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 on Wednesday 30 July 2025. The recording of the session is available here.
The NEW Lacan Circle Reading Group commenced on 13 August, reading Lacan’s Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. The details are here
The recording of our first session on DESIRE 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
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