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    Fall 2012 / Spring 2013 Schedule

    September 4 The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytical Experience  (1949) pp 75-81; Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis (1948) pp 82-101; ALSO Freud, “On Narcissism” (1914) SE XIV (pp 69-102) Facilitated by Hilda Fernandez  September 19 “The Freudian Thing, or the Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis,” in Jacques Lacan, Écrits, trans. Bruce Fink, pp 334-363/401-436.* Facilitator: Désirée Jung ALSO Freud, ” On The History Of The Psychoanalytic…

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    Summer 2012 / Lacan Salon Reading Group

    Žižek reading group Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism Venue: Access Gallery 222 E Georgia 7-9 pm Tuesdays July 3 Introduction, Part I: The Drink Before; Chapter 1 Vacillating the Semblances, Chapter 2 Where There is Nothing, Read that I love you (pp 1-135) July 10  Chapt 3 Fichte’s Choice, Part II: The Thing Itself: Hegel; Chapt 4 Is it still possible to be a Hegelian today?…

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    Interrogating the Nature of Contemporary Social Bonds with the Psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan

    A lecture and two seminars by Dr. Benjamin Mayer-Foulkes (Psychoanalyst and Founding director of 17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico) December 5, 2012 7-9 pm SFU Harbour Centre. Room 7000 Lecture: “Towards a Lacanian Analytic of Contemporary Social Bonds” On the basis of a reappraisal of Jacques Lacan’s doctrine of the Four discourses, as developed in Seminar XVII, this lecture proposes to interrogate the nature of contemporary social bonds in the wake of…