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