Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 Schedule

Fall 2021 / Seminar IV by Jacques Lacan

The Object Relation

Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller

Translated by A. R. Price

Wiley, 2021

The French version of Seminar IV: Here

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

September 21

Reading: Chapter II “The Three Forms of the Lack of Object” (28 Nov. 1956), pgs. 18-32

October 5

Reading: Chapter III “The Signifier and the Holy Spirit” (5 Dec. 1956), pgs. 33-50

October 19

Reading: Chapter IV “The Dialectic of Frustration” (12 Dec. 1956), pgs. 51-67

November 2

Reading: Chapter V “On Analysis as Bundling and the Consequences Thereof” (19 Dec. 1956), pgs. 68-84

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

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

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: Désirée 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