Lacan Circle Reading Group

Desire and Its Interpretation

 

 

 

 

The Lacan Circle Reading Group

 

Jacques Lacan, Seminar VI

Desire and Its Interpretation

 

Convened by Eugénie Austin

 

This group read the final passages of Seminar VI, Desire, today. The recording of the session is available here.

The NEW Lacan Circle Reading Group will commence on 13 August, reading Lacan’s Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Register here for the ETHICS Zoom details.

 

The recording of our first session is here
Wednesday 13 March 2024, pp 4 – 6
Introduction to the Seminar

 

Lacan’s Seminar VI, Desire, includes discussions on:

The Object of Desire
The Mother’s Desire
The Graph of Desire
Perverse Fantasies
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Desire’s Phallic Mediation
The Dream about the Dead Father
The Child is Being Beaten Fantasy
The Dialectic of Desire in Neurosis
There is no Other of the Other
The Fundamental Fantasy
Mourning and Desire
Towards Sublimation

 

Our text was the English edition of Desire and Its Interpretation, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI, 1958 – 1959, edited by Jacques-Alain Miller, translated by Bruce Fink and published by Polity Press in 2019

 

 

Contact the convenor Eugénie Austin with any queries

Register  here for the new Seminar VII Reading Group, commencing on 13 August

 

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