 June 1962 (pgs. 288-299)
Facilitator: Group discussion
June 22 (final Salon until fall 2021)
Lesson 26: Wednesday 27 June 1962 (pgs. 300-313)
Facilitator: Rosemary Overell
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Resources for Seminar IX
Lorenzo Chiesa: “Count-as-one, Forming-into-one, Unary Trait, S1”
https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/29/58
Ed Pluth, “Lacan’s Subversion of the Subject” Continental Philosophy Review, 2006
Friedman Michael Friedman "Torus and Identification: The Beginning of Lacanian mathematics" in Psychoanalysis Topological Perspectives, Transcript 2016 (Tomsic and Freidman Eds.) (See also Friedman’s footnote, where he mentions, besides Chiesa & Pluth: Granon-Lafont 1985; 1990; Darmon 1990; Moncayo 2012)
Friedman: “On Repetition and the Limits of Formalization”
On topology (from Sanem in summer 2020): tba
Ellie Ragland & Dragan Milanovic's 2004 edited book, "Lacan, Topologically Speaking" available on libgen.
Jeanne Lafont's "Ordinary topology of Jacques Lacan"
Michael Friedman and Samo Tomsic's 2016 edited book, "Psychoanalysis: Topological Perspectives".
Paul Kingbury's 2007 article on extimacy (in Social and Cultural Geography)
Will Greenshield's "Writing the Structures of the Subject"
LACAN SALON SCHEDULE: FALL-SPRING 2019-2020
THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN: BOOK XIX
1971-1972
…or worse (…ou pire)
…or worse, text established by Jacques-Alain Miller, was recently translated by A. R. Price and published by Wiley: https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/+or+Worse:+The+Seminar+of+Jacques+Lacan,+Book+XIX-p-9780745682440
For the purpose of this Salon, the text can be read in Price’s translation of the Miller edition, which is authoritatively edited from the stenographic transcripts, or in the translation by Cormac Gallagher, which is a direct translation of the stenographic and audio record, found at Lacan in Ireland: http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Book-19-Ou-pire-Or-worse.pdf
The French edition, Le séminaire de Jacques Lacan, texte établie par Jacques-Alain Miller, is published by Editions de Seuil: http://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/le-seminaire-livre-xix-jacques-lacan/9782020971652
A very useful edition of the stenographic record can be found here: http://staferla.free.fr/S19/S19.htm
The titles in the schedule below come from the Miller edition. The titles are followed by the dates of the seminar, which are used as titles in the Gallagher translation.
Lacan also presented, the same year, a series of talks at Saint Anne hospital. These are known as “The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst”. The first three of these were published as a book by Polity: Talking to Brick Walls. The final four are included in Miller’s edition of Seminar 19. All seven talks, or interviews, an be found at Lacan In Ireland, where they are titled Seminar XIXa: http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Book-19a-The-Knowledge-of-the-Psychoanalyst-1971-1972.pdf
1. OF ONE SEX AND THE OTHER
September 10
Seminar XIXa, Gallagher translation / 4 November 1971
The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, part 1
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
September 24
Seminar XIXa, Gallagher translation
The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, part 2 / 2 December 1971
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
October 8
Seminar XIX
I. The small difference / 8 December 1971
Faciltator: Paul Kingsbury
October 22
II. The function x / 15 December 1971
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
November 5
Seminar XIXa, Gallagher translation
The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, part 3 / 6 January 1972
Facilitator: Alexis Tia Wolfe
November 19
Seminar XIX
III. From anecdote to logic / 12 January 1972
Facilitator: Ed Graham
December 3
IV. From necessity to inexistence / 19 January 1972
Facilitator: Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli
2. THE OTHER: FROM SPEECH TO SEXUALITY
December 17
V. Topology of speech (a talk at Sainte-Anne) / 3 February 1972
The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, Gallagher, part 4
Facilitator: Rawia Inaim
2. THE OTHER: FROM SPEECH TO SEXUALITY
January 7
VI. I ask you to refuse me my offering / 9 February 1972
Facilitator: Alois Sieben
January 21 *Room change: 2295
VII. The vanished partner (a talk at Sainte-Anne) / 3 March 1972
The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, Gallagher, part 5
Facilitator: Rawia Inaim
February 4 - Session canceled
3. THE ONE: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL REACH
February 18 *Room change: 2295
VIII. What is involved in the Other / 8 March 1972
IX. In the field of the Unian / 15 March 1972
Facilitator: Group discussion
March 3
X. Yad’lun / 19 March 1972
Facilitator: Ziwei Yan
March 17
XI. An issue of Ones (a talk at Sainte-Anne)
The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, Gallagher, part 6/ May 4, 1972
Facilitator: Gregory Duby
March 31
XII. Knowledge about truth / 10 May 1972
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
April 14
XIII. The founding of sexual difference / 10 May 1972 (sic) / 17 May 1972 in Gallagher
Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni
April 28
XIV. Theory of the four formulae (a talk at Sainte-Anne)
The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge, Gallagher, part 7 (1. June 1972)
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
4. CODA
May 12
XV. The desire to sleep / 14 June 1972
Facilitator: Ted Byrne
May 26
XVI. Bodies captured by discourse / 21 June 1972
Report on Seminar XIX (Appendix to Miller)
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
LACAN SALON SCHEDULE: FALL-SPRING 2018-2019
THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN: BOOK V
FORMATIONS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
1957-1958
Formations of the Unconscious, text established by Jacques-Alain Miller, was recently translated by Russell Grigg and published by Wiley: https://www.wiley.com/en-ca/Formations+of+the+Unconscious:+The+Seminar+of+Jacques+Lacan,+Book+V-p-9780745660370
For the purpose of this Salon, the text can be read in Grigg’s translation of the Miller edition, which is authoritatively edited from the stenographic transcripts, or in the translation by Cormac Gallagher, which is a direct translation of the stenographic record: http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Book-05-the-formations-of-the-unconscious.pdf
The French edition, Le séminaire de Jacques Lacan, texte établie par Jacques-Alain Miller, is published by Editions de Seuil: http://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/le-seminaire-jacques-lacan/9782020256681
A very useful edition of the stenographic record can be found here: http://staferla.free.fr/S5/S5.htm
The titles in the schedule below come from the Miller edition. The titles are followed by the dates of the seminar, which are used as titles in the Gallagher translation.
