Registrations Are Open!

Lacan Circle of Australia Seminar

The Lacanian Object

Presented by Serena Smith

10 February – 9 June
Five Tuesdays 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Melbourne time AEDT (UTC+11)
The Lacan Circle Rooms, Brunswick.

In-person, online, & recorded.
Register below.

In Seminar XI Lacan insists that ‘man thinks with his object’. What exactly does Lacan mean by this?

Across the course of the seminar we will consider this comment and explore the invention of the objet a in Seminar X and what came before this purely Lacanian idea.

The seminar teases out the early formulations of the object examining it in its imaginary, symbolic and real dimensions.

We will meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 7pm to 9pm.

These seminars will run over both semesters, but enrollment will be separate for each semester.

Schedule:
Semester One

Week 1: Tuesday, 10 February
Week 2: Tuesday, 10 March
Week 3: Tuesday, 14 April
Week 4: Tuesday, 12 May
Week 5: Tuesday, 9 June

Serena Smith has been a student and practitioner of psychoanalysis for the last forty years, and she has taught in various programs of psychoanalytic study across the last twenty years. She has an active research interest in the Lacanian object, the symptom and clinical work with children and adolescents. Serena practices psychoanalysis in Melbourne.

Location

Melbourne: The Lacan Circle Rooms
Unit 4 / Nine Wilson Avenue, Brunswick.
(Entry via rear alley, off Black St)
3 hour free parking @ Barkly Square Carpark

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. Supplementary readings will be made available in the seminar’s Google drive & Discord server.

Attendees in Melbourne are encouraged to attend in person.