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Fall 2018 / Spring 2019
Formations of the Unconscious (1957-1958)
by Jacques Lacan
Seminar V
In English, by Jacques-Alain Miller, here, or by Cormac Gallagher, here.
In French, by Jacques-Alain Miller, here, or here.
Formations of the Unconscious
1. THE FREUDIAN STRUCTURES OF WIT
September 4, 2018
I. The Famillionaire / 6November 1957
Faciltator: Paul Kingsbury
September 18
II. The Fat-millionaire / 13 November 1957
Faciltator: Oliver Keane
October 2
III. The Miglionaire / 20 November 1957
Faciltator: Vivi Djadja
October 16
IV. The Golden Calf / 27 November 1957
Faciltator: Lucas Pohl
V. A Bit-of-Sense and the Step-of-Sense / 4 December 1957
Faciltator: Lucas Pohl
October 30
VI. Whoah, Neddy! / 11 December 1957
Faciltator: Leigh Tennant
November 13
VII. Une Femme de Non-Recevoir, or: A Flat Refusal / 18 December 1957
Faciltator: Alessandra Capperdoni
2. THE LOGIC OF CASTRATION
November 27
VIII. Foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father / 8 January 1958
Faciltator: Alessandra Capperdoni
IX. The Paternal Metaphor / 15 January 1958
Faciltator: Alessandra Capperdoni
December 11
X. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (I) / 22 January 1958
Faciltator: Ted Byrne
XI. The Three Moments of the Oedipus Complex (II) / 29 January 1958
Faciltator: Ted Byrne
January 8 2019
XII. From Image to Signifier in Pleasure and in Reality / 5 February 1958
Faciltator: Alex Macqueen
January 22
XIII. Fantasy, Beyond the Pleasure Principle / 12 February 1958
Faciltator: Clint Burnham
3. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PHALLUS
February 5
XIV. Desire and Jouissance / 5 March 1958
Faciltator: Alma Krilic
February 19
XV. The Girl and the Phallus / 12 March 1958
Faciltator: Hilda Fernandez
March 5
XVI. Insignias of the Ideal / 19 March 1958
Group discussion
XVII. The Formulas of Desire / 26 March 1958
Group discussion
March 19
XVIII. Symptoms and Their Masks /
Faciltator: Alois Sieben
April 2
XIX. Signifier, Bar and Phallus / 23 April 1958
Faciltator: Sanem Guvenc-Salgirli
4. THE DIALECTIVE OF DESIRE AND DEMAND IN THE CLINICAL STUDY AND TREATMENT OF THE NEUROSES
April 16
XX. The Dream by the Butcher’s Beautiful Wife / 9 April 1958
Faciltator: Alois Sieben
XXI. The ‘Still Waters Run Deep’ Dreams / 7 May 1958
Faciltator: Alex Macqueen
April 30
XXII. The Other’s Desire / 14 May 1958
Faciltator: Leigh Tennant
XXIII. The Obsessional and his Desire / 21 May 1958
Faciltator: Leigh Tennant
May 14
XXIV. Transference and Suggestion / 4 June 1958
Faciltator: Clint Burnham
May 28
XXV. The Signification of the Phallus in the Treatment / 11 June 1958
Faciltator: Hilda Fernandez
June 11
XXVI. The Circuits of Desire / 18 June 1958
Faciltator: Chris Dzierzawa
XXVII. Exiting via the Symptom / 25 June 1958
Faciltator: Chris Dzierzawa
June 25
XXVIII. You Are the One You Hate / 2 July 1958
Faciltator: Paul Kingsbury
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