FORMATIONS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
1. THE FREUDIAN STRUCTURES OF WIT
September 4 2018
I. The Famillionaire / 6 November 1957
Faciltator: Paul Kingsbury
September 18
II. The Fat-millionaire / 13 November 1957
Faciltator: Oliver Keane
October 2
III. The Miglionaire / 20 November 1957
Faciltator: Vivi Djadja
October 16
IV. The Golden Calf / 27 November 1957
Faciltator: Lucas Pohl
V. A Bit-of-Sense and the Step-of-Sense / 4 December 1957
Faciltator: Lucas Pohl
October 30
VI. Whoah, Neddy! / 11 December 1957
Faciltator: Leigh Tennant
November 13
VII. Une Femme de Non-Recevoir, or: A Flat Refusal / 18 December 1957
Faciltator: Alessandra Capperdoni
2. THE LOGIC OF CASTRATION
November 27
VIII. Foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father / 8 January 1958
Faciltator: Alessandra Capperdoni
IX. The Paternal Metaphor / 15 January 1958
Faciltator: Alessandra Capperdoni
December 11
X. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (I) / 22 January 1958
Faciltator: Ted Byrne
XI. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (II) / 29 January 1958
Faciltator: Ted Byrne
January 8 2019
XII. From Image to Signifier in Pleasure and in Reality / 5 February 1958
Faciltator: Alex Macqueen
January 22
XIII. Fantasy, Beyond the Pleasure Principle / 12 February 1958
Faciltator: Clint Burnham
3. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PHALLUS
February 5
XIV. Desire and Jouissance / 5 March 1958
Faciltator: Alma Krilic
February 19
XV. The Girl and the Phallus / 12 March 1958
Faciltator: Hilda Fernandez
March 5
XVI. Insignias of the Ideal / 19 March 1958
Group discussion
XVII. The Formulas of Desire / 26 March 1958
Group discussion
March 19
XVIII. Symptoms and Their Masks /
Faciltator: Alois Sieben
April 2
XIX. Signifier, Bar and Phallus / 23 April 1958
Faciltator: Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli
4. THE DIALECTIVE OF DESIRE AND DEMAND IN THE CLINICAL STUDY AND TREATMENT OF THE NEUROSES
April 16
XX. The Dream by the Butcher’s Beautiful Wife / 9 April 1958
Faciltator: Alois Sieben
XXI. The ‘Still Waters Run Deep’ Dreams / 7 May 1958
Faciltator: Alex Macqueen
April 30
XXII. The Other’s Desire / 14 May 1958
Faciltator: Leigh Tennant
XXIII. The Obsessional and his Desire / 21 May 1958
Faciltator: Leigh Tennant
May 14
XXIV. Transference and Suggestion / 4 June 1958
Faciltator: Clint Burnham
May 28
XXV. The Signification of the Phallus in the Treatment / 11 June 1958
Faciltator: Hilda Fernandez
June 11
XXVI. The Circuits of Desire / 18 June 1958
Faciltator: Chris Dzierzawa
XXVII. Exiting via the Symptom / 25 June 1958
Faciltator: Chris Dzierzawa
June 25
XXVIII. You Are the One You Hate / 2 July 1958
Faciltator: Paul Kingsbury
LACAN SALON SCHEDULE: WINTER-SPRING 2018
THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN: BOOK XXIII
JOYCE AND THE SINTHOME (http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509510009)
1975-1976
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Joyce and the Sinthome
Translated by Cormac Gallagher
Part 1
http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Book-23-Joyce-and-the-Sinthome-Part-1.pdf
and Part 2 http://www.lacaninireland.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Book-23-Joyce-and-the-Sinthome-Part-2.pdf
THE SPIRIT OF THE NODES
January 2, SEMINAR 1: 18 NOVEMBER 1975
On the logical use of the sinthome, or Freud with Joyce
facilitator: Ted Byrne
January 16, SEMINAR 2: 9 DECEMBER 1975
On what makes a hole in the real
facilitator: Oliver Keane
January 30, SEMINAR 3: 16 DECEMBER 1975
On the knot as the subject’s support
facilitator: Sasha Langford
THE JOYCE TRAIL
February 6*, SEMINAR 4: 13 JANUARY 1976
Joyce and the fox riddle
facilitator: Alois Sieben
February 27, SEMINAR FOR 20 JANUARY 1976
(Presentation at Lacan’s Seminar, by Jacques Aubert)
facilitator: Clint Burnham
March 13, SEMINAR 5: 10 FEBRUARY 1976
Was Joyce mad?
facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
March 27, SEMINAR 6: 17 FEBRUARY 1976
Joyce and imposed words
facilitator: Oliver Keane
THE INVENTION OF THE REAL
April 10, SEMINAR 7: 9 MARCH 1976
On a fallace that vouches for the real
facilitator: Jaleh Mansoor
April 24, SEMINAR 8: 16 MARCH 1976
On sens, sex and the real
facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni
May 8, SEMINAR 9: 13 APRIL 1976
From the unconscious to the real
facilitator: Alma Krilic
BY WAY OF CONCLUSION
May 22, SEMINAR 10: 11 MAY 1976
The writing of the Ego
facilitator: Paul Kingsbury
JUNE 5,
“Joyce the Symptom,” by Lacan
facilitator: Clint Burnham
*please note special date due to a pre-existing booking. Thanks to SFU Woodwards’ Office for Community Engagement for their continued support.
A copy of the Seminar is available online at www.lacaninireland.com (translated by Cormac Gallagher) or from Polity Press. Please note that the Gallagher translation is numbered consecutively from 1-11, Seminar 5 being mostly Jacques Aubert’s intervention.
The Logic of Fantasy: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIV
Translated by Cormac Gallagher
Texts: The Logic of Phantasy: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIV
Schedule 2017:
January 10 - 7:30pm - 9.30pm
I. Session of 16 November 1966
Facilitated by: Paul Kingsbury
January 24 - 7:30pm - 9.30pm
II. Session of 23 November 1966
Facilitated by: Chris Dzierzawa
February 7 - 7:30pm - 9.30pm
III. Session of 30 November 1966
Facilitated by: Clint Burnham
Additional reading: Jacques Alain Miller 'Suture'
February 21 - 7:30pm - 9.30pm
IV. Session of 7 December 1966
Facilitated by: Group discussion
March 7 - 7:30pm - 9.30pm
V. Session of 14 December 1966
Facilitated by: Hilda Fernandez
March 21 - 7:30pm - 9.30pm
VI. Session of 21 December 1966
Facilitated by: Sang Wu
April 4 - 7:30pm - 9.30pm
VII. Session of 29 December 1966
Facilitated by: Sang Wu
April 18 (18 is cancelled)
May 2
VIII. Session of 18 January 1967
Facilitated by: Clint Burnham
May 16
IX. Session of 25 January 1967
and
X. Session of 1 February 1967
Facilitated by: Paul Kingsbury
May 30
XI. Session of 15 February 1967
and
XII. Session of 22 February 1967
Facilitated by: Hilda Fernandez and Ted Byrne
June 13
XIII. Session of 1 March 1967
Facilitated by: Alessandra Capperdoni
June 27
XIV. Session of 8 March 1967
and
XV. Session of 15 March 1967
Facilitated by: Group discussion
September 5
XVI. Session of 12 April 1967
Facilitated by: Clint Burnham
September 19
XVII. Session of 19 April 1967
and
XVIII. Session of 26 April 1967
Facilitated by: Chris Dzierzawa
October 3
XIX. Session of 10 May 1967
Facilitated by: Alessandra Capperdoni
October 17
XX. Session of 24 May 1967
Facilitated by: Ted Byrne
October 31
XXI. Session of 31 May 1967
Facilitated by: Hilda Fernandez
November 14
XXII. Session of 7 June 1967
Facilitated by: Mel Maxon
November 28
XXIII. Session of 14 June 1967
Facilitated by: Alois Sieben
December 12
XIV. Session of 21 June 1967
Facilitated by: Clint Burnham
Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII
Translated by Bruce Fink
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Spinoza's Ethics - notes here
Presented by Neven Knezevic
Feb. 15th - Oct. 18
Spring 2016 Schedule
Texts:
Transference: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VIII
The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings
Schedule Spring 2016:
Tuesday January 5 2016
I. In the Beginning Was Love
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
January 19
II. Set and Characters
Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury
February 2
III. The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus
Facilitator: Pascal Christeller
February 16
Introduction and Spinoza’s Doctrine of Substance, Overview of Ethics I
Facilitator: Neven Knezevic
IV. The Psychology of the Rich: Pausanias
Facilitator: Felipe Palau
March 1
V. Medical Harmony: Eryximachus
Facilitator: Lalo Espejo
March 15
Ethics II
Facilitator: Neven Knezevic
VI. Deriding the Sphere: Aristophanes
