Activities
A variety of meetings the Lacan Salon offers weekly.
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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…
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Fall 2008 / Spring 2009
Freud’s Papers on Technique (1953–54) By Jacques Lacan Seminar I September 2 Facilitated by Clint Burnham 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…
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Fall 2007 / Spring 2008
Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis Elaborated by Hilda Fernandez and Michael McConkey September 18 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…
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Winter / Spring 2018 Schedule
Joyce and the Sinthome (1975-1976) By Jacques Lacan Seminar XXIII In english, here, or by Comarc Gallagher, part 1, here, and part 2, here. In French, here. 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…
