Fall 2014 / Spring 2015 Schedule

Desire and its Interpretation

By Jacques Lacan

Seminar VI

September 9

Annual General Meeting 

September 23

Seminar 1 (12.11.58)

Construction of the Graph

Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa

October 7

Seminar 2 (19.11.58)  

Explicatory Supplement

Facilitator: Alessandra Caperdoni

October 21

Seminar 3 (26.11.58)

The Dream of the Dead Father : “He didn’t know that he was dead…”

Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury

Supplementary reading: “The Unconscious”, Freud (1915)

November 4

Seminar 4 (3.12.58)

 Little Anna’s Dream

Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez

November 18

Seminar 5 (10.12.58)

The Dream of the Dead Father: As He Wishes 

Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez  

December 2

 Seminar 6 (17.12.58)

 Introduction to the Object of Desire

Facilitator:  Wayne Wapeemukwa (virtual facilitation)

 December 16: Seminar 7 (7.1.59)

The Phallic Mediation of Desire

Supplementary reading:

Freud’s Negation

Alenka Zupancic Not-Mother: On Freud’s Verneinung

Facilitator: Alma Krilic

Spring 2015

Jan. 6: Seminar 8 (14.1.59)

The Message of the Little Cough

Facilitator: Ted Byrne

Supplementary reading Seminars 8-12:

Dream Analysis, Ella Sharpe (1937), esp. Chapter 5        

Jan. 20: Seminar 9 (21.1.59)

The Phantasm of the Barking Dog

Facilitator: Ted Byrne

Feb. 3:  Seminar 10 (28.1.59)

The Image of the Inside Out Glove

Facilitator: Chris Dzierzawa

Feb. 17: Presentation by Russell Grigg from the Lacan Circle of Melbourne (virtual facilitation)

              Desire in Mourning and Melancholia

Supplementary reading:

Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917)

Mar. 3: Seminar 11 (4.2.59)

The Sacrifice of the Taboo Woman 

Seminar 12 (11.2.59)

The Laughter of the Immortal Gods

Facilitator: Desiree Jung

Mar. 17: Seminar 13 (4.3.59)

The Impossible Act

Facilitator: Ted Byrne

Mar. 31: Seminar 14 (11.3.59)

The Desire Trap

Facilitator: Ted Byrne

Supplementary Reading Seminars 13-19:   

Hamlet, Shakespeare

“Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet,” Lacan, in Literature and Psychoanalysis ed. Shoshana Felman (1982) 

Hamlet & Oedipus, Ernest Jones (1954) 

Apr. 14: Seminar 15 (18.3.59)

The Desire of the Mother 

Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni

Apr. 28:  Seminar 16 (8.4.59)

There is no Other of the Other

Facilitator: Alma Krilic

May 12: Seminar 17 (15.4.59)

The Ophelia Object

Facilitator: Alessandra Capperdoni

May 26: Seminar 18 (22.4.59)

Mourning and Desire

Facilitator: David Ferraro from Lacan Circle of Melbourne (virtual facilitation)

June 9: Seminar 19 (29.4.59)

Phallophanies

Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez