Autumn Meeting Dates - The Psychoses

In line with our aim to race through Lacan's seminar on The Psychoses (1955-1956) this autumn, please see below for chapter titles and dates of the weekly meetings.

All sessions will take place in Laurie Grove Baths Rm G3 and further notices will be posted on this blog in case of date or room changes.

05/10
I: introduction to the question of psychoses
II: the meaning of delusion

12/10
III: the Other and psychosis
IV: "I've just been to the butcher's"

19/10
V: On a God who does not deceive and one who does
VI: The psychotic phenomenon and its mechanism

26/10
VII: The imaginary dissolution
VIII: The symbolic sentence

02/11
*No Reading Group*

9/11
IX: On nonsense and the structure of God
X: On the signifier in the real and the bellowing-miracle

16/11
XI: On the rejection of a primordial signifier

23/11
*Ecrits reading*
'Kant avec Sade'

Psychoanalysis and German Idealism

In this video we could hear three different perspective on the relation between psychoanalysis and German Idealism by Zizek, Alenka Zupancic and Mladen Dolar. I personally liked Dolar presentation. He talked about awakening and its relation to the experience of modernity was novel and thought provoking. In establishing the relation, Kafka' Metamorphosis played a role which was new to an admirer of Kafka like me. Hope you enjoy it!

http://youtu.be/lm_QlzuKKco

Next Meeting - 05/10 - The Psychoses

This autumn Goldsmith's Lacan reading group will enter its third year. It's open to everyone - staff, students, and members of the public - and will run every Friday from 2-4 in Laurie Grove baths, room G3.

 

We'll be attempting to race through one of Lacan's seminar's each term, starting with Seminar III: 'the psychoses' and moving forward after Christmas.

 

The first session will take place this Friday the 5th of October, and we'll be discussing the first two chapters of the seminar 'introduction to the question of psychoses' and 'the meaning of delusion' (up to p29).