Activities
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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Fall 2015 Schedule
Desire and its Interpretation By Jacques Lacan Seminar VI September 8 Seminar 20 (13.5.59) The Fundamental Phantasm Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez September 22 Seminar 21 (20.5.59) The Form of the Cut Facilitator: Alma Krilic October 6 Seminar 22 (27.5.59) Cut and Phantasm Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa October 20 Seminar 23 (3.6.59) The Function of the Subjective Feint Facilitator: Clint Burnham November 3 Seminar 24 (10.6.59) The Neurotic’s Dialectic of Desire Facilitator: Désirée Jung…
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Summer 2014 / Lacan Salon Reading Group
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,…
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Fall 2013 / Spring 2014 Schedule
Anxiety, Seminar X, by Jacques Lacan September 3 Seminar 1 (14 Nov/62), pp. 2-12 Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez. ALSO Freud Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety (1926) SE XX September 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 October 15 Seminar 4 (5 Dec/62), pp. 36-47 Facilitator: Clint Burnham October 29 Seminar 5 (12 Dec/62), pp. 48-61 Facilitator: Alma…
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Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Schedule
September 4 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 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: Désirée Jung ALSO Freud, ” On The History Of The Psychoanalytic…
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Summer 2012 / Lacan Salon Reading Group
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?…
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Summer 2011 / Lacan Salon Reading Group
Introduction to the Reading of Hegel Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit by Alexandre Kojeve 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…
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Fall 2011 / Spring 2012 Schedule
Fall 2011 / Seminar II (1954-55) by Jacques Lacan The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis Sept 6 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…
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Fall 2010 / Spring 2011 Schedule
By Jacques Lacan The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 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…
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Summer 2010 / Lacan Salon Reading Group
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 3rd: Territorial Representation, The Barbarian Despotic Machine, Barbarian or Imperial Representation, The Urstaat (39 pages) July 6th: A Materialist Psychiatry, The Machines, The Whole and its Parts. July 10th: The Civilized Capitalist Machine, Capitalist Representation, Oedipus…
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Fall 2009 / Spring 2010 Schedule
Fall 2009 / Seminar XVII By Jacques Lacan 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…