Facilitator: (Not) All
March 29
VII. The Atopia of Eros: Agathon
Facilitator: Erin Soros
April 12
Ethics III
Facilitator: Neven Knezevic
VIII. From Epistéme to Mýthos
IX. Exit from the Ultra-World
Facilitator: (Not) All
April 26
X. Ágalma
XI. Between Socrates and Alcibiades
Facilitator: Pascal Christeller
May 10
Ethics IV: Nevin Knezevic
XII. Transference in the Present
XIII. A Critique of Countertransference
Facilitator: Ted Byrne
May 24
XIV. Demand and Desire in the Oral and Anal Stages
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
June 7
Ethics V: Nevin Knezevic
XV. Oral, Anal, and Genital
Facilitator:
June 21
XVI. Psyche and the Castration Complex
Facilitator:
Fall 2016:
Sept 6
XVII. The Symbol Phi
Facilitator: Christopher Dzierzawa
Sept 20
Ethics VI
Facilitator: Neven Knezevic
XVIII. Real Presence
Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukwa
Oct 4
XIX. Sygne’s No
XX. Turelure’s Abjection
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
Oct 18
Ethics VII
Facilitator: Neven Knezevic
XXI. Pensée’s Desire
Facilitator: Group Facilitation
Nov 1
XXII. Structural Decomposition
Facilitator: Ted Bryne
Nov 15
XXIII. Slippage in the Meaning of the Ideal
Facilitator:
Nov 29
XXIV. Identification via “ein einziger Zug”
Facilitator:
December 13
XXV. The Relationship between Anxiety and Desire
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
XXVI. “A Dream of a Shadow Is Man”
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
XXVII. Mourning the Loss of the Analyst
Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury
Seminar VI Desire and its Interpretation
Cormack Gallagher translation
(Titles taken from Le Seminaire Livre VI, ed. Jacques Alain Miller, 2013)
Fall 2015 Term:
Sept. 8: Seminar 20 (13.5.59)
The Fundamental Phantasm
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
Sept. 22: Seminar 21 (20.5.59)
The Form of the Cut
Facilitator: Alma Krilic
Oct. 6: Seminar 22 (27.5.59)
Cut and Phantasm
Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa
Oct. 20: Seminar 23 (3.6.59)
The Function of the Subjective Feint
Facilitator: Clint Burnham
Nov. 3: Seminar 24 (10.6.59)
The Neurotic’s Dialectic of Desire
Facilitator: Desiree Jung
Nov. 17: Seminar 25 (17.6.59)
The Either…Or…of the Object
Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury
Dec. 1: Seminar 26 (24.6.59)
The Function of Splitting in Perversion
Facilitator: Brock MacLachlan
Dec. 15: Seminar 27 (1.7.59)
Towards Sublimation
Facilitator: Ted Byrne
AGM December 15 at 8:30pm
Fall 2014 Term:
Sept. 9: Annual General Meeting
Sept. 23: Seminar 1 (12.11.58)
Construction of the Graph
Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa
Oct. 7: Seminar 2 (19.11.58)
Explicatory Supplement
Facilitator: Alessandra Caperdoni
Oct. 21: Seminar 3 (26.11.58)
The Dream of the Dead Father : “He didn’t know that he was dead…”
Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury
Supplementary reading: “The Unconscious”, Freud (1915)
Nov. 4: Seminar 4 (3.12.58)
Little Anna’s Dream
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
Nov. 18: Seminar 5 (10.12.58)
The Dream of the Dead Father: As He Wishes
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
Dec. 2: Seminar 6 (17.12.58)
Introduction to the Object of Desire
Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukwa (virtual facilitation)
Dec. 16: Seminar 7 (7.1.59)
The Phallic Mediation of Desire
Supplementary reading:
Freud's Negation
http://faculty.smu.edu/dfoster/English%203304/Negation.htm
Alenka Zupancic Not-Mother: On Freud's Verneinung
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/not-mother-on-freuds-verneinung/
Facilitator: Alma Krilic
Spring 2015 Term:
Jan. 6: Seminar 8 (14.1.59)
The Message of the Little Cough
Facilitator: Ted Byrne
Supplementary reading Seminars 8-12:
Dream Analysis, Ella Sharpe (1937), esp. Chapter 5
Jan. 20: Seminar 9 (21.1.59)
The Phantasm of the Barking Dog
Facilitator: Ted Byrne
Feb. 3: Seminar 10 (28.1.59)
The Image of the Inside Out Glove
Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa
Feb. 17: Presentation by Russell Grigg from the Lacan Circle of Melbourne (virtual facilitation)
Desire in Mourning and Melancholia
Supplementary reading:
Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia" (1917)
Mar. 3: Seminar 11 (4.2.59)
The Sacrifice of the Taboo Woman
Seminar 12 (11.2.59)
The Laughter of the Immortal Gods
Facilitator: Desiree Jung
Mar. 17: Seminar 13 (4.3.59)
The Impossible Act
Facilitator: Ted Byrne
Mar. 31: Seminar 14 (11.3.59)
The Desire Trap
Facilitator: Ted Byrne
Supplementary Reading Seminars 13-19:
Hamlet, Shakespeare
“Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet,” Lacan, in Literature and Psychoanalysis ed. Shoshana Felman (1982)
Hamlet & Oedipus, Ernest Jones (1954)
Apr. 14: Seminar 15 (18.3.59)
The Desire of the Mother
Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni
Apr. 28: Seminar 16 (8.4.59)
There is no Other of the Other
Facilitator: Alma Krilic
May 12: Seminar 17 (15.4.59)
The Ophelia Object
Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni
May 26: Seminar 18 (22.4.59)
Mourning and Desire
Facilitator: David Ferraro from Lacan Circle of Melbourne (virtual facilitation)
June 9: Seminar 19 (29.4.59)
Phallophanies
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
Summer 2014 – Life and Death in Psychoanalysis by Jean Laplanche
Most critics have come to terms with the contradictions in Freud's work by attempting to impose a unified system even at the cost of rejecting crucial metapsychological concepts such as the death wish. According to Jean Laplanche, "such variations or variants deserve better than a choice in favor of one or the other: they require an interpretation and such an interpretation implies that, as is the case with the analysis of dreams, all the elements be juxtaposed so that nothing be eliminated, that the either / or be retranslated into an and"
In a way that Freud plainly does not control, Laplanche argues, there are at work two different concepts corresponding to each of a series of crucial Freudian terms; in each of these conceptual pairs one of the elements is solidary with a specific conceptual scheme and the other with a second one. The entire body of Freud's work, for Laplanche, is constituted as an elaborately structured polemical field in which two mutually exclusive schemes may be seen to be struggling to dominate a single terminological apparatus.
Life and Death in Psychoanalysis is a painstakingly lucid inquiry into the interpretative consequences of the conceptual and terminological difficulties posed by Freud's texts. It is an uncannily precise delineation of the perverse rigor with which Freud's most virulent discoveries perpetually escape him - and are endlessly rediscovered.
Meeting Place: First Session, July 8th @ Roundhouse Community Centre; July 15th - August 16th @ SFU Woodwards
July 8 – The Order of Life and the Genesis of Human Sexuality
July 15 – Sexuality and the Vital Order in Psychical Conflict
July 22 – The Ego and the Vital Order
July 29 – The Ego and Narcissism
August 5 – Aggressiveness and Sadomasochism
August 12 – Why the Death Drive?
August 16 – Conclusion and Appendix: The Derivation of Psychoanalytic Entities
LACAN SALON – 2014 FALL-SPRING-SUMMER
Text: Jacques Lacan, Seminar X – Anxiety
September 3, 2013 Seminar 1 (14 Nov/62), pp. 2-12 Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez. ALSO Freud Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926) SE XX
Sept. 17 Seminar 2 (21 Nov/62), pp. 13-23 Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa
October 1 Seminar 3 (28 Nov/62), pp. 24-35; supplemental reading, Heidegger, chapt. 30 of Being & Time – “Fear as a mode of state-of-mind” Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukwa
Oct. 15 Seminar 4 (5 Dec/62), pp. 36-47 Facilitator: Clint Burnham
Oct. 29 Seminar 5 (12 Dec/62), pp. 48-61 Facilitator: Alma Krilic
ALSO An excerpt from Jean Paul Sartre.
