Lacan Circle Reading Group

The Lacan Circle Reading Group

Jacques Lacan, Seminar VI

Desire and Its Interpretation

Convened by Eugénie Austin

PLEASE NOTE:
There will be no meeting next Wednesday 25 December
Happy Christmas to all!

“This is the big secret of psychoanalysis, if I may say so myself. The big secret is that there is no (big) Other of the (big) Other.” page 298

This Reading Group is casual, continuous, and open to all
No prior knowledge is assumed; we read out-loud and line-by-line
We record each meeting, and the most recent session is viewable for one week
Request the permanent meeting link below to join us whenever you wish
Wednesdays 7:00pm – 8:30pm Melbourne time
Check your local start time here

The recording of our most recent session is here
Wednesday 18 December, pp 321 – 327
For Hamlet, the only time is his own time and there is also but one time: the moment of his downfall

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

The themes of Seminar VI include:

Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Object of Desire
The Mother’s Desire
The Graph of Desire
Perverse Fantasies
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 is 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. It is available everywhere including from Readings here and Amazon here.

Contact the convenor Eugénie Austin with any queries