Spring Meeting Dates - The Psychoses

This Spring term the reading group will be meeting every two weeks, from 2:00 - 4:00 on a Friday, in Laurie Grove Baths G3.

In addition to discussions arising from the text, every month one session will be introduced by a presentation by one of the group members on a related theme.

As always, everyone is welcome. 


01/02
XII: The hysteric's question

15/02
XIII The hysteric's question (II): What is a woman?

01/03
XIV: The signifier, as such, signifies nothing

15/03
XV: On primordial signifiers and the lack of one

Thursday 28/03 (Friday is a bank holiday)
XVI: Secretaries to the insane

12/04
XVII: Metaphor and metonymy (I): "His sheaf was neither miserly nor spiteful"

26/04
XVIII Metaphor and metonymy (II): Signifying articulation and transference of the signified

10/05
XIX: An address: Freud in the century

24/05
XX: The appeal, the allusion

07/06
XXI: The quilting point

21/06
XXII: "Thou art the one who wilt follow me"

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'

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).

Next Meeting - 30/08 - Direction of The Treatment, Part II

On Thursday 30th August, we'll be continuing with 'The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power', reading up to section IV: 'How to Act with One's Being' on p. 512. Laurie Grove Baths G1, 4-6 p.m.

Next Meeting - 22/08 - Direction of the Treatment

On Wednesday we'll be taking the first 14 pages of 'The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of Its Power' (sections I and II), which can be found in Ecrits (trans. Bruce Fink). Laurie Grove Baths G1, 4-6.

Next Meeting - 12/08 - Position of the Unconscious

This Sunday we'll be ploughing our way through another of Lacan's Ecrits from the mid 60s. Meet in Laurie Grove Baths, G1 from 4-6. You can read or download 'Position of the Unconscious' here on Scribd.

Next Meeting - 24/07 - Suture (elements of the logic of the signifier)

As a compliment to last week's reading, next Tuesday we'll be looking at an essay by Jacques Alain-Miller entitled 'Suture (elements of the logic of the signifier)'. Miller's text appeared alongside 'Science and Truth' in the first issue of the Cahiers pour l'Analyse, a landmark journal in the history of French thought (soon to be re-published in edited book form by Verso).

A translation of Miller's text can be found on the Lacanian Ink website, and a synopsis, as well as the original french version can be found on the Kingston University Cahiers project website.

As usual, we'll be meeting in Laurie Grove Baths, G1, from 3-5.

Next Meeting - 16/07 - Science and Truth

From 3-5 on the 16th July we will be discussing 'Science and Truth', in Ecrits (trans. Bruce Fink). The venue will be Laurie Grove Baths, G1. All welcome

Next Meeting - 28/03 - The Subversion of the Subject

This Wednesday from 4 - 6 we will be discussing Lacan's ecrit entitled 'The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious.' It's a notoriously tricky text, so it was decided that we would split the reading into two halves of roughly 15 pages each. In the Fink translation this takes us up to p. 684, just before the second 'graph of desire'. The venue has changed to G1 in Laurie Grove Baths - first door on the right as you enter the building.

Next Meeting - 15/03 - Female Sexuality

The next Lacan reading group will take place this Thursday (the 15th of march) from 4 - 6 in Warmington Tower - Room 1204. As agreed last time, we will be looking at the essay 'Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Female Sexuality', available in The Ecrits (trans. Bruce Fink), or here on Scribd. All welcome.