Lacan Circle of Australia Seminar
Psychosis and Lacan’s Seminar III
Presented by Russell Grigg
“What is refused in the symbolic order re-emerges in the real.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar III, The Psychoses, 1955-1956
This seminar has concluded
The underlying issue of this seminar, crucial for any psychoanalyst, is the difference between psychosis and neurosis. We explored this issue through Lacan’s groundbreaking teaching on this question as it was laid out in the third year of his Seminar in 1956-1957. Here, he demonstrated that the difference is structural and derives from two separate mechanisms: repression for neurosis and foreclosure for psychosis. Exploring the implications of this discovery, with a focus on issues in psychosis, was the thread running through the work during this semester; but our studies also covered a number of key, indeed canonical, concepts of Lacan’s teaching that Lacan introduced in this Seminar. The seminar was both for the beginner and the more advanced student of Lacan.
We read from the official English translation of Seminar III
Jacques Lacan, The Psychoses, The Seminar, Book III, 1955-1956
Edited by Jacques-Alain Miller and translated with notes by Russell Grigg
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
Available here or here
Supplementary readings are available in a Google drive
Russell Grigg PhD studied and lectured in the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris VIII. He is a member of the Lacan Circle of Australia, the École de la Cause freudienne, the New Lacanian School, and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. Russell is the translator of Lacan’s Seminar III.
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