Seminar XVI – From an Other to the other – Lacan Circle of Australia

Continues this Saturday!

Lacan Circle of Australia Seminar

Jacques Lacan’s Seminar XVI:
From an Other to the other

Co-taught by Ellen Smith, Kate Briggs, David Ferarro, and Serena Smith

Ten Saturdays 10:00am – 12:00pm
Melbourne time AEDT UTC + 11
The Nicholas Building, Melbourne
In person, on Zoom & recorded.

Lacan’s Seminar XVI: From an Other to the other was released in English translation in 2024. Our seminar will address Lacan’s formulation and development of clinical concepts especially with respect to perversion and anxiety; sublimation; the changing nature of satisfaction under capitalism and the notion of surplus jouissance; the status of science and knowledge in relation to psychoanalysis; the place of discourse, the signifier and the big Other.

Schedule

Week 1: Saturday 15 March
Presented by Ellen Smith
From Surplus Value to Surplus Jouissance.

Week 2: Saturday 22 March
Presented by Ellen Smith
The Knowledge Market and Truth on Strike.

Week 3: Saturday 29 March
Presented by Ellen Smith
Topology of the Other and Facts and What is Said.

Week 4: Saturday 5 April
Presented by David Ferraro
Structure, totality and rupture

Week 5: Saturday 12 April
Presented by Kate Briggs
“The Freud Event”, Jouissance Posited as an Absolute

EASTER BREAK (19 April )

Week 6: Saturday 26 April
Presented by Kate Briggs
The Two Sides of Sublimation, High Fever

Week 7: Saturday 3 May
Presented by Serena Smith
Structures of Perversion

Week 8: Saturday 10 May
Presented by Serena Smith
Structures of Perversion (cont.) and Thought as Censorship

Week 9: Saturday 17 May
Presented by David Ferraro
The Oedipal constellation and the turning plate

Week 10: Saturday 24 May
Presented by David Ferarro
Perversion as structure, and structure through perversion

Our seminar program this year includes study of two seminars that have been, or will soon be, released in authorised English translation for the first time.

Semester one we will be discussing Seminar XVI: From an Other to the other and Semester two, Seminar XII: Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis.

We look forward to seeing you there

Location:

Melbourne: Room 919, The Nicholas Building
37 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Online: All sessions are streamed live on Zoom, recorded, and will be available for the duration of the semester.
Zoom info will be available after registration.

Attendees in Melbourne are encouraged to attend in person.

This is not an introductory seminar though will be taught so as to be accessible to people
who are relatively new to Lacanian psychoanalysis.