The Lacan Circle Reading Group
Jacques Lacan, Seminar VI
Desire and Its Interpretation
Convened by Eugénie Austin
We are currently at: “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 296
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
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Wednesdays 7:00pm – 8:30pm Melbourne time
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The recording of our most recent session is here
“We must take this rendezvous with death as our point of departure.”
Wednesday 13 November, pp 291 – 298
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:
Desire in Dreams
The Object of Desire
The Dream about the Dead Father
Desire’s Phallic Mediation
The Child is Being Beaten Fantasy
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The Mother’s Desire
The Graph of Desire
Mourning and Desire
There is no Other of the Other
The Fundamental Fantasy
Perverse Fantasies
The Dialectic of Desire in Neurosis
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
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Lacan Circle Reading Group: Desire
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