Activities
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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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…