November 12 Seminar 6 (19 Dec/62), pp. 62-73 Facilitator: Alessandra Caperdoni
Nov. 26 Seminar 7 (9 Jan/63), pp. 74-87 Facilitator: Dan Starling
December 10 Seminar 8&9 (16 & 23 Jan/63), pp. 88-116 Facilitator: Ted Byrne
January 7, 2014 Seminars 10&12 (30 Jan & 27 Feb/63)(no seminar 11), pp. 117-143 Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
Jan. 21 Seminar 13 (6 Mar/63), pp. 144-153 Facilitator: Alessandra Caperdoni
February 4 Seminar 14 (13 Mar/63), pp. 154-167 Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury
Feb. 18 Seminar 15 (20 Mar/63), pp. 168-181 Facilitator: Clint Burnham
March 4 Seminar 16 (27 Mar/63), pp. 182-194 Facilitator: All group
Mar. 18 Seminar 17 (8 May/63), pp. 195-210 Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukwa
April 1 Seminar 18 (15 May/63), pp. 211-223 Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa
Apr. 15 Seminar 19 (22 May/63), pp. 224-236 Facilitator: Alessandra Caperdoni
Apr. 29 Seminars 20 & 21 (29 May, 5 June/63), pp. 237-257 Facilitator: Wayne Wapeemukwa and Ted Byrne
May 13 Seminar 22 (12 June/63), pp. 258-271 Facilitator: Ted Byrne
May 27 Seminar 23 (19 June/63), pp. 272-286 Facilitator: Alois Sieben
June 10 Seminar 24 ( 26 June/63), pp. 287-300 Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez and Larry Green
June 24 Seminar 25 (3 July/63), pp. 301-313 Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
LACAN SALON WINTER-SPRING 2013
January 8 Lacan: My Teachings (Verso, 2008): Chapt. 1 Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa
January 22 (At the Roundhouse 8-10pm) Lacan My Teachings Chapts 2, 3 Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
February 5 Lacan: “Radiophonie” (from Scilicet 2/3, 1970, pp 55-99) Facilitator: Kyle Carpenter
February 19 Lacan: “Radiophonie” Facilitator: Kyle Carpenter
March 19 Lacan, Television (from October 40, Spring 1987, pp. 6-50) Facilitator: Group
April 2 Lacan, Television Facilitator: Kyle Carpenter
April 16 Lacan, Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, trans. Russell Grigg, Chapter one: “The Production of the Four Discourses”, pp. 11 ff Facilitator: Wayne Robinson
April 30 By Dr. Paul Verhaeghe our coming keynote speaker for LaConference 2013:
- Psychoanalysis in Times of Science (2011) An Interview
- From Impossibility to Inability (1995) On Lacan's Four Discourses
- Love in a Time of Loneliness (1999) I'll concentrate on pp 142-199 The Drive
Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
May 14, “The Function and Field of Speech in Psychoanalysis” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 197-268 Facilitator: TBA
May 28, “The Function and Field of Speech in Psychoanalysis” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 197-268 Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa
June 11 "The Name of the Father" Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury
June 25 "Remarks on Daniel Lagache's Presentation" Facilitator: Clint Burnham
LACAN SALON Fall 2012 Schedule
Tuesday Sept 4 (Board Room) The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytical Experience (1949) pp 75-81; Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis (1948) pp 82-101; ALSO Freud, "On Narcissism" (1914) SE XIV (pp 69-102)
Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
Wednesday, September 19 “The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 334-363/401-436.*
Facilitator: Desiree Jung
ALSO Freud, " On The History Of The Psychoanalytic Movement (1914) SE XIV (pp 1-7) and/or “An Autobiographical Study” (1925) SE XX (pp 2-69) Facilitator: Myka Abramson
October 3 “Introduction to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s ‘Verneinung’,” “Response to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s ‘Verneinung’,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 308-333/369-399.* ( Hyppolite’s “A spoken commentary on Freud's Verneinung” [from The seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book 1: Freud's papers on technique, 1953-1954 but also reproduced in our Écrits, 746-754/879-887]). Facilitator: Clint Burnham
ALSO Freud’s “Negation,” SE 19: 233-239, Facilitator: Wayne Robinson
October 17 “Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 610-620/725-736.* Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa
ALSO Freud, “Some Psychical Consequences Of The Anatomical Distinction Between The Sexes” (1925) SE XXI (pp 221-243); "Female Sexuality (1931) SE XIX (pp 241-258) and/or Femininity in "New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis” (1933) SE XXII (pp 112-135) Facilitator Chris Dzierzawa
October 31”The Youth of Gide, or the Letter and Desire,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 623-644/739-764.* Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni
ALSO Freud, "Dostoevsky and Parricide (1928) SE XXI (pp 185-208) Facilitator TBA
November 14 “On a Question Prior to any Possible Treatment of Psychosis,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 445-488/531-583.* Facilitator: Richard Ingram
ALSO Freud, "Neurosis and Psychosis (1924) SE XIX (pp 147-153) and/or “The Loss Of Reality In Neurosis and Psychosis (1924) SE XIX (pp 181-187) Facilitator TBA
We won’t discuss all Schreber case, but it is important to have some familiarity with it. “Psycho-Analytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (1911) SE XII (pp 1-79)
November 28 “On Freud’s ‘Trieb’ and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 722-725/852-854.* and “Position of the Unconsciouss” pp 703-721/829-850. Facilitator: Anthony DeLemos
This text is based on Lacan’s Seminar XI (1964) “The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis”, Worth checking Chapter 13 and 14 (pp 161-174) trans A. Sheridan.
ALSO Freud, "Instincts and their Vicissitudes (1915) SE XIV (pp 109-140) Facilitator: TBA
December 12 “Presentation on Transference,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 176-185/215-226.* .*Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez
Since Lacan’s text is about Dora’s case read Freud’s "Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905) SE VII (pp 1-122)
ALSO Freud “The Dynamics Of Transference” (1912) SE XII (pp 97-109) and “Observations on Transference-Love” (1915) SE XII (pp 157-171) Facilitator Brad Murray
* Pagination is for complete English edition (Fink translation) first, then French edition (1966 edition).
LACAN SALON Summer 2012
Žižek reading group: Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
Venue: Access Gallery 222 E Georgia
7-9 pm Tuesdays
July 3: Introduction, Part I: The Drink Before; Chapter 1 Vacillating the Semblances,
Chapter 2 Where There is Nothing, Read that I love you (pp 1-135)
July 10: Chapt 3 Fichte’s Choice, Part II: The Thing Itself: Hegel; Chapt 4 Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today? (pp 137-240)
July 17 Interlude 1: Marx as a Reader of Hegel, Hegel as a Reader of Marx; Chapt. 5 Parataxis: Figures of the Dialectical Process; Interlude 2: Cogito in the History of Madness (pp 241-358)
July 24 Chapt. 6: Not only as Substance, but Also as Subject; Interlude 3: King, Rabble, War … and Sex (pp 359-453)
July 31 Chapt. 7 The Limits of Hegel; Part III: The Thing Itself: Lacan; Chapt 8 Lacan as a Reader of Hegel (pp 455 – 555)
Aug 7 Interlude 4: Borrowing from the Future, Changing the Past; Chapt. 9: Suture and Pure Difference; Interlude 5: Correlationism and its Discontents; Chapt. 10 Objects, Objects Everywhere (pp 557-713)
Aug 14 Interlude 6: Cognitivism and the Loop of Self-Positing; Chapt. 11 The Non-All, or, the Ontology of Sexual Difference; Part IV: The Cigarette After; Chapt 12: The Foursome of Terror, Anxiety, Courage … and Enthusiasm (pp 715-858)
Aug 21 Chapt. 13 The Foursome of Struggle, Historicity, Will … and Gelassenheit, Chapt. 14: The Ontology of Quantum Physics; Conclusion (pp 859-1010).
