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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…
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Summer 2014 / Lacan Salon Reading Group
Life and Death in Psychoanalysis by Jean Laplanche Most critics have come to terms with the contradictions in Freud’s work by attempting to impose a unified system even at the cost of rejecting crucial metapsychological concepts such as the death wish. According to Jean Laplanche, “such variations or variants deserve better than a choice in favor of one or the other: they require an interpretation and such an interpretation implies that,…
