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