LACAN SALON – WINTER/SPRING 2012
SEMINAR III: THE PSYCHOSES – 1955-1956
Jan. 3 (7-9 pm, multimedia room) INTRODUCTION TO THE QUESTION OF THE PSYCHOSES Chapt. I, 3-15 Facilitating: Clint Burnham
Jan. 17 (7-9 pm, multimedia room) Chapts. II-III, “The Meaning of delusion,” “The Other and psychosis,” pp. 16-43. Facilitating: Chris Dzierzawa
Jan. 31 (7-9 pm, multimedia room) Chapt. IV, “‘I’ve just been to the butcher’s’,” THEMATICS AND STRUCTURE OF THE PSYCHOTIC STRUCTURE, Chapt. V, “On a god who does not deceive and one who does,” pp. 44-72. Facilitating: Kyle Carpenter
Supplemental reading:* Freud: “Neurosis and Psychosis” (SE 19: 149-53), “The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis” (SE 19: 187-87)
Feb. 14 (7:30-9:30 pm, room C) Chapts. VI-VII, “The psychotic phenomenon and its mechanism,” “The imaginary dissolution,” pp. 73-101 Facilitating: Hilda Fernandez
Feb. 28 (7:30-9:30 pm, room C) Chapts. VIII-IX, “The symbolic sentence,” “On nonsense and the structure of God,” pp. 102-129. Facilitating: Wayne Robinson
Mar. 13 (7:30-9:30 pm, room C) Chapts. X – XI, “On the signifier in the real and the bellowing-miracle,” “On the rejection of the primordial signifier,” pp. 130-157. Facilitating: Dylan Harvey
Mar. 27 (7:30-9:30 pm, room C) ON THE SIGNIFIER AND THE SIGNIFIED Chapts. XII – XIII, “The Hysteric’s Question,” “The Hysteric’s question (II): What is a woman?” pp. 161-182. Facilitating: Alessandra Caperdoni
Supplemental reading: Freud: “Fragment of an analysis of hysteria (Dora)” (SE VII: 3-124)
Apr. 10 (7-9 pm, music room) Chapts. XIV – XV, “The signifier, as such, signifies nothing,” “On primordial signifiers and the lack of one,” pp. 183-205 Facilitating: Chris Dzierzawa
Apr. 24 (7-9 pm, music room) Chapts. XVI – XVII, “Secretaries to the insane,” “Metaphor and metonymy (I): ‘His sheaf was neither miserly nor spiteful’,” pp. 206-221 Facilitating Jaime Kirtz
May 8 (7-9 pm, room B) Chapts. XVIII – XIX, “Metaphor and metonymy (II): Signifying articulation and transference of the signified,” “An address: Freud in the century,” pp. 222-244. Facilitating Wayne Robinson
May 22 (7-9 pm, room B) THE ENVIRONS OF THE HOLE Chapts. XX – XXI, “The appeal, the allusion,” “The quilting point,” 247-270 Facilitating All the group
June 5 (7-9 pm, room B) Chapts. XXII – XXIII, “‘Thou art the one who will follow me’,” “The highway and the signifier ‘being a father’,” pp. 271-294 Facilitating Clint Burnham
June 19 (7-9 pm, music room) Chapts. XXIV – XXV “‘Thou art’,” “The phallus and the meteor,” pp. 295-323. Facilitating Hilda Fernandez. Virtual guest Juan Manuel Rodriguez (speaking about the treatment for Psychosis from a psychoanalytical perspective)
*three other essential texts are Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Freud’s “Psychoanalytic Notes on an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides)” (SE XII, 3-84), and Lacan’s “On a Question Prior to any Possible Treatment of Psychosis” (Écrits 445-488)
other possible texts:
Sheila Kunkle, “Psychosis in a Cyberspace Age”, Other Voices, v.1, n.3 (January 1999) http://www.othervoices.org/1.3/skunkle/psychosis.php#t19
Bruce Fink, “Psychosis,” A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique (chapt. 7, pp 79-111)
Slavoj Žižek, “Love thy neighbour? No Thanks!”, The Plague of Fantasies, chapt. 2.
Eric Santner, My own private Germany: Daniel Paul Schreber's secret history of modernity Princeton, 1996
Fall 2011 - Lacan’s Seminar II “”The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis” (1954-55)
Sept 6 (Board room: 7-9 pm) Introduction: Chapters I & II (pp. 3-24): Facilitating: Hilda Fernandez.
Sept 20 (Music room: 8-10 pm) Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Repetition: Chapts. III, IV, V (pp. 27-63) Supplementary readings Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1921). Facilitating: Kyle Carpenter (Lacan), Clint Burnham (Freud)
Oct 4 (Multimedia room: 8-10 pm) Chapts. VI, VII; The Freudian Schemata of the Psychic Apparatus: Chapt. VIII (pp. 64-101) Supplementary: Freud, The Origin of Psychoanalysis (Letters from Freud to Fliess) Letters 25,26,27. Facilitating: Ted Byrne (Chapter VI), Kerry Pollock (Remaining Lacan)
Oct 18 (Multimedia room: 8-10 pm) Chapts. IX, X (pp. 102-122) Supplementary Freud, Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) Part I (SE I 330-391). Facilitating: All the group
Nov 1 (Music room: short session: 8:30-10 pm) Chapts. XI, XII (pp. 123-145) Supplementary: Freud, either: Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916) SE XV Lecture 11th OR The Interpretations of Dreams (Chapter VII 1900) SE IV Pp 277-309 Both on “work of the dream.” Facilitating: Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Nov 15 (Multimedia room: 8-10 pm) Chapts XIII, XIV; Beyond the Imaginary, the Symbolic or from the Little to the Big Other: Chapt. XV (pp. 146-190); Supplementary readings: Freud, “Irma’s injection” dream, Interpretation of Dreams, SE 4: 96-121 [Chapt. 2]. Facilitating: Brad Murray (Lacan), Alessandra Capperdoni (Freud).
Nov 29 (Multimedia room: 8-10 pm) Chapts. XVI, XVII, XVIII (pp. 191-234) Freud Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921) SE XVIII. Facilitating: Ian Angus (Lacan), Hilda Fernandez (Freud).
Dec 6 (Board room: 7-9 pm) Chapts. XIX, XX, XXI (pp. 235-273) The Ego and the Id (1923) SE XIX. Facilitating: Cris Costa (Lacan) and Chris Dzierzawa (Freud)
Dec 13 (Music room: 7-9 pm) Finale: Chapts. XXII, XXIII, XXIV (pp. 277-326). Facilitating: Emilio Allier-Montano
Summer 2011 – Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojeve
During the years 1933-1939 Alexandre Kojeve gave a series of lectures on the philosophy of Hegel as it was developed in The Phenomenology of Spirit. Attended by Raymond Queneau, Georges Bataille, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, André Breton, Jacques Lacan and Raymond Aron, these lectures form one of the corner stones of French intellectual thought for the latter half of the twentieth century.
Meetings will take place weekly, Tuesday Evenings (7-9), at Access Gallery (437 West Hastings). As with the Salon, we will ask for a $2 contribution to help support the organization lending us their space. Hope to see you there!!
Man is Self-Consciousness. He is conscious of himself, conscious of his human reality and dignity; and it is in this that he is essentially different from animals, which do not go beyond the level of simple Sentiment of Self. Man becomes conscious of himself at the moment when – for the “first” time – he says “I”. To understand man by understanding his “origin” is, therefore, to understand the origin of the I revealed by speech. (First paragraph of the Book)
July 5 – Editors Introduction (vii-xii); Chapter 1 - In place of an introduction (pg. 3-30)
July 12 – Summary of the First 6 Chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit (pg. 31-50)
July 19 – Summary of the First 6 Chapters of the Phenomenology of Spirit continued (pg. 50-71)
July 26 – Summary of the Course in 1937-1938 (pg. 71-75); Philosophy and Wisdom (pg. pg. 75-100)
August 2 – A Note on Eternity, Time, and the Concept (pg. 100-125)
August 9 – A Note on Eternity, Time, and the Concept continued (pg. 125-150)
August 16 – Interpretation of the Third Part of Chapter VIII of the Phenomenology of Spirit (conclusion) (pg. 150-169)
August 23 – The Dialectic of the Real and the Phenomenological Method in Hegel (pg. 169-200)
August 30 – The Dialectic of the Real and the Phenomenological Method in Hegel continued (pg. 200- …)
Spring 2011 Syllabus ~ Écrits
January 11 & 25, 2011: Jacques Lacan, Écrits: “Seminar on ‘The Purloined Letter’”; secondary readings: Derrida, “The Purveyor of Truth,” from The Post Card; E.A. Poe, “The Purloined Letter”; (Bruce Fink?)
