Fall 2021 Schedule
We will be back to in-person Salon sessions every other Tuesday (7pm-9pm)
SFU Woodwards 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC
Room 2205
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
September 7 Reading: PART ONE - Theorizing the Lack of Object
Chapter I “Introduction” (21 Nov. 1956), pgs 3-17
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September 21
Reading: Chapter II “The Three Forms of the Lack of Object” (28 Nov. 1956), pgs. 18-32
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October 5
Reading: Chapter III “The Signifier and the Holy Spirit” (5 Dec. 1956), pgs. 33-50
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October 19
Reading: Chapter IV “The Dialectic of Frustration” (12 Dec. 1956), pgs. 51-67
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November 2
Reading: Chapter V “On Analysis as Bundling and the Consequences Thereof” (19 Dec. 1956), pgs. 68-84
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November 16 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
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November 30
Reading: Chapter VII “A Child is being Beaten and the Young Homosexual Woman” (16 Jan. 1957), pgs. 103-122
AND Chapter VIII “Dora and the Young Homosexual Woman” (23 Jan. 1957), pgs. 123-139
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December 14 Reading: PART THREE - The Fetish Object
Chapter IX “The Function of the Veil” (30 Jan. 1957), pgs. 143-156
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Winter and Spring 2022
January 4
Reading: Chapter X “Identification with the Phallus” (6 Feb. 1957), pgs. 157-170
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January 18
Reading: Chapter XI “The Phallus and the Unfulfilled Mother” (27 Feb. 1957), pgs. 171-188
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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
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February 15
Reading: Chapter XIII “On the Castration Complex” (13 Mar. 1957), pgs. 207-223
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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
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March 15
Reading: Chapter XVI “How Myth is Analysed” (3 Apr. 1957), pgs. 261-277
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March 29
Reading: Chapter XVII “The Signifier and Der Witz” (10 Apr. 1957), pgs. 278-294
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April 12
Reading: Chapter XVIII “Circuits” (8 May 1957), pgs. 295-309
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April 26
Reading: Chapter XIX “Permutations” (15 May 1957), pgs. 310-326
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May 10
Reading: Chapter XX “Transformations” (22 May 1957), pgs. 327-343
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May 24
Reading: Chapter XXI “The Mother’s Drawers and the Father’s Shortcoming” (5 June 1957), pgs. 344-361
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June 7
Reading: Chapter XXII, “An Essay in Rubber-Sheet Logic” (19 June 1957), pgs. 362-379
AND Chapter XXIII “Me donnera sans femme une progeniture” (26 June 1957), pgs. 380-400
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June 21
Reading: FAREWELL - Chapter XXIV “From Hans-the-Fetish to Leonardo-in-the-Mirror” (3 July 1957) pgs. 403-426
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Farewell
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