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 of the imaginary; VIII: The wolf! The wolf!
October 14
Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
IX: On Narcissism; X: The two narcissisms; Freud “On Narcissism: An Introduction” [SE XIV 67-102]).
October 28
Facilitated by Alessandra Caperdoni
XI: Ego-ideal and ideal ego; XII: Zeitlich-Entwicklungsgeschichte; Beyond Psychology XIII: The see-saw of desire.
November 11
Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez and Paul Kingsbury
XIV: The fluctuations of the libido; XV: The nucleus of repression; Michael Balint’s Blind Alleys XVI: Preliminary interventions
on Balint; XVII: The object relation and the intersubjective relation.
November 25
Facilitated by Jesse Proudfoot
XVIII: The symbolic order; Speech in the Transference XIX: The creative function of speech; XX: De locutionis significatione.
December 9
Facilitated by Calen Nixon and Paulina Moreno
XXI: Truth emerges from the mistake; XXII: The concept of analysis.
Spring 2009
The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964–65)
By Jacques Lacan
Seminar XI
January 6
Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez
Context by Hilda Fernandez; Chapter I: Excommunication.
January 20
Facilitated by Janet Oakes
The Unconscious and Repetition: II: The Freudian Unconscious and Ours, III: Of the Subject of Uncertainty.
Freud’s Reading “On the Psychology of the Dream Process” (1900) (Presented by Ofelia Ros)
February 3
Facilitated by Calen Nixon and Paulina Moreno
IV: Of the Network of Signifiers, V: Tuché and Automaton.
Freud’s Reading “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920) and “Letter 52 to Fliess” (presented by Jesse Proudfoot).
February 17
Facilitated by Niall Man and Nazie Naraghi
Of the Gaze as Objet petit a: VI: The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze, VII Anamorphosis.
Merleau Ponty’s Reading Part II of Phenomenology of Perception (presented by Niall Mann).
VIII: The Line and the Light, IX What is a picture?.
March 3
Facilitated by Niall Mann
March 31
Facilitated by Ofelia Ros
March 17
Facilitated by Jason Starnes
April 02
The Transference and the Drive: X: Presence of the Analyst, XI: Analysis and Truth or the Closure of the Unconscious.
Freud’s Reading “Remembering, Repeating, Working Through” (1914) (presented by Hilda Fernandez).
XII: Sexuality in the Defiles of the Signifier, XIII: The Deconstruction of the Drive.
Freud’s Reading “Instincts and Its Vicissitudes” (1915) (presented by Marc Acherman).
April 14
Facilitated by Paul Kingsbury
XIV: The Partial Drive and its Circuit, XV: From Love to Libido.
April 28
Facilitated by Dave Gaertner
The Field of the Other and Back to the Transference: XVI: The Subject and the Other: Alienation, XVII: The Subject and
the Other: Aphanisis.
May 12
Facilitated by Clint Burnham
XVIII: Of the Subject Supposed to Know, of the first Dyad and of the Good, IXX: From Interpretation to the Transference.
Freud’s Reading “Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego” (1921) (presented by Jon Smith).
May 26
Facilitated by Nancy Gillespie
To Conclude: XX: In you more than you.