Facilitators: Jan. 11 (Board Room) – Alessandra Capperdoni on the Seminar
Facilitators: Jan 25 (Music Room) – Ted Byrne on Derrida
February 8 & 22 and March 8: Jacques Lacan, Écrits: “On the Subject Who is Finally in Question,” and “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis” ALSO Freud, "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscious" (1905) SE VIII (Part I: Intro Pp 10-16; and II: Technique of the Joke [1] to [3] Pp 16-41); "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis" (1916) SE XV Lecture 4th Failed Actions (conclusion)
Facilitators: Feb. 8 (Music Room)– Clint Burnham
Facilitators: Feb. 22 (Music Room)– Chris Dzierzawa
Facilitators: Mar 8 (Room A)– Jesse Proudfoot
March 22 & April 5: Jacques Lacan, Écrits: “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious, or Reason Since Freud”; secondary reading: Fink, “Reading ‘The Instance of the Letter’,” from Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely. ALSO Freud, "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis" (1916) SE XV Lecture 11th: Work Of the Dream OR "The Interpretations of Dreams" SE IV The Work of the Dream Pp 277-309
Facilitators: Mar 22 (Room A) Desireé Jung
Facilitators: Apr. 5 – (Room A) Emilio Allier Montano
April 19 & May 3: Jacques Lacan, Écrits: “The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power”; secondary reading: Fink, “Lacanian Technique in ‘The Direction of the Treatment,” from Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely ALSO Freud, "The Interpretations of Dreams" SE IV Oneiric Disfiguration (The Butcher's Wife Dream) Pp 146-152. " Analysis Terminable And Interminable" (1937) SE XXIII. "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis" (1916) SE XV Lecture 17th: Meaning of Symptoms
Facilitators: Apr. 19- (Room A) Jorge Santiago
Facilitators: May 3 – (Room A) Hilda Fernandez
May 17 & 31: Jacques Lacan, Écrits: “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious”; secondary readings: Fink, “Reading ‘The Subversion of the Subject’,” from Lacan to the Letter: Reading Écrits Closely; Slavoj Žižek, “Che Vuoi?” from The Sublime Object of Ideology.
Facilitators: May 17 – (Room A) Andrew Schmuley on “Subversion of the Subject”
Facilitators: May 31 – (Room A) Prabh Singh w/ Paul Kingsbury on Žižek
May 24: Clinical Dialogue with Dr. Roger Frie presenting a clinical case “Culture and Identity in the German-Jewish Experience: A Bilingual Case Study” followed by a discussion of the case from a Lacanian perspective by Paulina Moreno and Hilda Fernandez.
Meeting place and time: 2nd floor-1267 Marinaside Crescent, Vancouver BC V6Z 2X5. 7-9pm
June 14: Jacques Lacan, Écrits: “The Situation of Psychoanalysis and the Training of Psychoanalysts in 1956”; "On Freud's Trieb and the Psychoanalyst's Desire"; and "Psychoanalysis and Its Teaching". ALSO Freud, "Psychopathology of Everyday Life" (1901) SE VI Forgetting Proper Names (Signorelli) 1-7; The Question Of Lay Analysis (1926) SE XX
Facilitators: June 14 - (Room A) Hilda Fernandez
FALL 2010 ~ Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-1960
Sept 7 Outline of the Seminar/Introduction to the Thing (Chapts. I-III; pp. 1-42); Hilda Fernandez
ALSO: from Freud, The 1895 Project for a Scientific Psychology (SE I 330-335) (facilitating on Freud: Clint Burnham)
Sept 14 Das Ding (Chapts. IV-VI; pp. 43-84). (Facilitating on chapt. IV: Clint Burnham; Chap VI Hilda Fernandez)
Sept 28 Drives and things (Chapts. VII-IX; pp. 87-127); ALSO Joan Copjec, Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation, Chapt. 1 (facilitating: Jon Smith/Kerry Pollock)
Oct 12 Courtly love (Chapts. X-XII; pp. 128-164) (facilitating Alessandra Capperdoni/Ted Byrne)
Oct 26 The Neighbour (Chapts. XII-XIV; pp. 167-190); (facilitating Dylan Godwin) ALSO Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
Nov 2 Jouissance (Chapts. XV-XVI; pp. 191-217); ALSO Kenneth Reinhard, “Towards a Political Theology of the Neighbor,” in Zizek et al, The Neighbor (facilitating: Jesse Proudfoot)
Nov 16 The Good, the goods, the beautiful (Chapts. XVII-XVIII; pp. 218-240) (Facilitating: Paul Kingsbury/Andrew Shmuley)
Nov 30 The Essence of Tragedy – A commentary on Sophocles’ Antigone (Chapts. XIX – XXI: pp. 243-287); ALSO: Sophocles, Antigone (facilitating: Desireé Jung)
Dec 14: The Tragic Dimension of the Analytic Experience (Chapts. XXII – XXIV: pp 291-325) (Facilitating: Hilda Fernandez/Paulina Moreno)
Summer 2010
Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Part I: THE DESIRING MACHINES
June 29th: An appetizer: Daniel W. Smith "The Inverse Side of Structure: Zizek on Deleuze and Lacan"; Desiring-Production, The Body Without Organs, the Subject and Enjoyment.
July 6th: A Materialist Psychiatry, The Machines, The Whole and its Parts.
Part II: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FAMILIALISM: THE HOLY FAMILY
July 13th: The Imperialism of Oedipus, Three Texts of Freud, The Connective Synthesis of Production, The Disjunctive Synthesis of Recording, The Conjunctive Synthesis of Consumption-Consummation.
July 20th: Recapitulation of the three syntheses, Social Repression and Psychic Repression, Neurosis and Psychosis, The Process.
Part III: SAVAGES, BARBARIANS, CIVILIZED MEN
July 27th: The Inscribing Socius, The Primitive Territorial Machine, The Problem of Oedipus, Psychoanalysis and Ethnology (44 pages)
July 3rd: Territorial Representation, The Barbarian Despotic Machine, Barbarian or Imperial Representation, The Urstaat (39 pages)
July 10th: The Civilized Capitalist Machine, Capitalist Representation, Oedipus at Last (50 pages).
Part IV: INTRODUCTION TO SCHIZOANALYSIS
August 17th: The Social Field, The Molecular Unconscious, Psychoanalysis and Capitalism.
August 24th: The First Positive task of Schizoanalysis, The Second Positive Task.
Spring 2010
Seminar XX: On Feminine Sexuality. The Limits Of Love And Knowledge
Jan. 5 Introduction by Hilda Fernandez
Chapter I, On Jouissance (pp. 1-13)
Suzanne Barnard, Introduction (1-20)*
Jan. 19 Chapters II, To Jakobson & III, The Function of the Written (14-37);
Freud, "The Sexual Abnormalities" in Three Essays On the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Standard Edition (SE) Vol. 7 (123-156)
Freud, "Sexuality in Childhood" in Three Essays On the Theory of Sexuality (1905) SE Vol. 7 (157-188)
Freud reading presented by Clint Burnham
Feb. 2 Chapter IV, Love and the Signifier (38-50); Facilitated by Marc Acherman
Freud, "Metamorphosis of Puberty" in Three Essays On the Theory of Sexuality (1905) SE Vol. 7 (189-222)
Bruce Fink, Knowledge and Jouissance (21-46)*
Freud reading presented by Jesse Proudfoot
March 2 Chapter V, Aristotle and Freud: the Other Satisfaction (51-63); Facilitated by Richard Welch
Freud, "A Special Type Of Choice Of Object Made By Men" (1910) Contributions to the Psychology of Love I. SE Vol. 11 (163-175) Freud
reading presented by Hilda Fernandez and Jesse Proudfoot
Colette Soler, Hysteria in Scientific Discourse (47-56)*
Mar. 16 Chapter VI, God and Woman’s jouissance (64-77); Facilitated by Dave Gaertner
Freud, "On The Universal Tendency To Debasement In The Sphere Of Love" (1912) Contributions to the Psychology of Love II SE Vol. 11 (177-190) Freud reading presented by Alessandra Capperdoni
Slavoj Žižek, The Real of Sexual Difference (57-76)* Presented by Jason Starnes
Mar. 30 Chapter VII, A Love Letter (78-89); Facilitated by Alessandra Capperdoni
Freud, "The Taboo Of Virginity" Contributions to the Psychology of Love III (1918) SE Vol. 11 (191-208)
Freud reading presented by Hilda Fernandez
Geneviève Morel, “Feminine Conditions of Jouissance” (77-92)*
Apr. 13 Chapter VIII, Knowledge and Truth (90-103); Facilitated by Chris Dzierzawa
Freud, "On The Sexual Theories Of Children" (1908) SE Vol 9 (205-226)
Lacan, "Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality" (1960) Ecrits (610-644)
Presented by Marc Acherman
Renata Salecl, Love Anxieties (93-98)* Presented by Alessandra Capperdoni
Apr. 27 Chapter IX, On the Baroque (104-117); Facilitated by Desire Jung
Lacan, "The Signification of the Phallus" (1958) Écrits (575-584)
Paul Verhaeghe, Lacan’s Answer to the Classical Mind/Body Deadlock: Retracing Freud’s Beyond (109-140)*
Colette Soler, "What does the Unconscious know about Women?" (99-108)*
May 11 Chapter X, Rats of String (118-136); Facilitated by Clint Burnham
Andrew Cutrofello: The Ontological Status of Lacan’s Mathematical Paradigms (141-170)*
May 25 Chapter XI: The Rat in the Maze; Facilitated by Andrew Shmuely
Suzanne Barnard: Tongues of Angels: Feminine Structure and Other Jouissance (171-186)*
*from Barnard & Fink, eds., Reading Seminar XX: Lacan’s Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuaity, SUNY UP, 2002.
