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.

Events - Autumn - CFAR Public Seminars

The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research here in London have recently uploaded their programme for this Autumn's public seminars. Loosely taking the question of time in Freud and Lacan as their starting point, the seminars will run every Saturday from September the 29th to December the 8th. More information can be found of the CFAR website.

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