Fall 2009
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan Book XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
Aug 25 Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
Introduction by Hilda Fernandez; Chapter I, "Production of the Four Discourses" (pp. 11–26).
Sept. 8 Facilitated by Dave Gaertner and Myka Abramson
Chapters II, "The Master and the Hysteric" & III, "Knowledge, a Means of Jouissance" (pp. 29–53);
Jacques-Alain-Miller, “On Shame” (11–28)*
Sigmund Freud, "Fragment Of An Analysis Of A Case Of Hysteria (Dora) (1905). Dora case presented by Clint Burnham.
Sept. 22 Facilitated by Marc Acherman and Carrie Pollack
Chapters IV, "Truth, the Sister of Jouissance" & V, "The Lacanian field" (54–83);
Ellie Ragland, “The Hysteric’s Truth” (69–87)*.
Oct. 6 Facilitated by Alessandra Capperdoni
Chapter VI, "The Castrated Master" (pp. 87–101);
Eric Laurent, “Symptom and discourse” (229–253)*
George Steiner, "Lessons of the Masters" (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).
Steiner reading presented by Hilda Fernandez
Oct 20 Facilitated by Jesse Proudfoot and Paul Kingsbury
Chapters VII, "Oedipus and Moses and the father of the horde", and VIII, "From myth to structure" (pp. 102–132);
Sigmund Freud "Moses and Monotheism" (1939)
Sigmund Freud "Letters 70 and 71 to Fliess"
Paul Verhaeghe, “Enjoyment and Impossibility: Lacan’s Revision of the Oedipus Complex” (29–49)*.
With a screening of Martin Arnold's "Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy" presented by Jesse Proudfoot.
Nov. 3 Facilitated by all the members
Chapter IX, "Yahweh’s Ferocious Ignorance" (pp. 133–140);
Russell Grigg, “Beyond the Oedipus Complex” (50–68)*.
Nov. 17 Facilitated by Cristian Dzierzawa and Richard Welch
Chapters X, "Interview on the Steps of the Pantheon", XI, "Furrows in the Alethosphere" (pp. 143–163);
Oliver Feltham, “Enjoy your Stay: Structural Change in Seminar XVII (179–194)*.
Dec. 1 Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
Chapter XII, "The Impotence of Truth" (pp. 164–179);
Slavoj Zizek, “Objet a in Social Links” (107–128)*.
Zizek reading presented by Clint Burnham
Dec. 15 Facilitated by Jason Starnes
Chapter XIII, "The Power of the Impossibles, Analyticon" (pp. 180–208);
Dominick Hoens, “Toward a New Perversion: Psychoanalysis” (88–103)*
Sigmund Freud, "Analysis Terminable And Interminable" (1937).
Freud reading presented by Andrew Shmuely
*from Clemens & Griggs, eds., Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII. Duke University Press, 2007.
Spring 2009
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI:
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964–65)
January 6 Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
Context by Hilda Fernandez; Chapter I: Excommunication.
January 20 Facilitated by Janet Oakes
The Unconscious and Repetition: II: The Freudian Unconscious and Ours, III: Of the Subject of Uncertainty.
Freud's Reading "On the Psychology of the Dream Process" (1900) (Presented by Ofelia Ros)
February 3 Facilitated by Calen Nixon and Paulina Moreno
IV: Of the Network of Signifiers, V: Tuché and Automaton.
Freud's Reading "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (1920) and "Letter 52 to Fliess" (presented by Jesse Proudfoot).
February 17 Facilitated by Niall Man and Nazie Naraghi
Of the Gaze as Objet petit a: VI: The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze, VII Anamorphosis.
Merleau Ponty's Reading Part II of Phenomenology of Perception (presented by Niall Mann).
VIII: The Line and the Light, IX What is a picture?.
March 17 Facilitated by Jason Starnes
The Transference and the Drive: X: Presence of the Analyst, XI: Analysis and Truth or the Closure of the Unconscious.
Freud's Reading "Remembering, Repeating, Working Through" (1914) (presented by Hilda Fernandez).
XII: Sexuality in the Defiles of the Signifier, XIII: The Deconstruction of the Drive.
Freud's Reading "Instincts and Its Vicissitudes" (1915) (presented by Marc Acherman).
April 14 Facilitated by Paul Kingsbury
XIV: The Partial Drive and its Circuit, XV: From Love to Libido.
April 28 Facilitated by Dave Gaertner
The Field of the Other and Back to the Transference: XVI: The Subject and the Other: Alienation, XVII: The Subject and
the Other: Aphanisis.
May 12 Facilitated by Clint Burnham
XVIII: Of the Subject Supposed to Know, of the first Dyad and of the Good, IXX: From Interpretation to the Transference.
Freud's Reading "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" (1921) (presented by Jon Smith).
May 26 Facilitated by Nancy Gillespie
To Conclude: XX: In you more than you.
September 2 Facilitated by Clint Burnham
Fall 2008
March 3 Facilitated by Niall Mann
March 31 Facilitated by Ofelia Ros
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book I:
Freud’s Papers on Technique, (1953–54)
Overture to the Seminar; The Moment of Resistance I: Introduction to the commentaries on Freud’s Papers
on Technique; II: Preliminary comments on the problem of resistance; III: Resistance and the defenses
September 16 Facilitated by Clint Burnham
IV: The ego and the other; V: Introduction and reply to Jean Hyppolite’s presentation of Freud’s Verneinung; Hyppolite “A
Spoken Commentary on Freud’s Verneinung (see Appendix); VI: Discourse analysis and ego analysis; Freud
“Negation” [SE XIX 235-9].
September 30 Facilitated by Dave Gaertner
The Topic of the Imaginary VII: The topic of the imaginary; VIII: The wolf! The wolf!
October 14 Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
IX: On Narcissism; X: The two narcissisms; Freud “On Narcissism: An Introduction” [SE XIV 67-102]).
October 28 Facilitated by Alessandra Caperdoni
XI: Ego-ideal and ideal ego; XII: Zeitlich-Entwicklungsgeschichte; Beyond Psychology XIII: The see-saw of desire.
November 11 Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez and Paul Kingsbury
XIV: The fluctuations of the libido; XV: The nucleus of repression; Michael Balint’s Blind Alleys XVI: Preliminary interventions
on Balint; XVII: The object relation and the intersubjective relation.
November 25 Facilitated by Jesse Proudfoot
XVIII: The symbolic order; Speech in the Transference XIX: The creative function of speech; XX: De locutionis significatione.
December 9 Facilitated by Calen Nixon and Paulina Moreno
XXI: Truth emerges from the mistake; XXII: The concept of analysis.
Fall 2007 & Spring 2008
Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Elaborated by Hilda Fernandez and Michael McConkey
September 18
1. Background and Influences. Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
As a result of his time and influences, Lacan orchestrated an epistemic movement in the psychoanalytical field
that centrally claimed a "return to Freud". In this session we will discuss how Lacan’s central aphorism, “The unconscious is
structured as a language,” is taken from the Freudian unconscious and his concept of a social individual that speaks.
Through the Freudian concepts of parapraxes, displacement and condensation we will see how Lacan threads these
concepts through other influences (Saussure) to account for how the human subject establishes a chain of
signifiers/signification in the creation of meaning and in the production of ourselves.
Dor, Joël. Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured as a Language (1997)
Freud, Sigmund. “Introductory Conferences to Analysis. 1st to 4th Conferences: Failed Actions” (1916-1917) The Standard Edition Vol. XV
_______. “New Introductory Conferences to Analysis. 29th Conference: Revision of the Dream Theory” (1933). The Standard Edition Vol. XXII
Lacan, Jacques. “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis” (1953). Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.
Silverman, Kaja. “From Sign to Subject, A Short History.” The Subject of Semiotics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983).
October 2
2. The Three Registers. Facilitated by Paul Kingsbury
In this session we will discuss how the three registers – Real, Imaginary and Symbolic – are inseparably intertwined in any
subjective phenomena.
Brousse, Marie-Hélène. “The Imaginary,” (1996) Reading Seminars I and II: Lacan’s Return to Freud, eds. R. Feldstein, B. Fink, and M. Jaanus. Albany: SUNY Press
Lacan, Jacques. “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis” (1953). Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.
Ragland, Ellie. “An Overview of the Real,” Reading I and II
Soler, Colette. “The Symbolic Order (I and II),” ibid
October 16
3. Early Development: Oedipus Grows Up. Facilitated by Clint Burnham
We will examine one of the earliest Lacanian texts, “The Mirror Stage,” that precedes the theoretical development of the Ego
as a privileged symptom and source of ignorance, which is opposed to truth and knowledge. We also will examine the differences
between Freud and Lacan with respect to the Oedipus concept through the discussion of the famous Freudian case of Little Hans.
Dor, Joël. “The Mirror Stage and the Oedipus Complex,” Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured as a Language” (1997)
Freud, Sigmund. “Analysis of a phobia in a 5-year-old boy” (Case Little Hans) (1909) The Standard Edition Vol. X
Lacan, Jacques. “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function, As Revealed In Psychoanalytic Experience” (1949) Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.
November 13
4. Name of the Father. Facilitated by Michael McConkey
The symbolic register inaugurates the becoming of the human being into a subject. How the signifier “Name of the Father”
inserts the individual in the logic of the law and words and how this subject and its vicissitudes originates (Alienation 1,
Alienation 2, Separation) will be the topic of this session.
Laurent, Éric. “Alienation and Separation” (I and II), Reading XI
Regnault, François. “The Name of the Father,” Reading XI
Verhaighe, Paul. “Causation and Destitution of a Pre-Ontological Non-entity,” Key Concepts.
December 11
5. Desire, Lack, Other. Facilitated by Calen Nixon
Desire shapes our discourse, even though desire is impossible and impelled by a structuring lack. We will review the
process of the subject’s Desire, conformed in language, and how it circulates through the signifier of the Phallus. We will
point out some of the Hegelian influences and discuss the differences between drives, need, demand and desire.
Fink, Bruce. “The Subject and the Other’s Desire,: Reading I and II
Lacan, J. “On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis” (1955) Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.
____ “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” (1960) Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.
Soler, Colette. “The Subject and the Other” (I and II) (1995), Reading XI: Lacan’s Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Albany: SUNY Press.
January 15
6. Drives, Needs, Demands, Desire: Desire is the other’s desire. Facilitated by Sam Semper
Brousse, Marie-Hélène. “The Drive,” (I and II), Reading XI
Dor, Joël. “Need—Desire—Demand,” Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured as a Language” (1997)
February 5
7. Jouissance. Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
Between Anguish and Desire there is Jouissance and the object petit a. Jouissance, a quality, an experience and the
production of any symptom, will be discussed through the lens of Freud’s Ratman case.
Freud, S. “Some Remarks on a Case of Obsessive Neurosis” (Ratman’s case) (1909) The Standard Edition Vol. X
_____, “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920) The Standard Edition Vol. XVIII
Braunstein, Nestor. “Desire and jouissance in the teachings of Lacan," The Cambridge Companion to Lacan (2003)
March 4
8. Fundamental Fantasy: “There is no sexual relationship”. Facilitated by Paulina Moreno
Sex is the fundamental subjective fantasy that keeps the subject questing for an answer that lays in the Real of the body
and its particular entanglement with the word and image. What is that difference between women and men and how do
we produce it? Why does Lacan say that The Woman does not exist but women do?
Fink, Bruce. “There’s No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship,” The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.
Lacan, Jacques. “Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality” (1960) Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.
March 18
9. Diagnosis of Symptom Structure. Facilitated by Jesse Proudfoot
Our symptom is a specific arrangement of jouissance and desire. Lacan’s concept of clinical structure and diagnosis is
different than the psychopathological defintions used in classical psychiatry and psychology. Neurosis (Hysteria,
Obsession, Phobia), Perversion and Psychosis are characterized by the processes of repression, disavowal and foreclosure
respectively. These mechanisms that underlay the symptom must in turn be addressed differently during the treatment.
We will work on the particularities of each structure.
Dor, Joel. “ Diagnosis and Structure,” Clinical Lacan (1997)
Fink, Bruce. “A Lacanian Approach to Diagnosis” Clinical Intro
April 1
10. Diagnosis of Symptom Structure. Facilitated by Jesse Proudfoot and Hilda Fernandez
Miller, Jacques-Alain “On Perversion,” Ibid
Russell Grigg, “From the Mechanism of Psychosis to the Universal Condition of the Symptom: On Foreclosure,” Key Concepts
Soler, Colette “Hysteria and Obsession,” Reading I and II
April 15
11. Dynamic and effectuation of Transference: Psychoanalysis as a clinic of love. Facilitated by Gerard Funk
Transference and its management are the central elements in the psychoanalytical treatment. We will review the concept of
transference since Freud, and how the Lacanian additions, drawn from Plato’s “Banquet,” situates transference and its
reenactment in the clinical act as a new erotology.
Freud, Sigmund. “Introductory Conferences to Analysis. 27th Conference: Transference (1916-1917) The Standard Edition Vol. XVI.
_____, “Observations on Transferential Love” (1915) The Standard Edition Vol. XII.
Klotz, Jean-Pierre. “The Passionate Dimension of Transference,” Reading XI
Lacan, Jacques. “The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power” (1958) Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.
April 29
11. Psychoanalytic setting.
Is there a technique in psychoanalysis? What are the core aspects of it? How does the analyst’s style come to life? We
will discuss time in analysis as a punctuating strategy and the logic behind the “infamous” variable length time session.
Lacan, Jacques. “The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power” (1958) Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.
_______ “The logic time and the assertion of the anticipated certitude” (1945)
Miller, Jacques-Alain. “An Introduction to Lacan’s Clinical Perspective,” Reading I and II.
Samuels, Robert. “From Freud to Lacan: A Question of Technique,” Ibid
May 13
12. A new ethic: Position of the analyst before knowledge and truth. Facilitated by Clint Burnham
Psychoanalysis is a theory that was born primordially to support the practice of a therapy. What cures? What allows
people to “pass to another thing”? We will review the timing of treatment, the role of knowledge and the production of truth in
the clinical act, as well as the indispensable ethical position of an analyst by the emergence of his/her desire of analysis.
The question of what is transmitted in the analytical act will shape the discussion on the psychoanalytical training, and
what Lacan said about it.
Lacan, J. Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (1953)
_____, “Science and Truth” (1965) Écrits
Safouan, Moustafa. Jacques Lacan and the Question of Psycho-analytic training (2000)
May 27
13. The Cure. Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
What happens at the end of analysis and what enables its termination? We will discuss the end of analysis from the
Freudian perspective to the Lacanian advances around this problem. Some themes to review will be the dialectization of
desire, the need to traverse the fundamental fantasy and the process of owning desire.
Dunand, Anne. “The End of Analysis” (I and II), Reading XI
Freud, Sigmund. “Analysis Terminable and Interminable” (1937) The Standard Edition Vol. XXIII.
Fink, Bruce “From Desire to Jouissance,” Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
Lacan, Jacques. “On the Subject Finally Questioned” (1953) Écrits. Translated by B. Fink.