Philadelphia Lacan Study Group

HEARSAY HERESY: Reading R. S. I

Seminar XXII of Jacques Lacan, 1974-1975

After 1972, Lacan turned his attention to the topology of knots. This seminar is a turning-point because it systematically introduces the Borromean knot. This knot links the three registers of the Symbolic, the Real, and the Imaginary in such a manner that if one ring is cut, the other two are free. Such a knot can change shape but it always retains its properties. This seminar explains that mental and bodily life function topologically, that is according to a logic of jouissance, a libidinized meaning that materializes language. Desire, fantasy and partial drives are shown to be functions of it. Lacan’s theory of knots is not a metaphor, but an accurate way of understanding the subject, and for instance, the topology of knots has direct consequences on the clinic. This is also the seminar in which Lacan announces that Marx and not Freud invented the symptom. The far-reaching clinical and political consequences of this statement will be explored in our discussions.

Meetings are open to everyone interested. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 202, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend THE ART OF MADNESS that will be held at Fordham University in New York City, April 27-29, 2012, and the study weekend LACAN’S SEMINAR 22, 23-24 June 2012, in Dublin, Ireland, for information http://www.apwonline.org

Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups and The Philadelphia Lacan Study Group cordially invite you to:
The Art of Madness
A Study Weekend in New York City
April 27 – 29, 2012 Fordham University
Fordham University, Lincoln Center, 60th Street and Columbus Ave, MacMahon Hall, Room 109.

Madness—a term reintroduced in our times as if it were sorely needed—is not merely a doubling of the coldly clinical psychosis. While clearly-diagnosed psychosis is sequestered in hospitals or is nowadays more often contained and controlled in a private regimen of prescriptions and pills, madness is more public, more fluid, more threatening. It is measured only against the social order that somehow always fails to exclude it. It crops up everywhere. Few of us are psychotic, but we all feel at times that we may be a bit mad. If madness is a disturbance in the social, a social disorder that we fear, how strange, then, that one of its products should be art, offered up to the public as if to put madness on display. How strange that the social order accepts and accommodates the art of madness and the madness of art. Our study days will consider this strangeness.

Scheduled to speak:
Richard Boothby, Nestor Braunstein, Shanna Carlson, Fred Casale, Marilyn Charles, Dan Collins, Olga Cox-Cameron, Guy Dana, Todd Dean, Martine Fourré, Michael Garfinkle, Patricia Gherovici, Martin Harries, Reine Henaff-Cohen, Shannon Kelly, Juliet MacCannell, Paola Mieli, Genevieve Morel, Chrysanthi Nigianni, Dany Nobus, Ray O’Neill, Jean-Michel Rabate, Tom Ratekin, Bill Richardson, Ed Robins, Mark Stafford, Manya Steinkoler, Barbara Tholfsen, Jamieson Webster, Stephen Whitworth, Angela Woods.

For information and registration visit www.apwonline.org.

HEARSAY HERESY: Reading R. S. I

Seminar XXII of Jacques Lacan, 1974-1975

After 1972, Lacan turned his attention to the topology of knots. This seminar is a turning-point because it systematically introduces the Borromean knot. This knot links the three registers of the Symbolic, the Real, and the Imaginary in such a manner that if one ring is cut, the other two are free. Such a knot can change shape but it always retains its properties. This seminar explains that mental and bodily life function topologically, that is according to a logic of jouissance, a libidinized meaning that materializes language. Desire, fantasy and partial drives are shown to be functions of it. Lacan’s theory of knots is not a metaphor, but an accurate way of understanding the subject, and for instance, the topology of knots has direct consequences on the clinic. This is also the seminar in which Lacan announces that Marx and not Freud invented the symptom. The far-reaching clinical and political consequences of this statement will be explored in our discussions.

Meetings are open to everyone interested. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 202, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend THE ART OF MADNESS that will be held at Fordham University in New York City, April 27-29, 2012, and the study weekend LACAN’S SEMINAR 22, 23-24 June 2012, in Dublin, Ireland, for information http://www.apwonline.org

HEARSAY HERESY: Reading R. S. I

Seminar XXII of Jacques Lacan, 1974-1975

After 1972, Lacan turned his attention to the topology of knots. This seminar is a turning-point because it isystematically introduces the Borromean knot. This knot links the three registers of the Symbolic, the Real, and the Imaginary in such a manner that if one ring is cut, the other two are free. Such a knot can change shape but it always retains its properties. This seminar explains that mental and bodily life function topologically, that is according to a logic of jouissance, a libidinized meaning that materializes language. Desire, fantasy and partial drives are shown to be functions of it. Lacan’s theory of knots is not a metaphor, but an accurate way of understanding the subject, and for instance, the topology of knots has direct consequences on the clinic. This is also the seminar in which Lacan announces that Marx and not Freud invented the symptom. The far-reaching clinical and political consequences of this statement will be explored in our discussions.

Meetings are open to everyone interested. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 202, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend THE ART OF MADNESS that will be held at Fordham University in New York City, April 27-29, 2012, and the study weekend LACAN’S SEMINAR 22, 23-24 June 2012, in Dublin, Ireland, for information http://www.apwonline.org

HEARSAY HERESY: Reading R. S. I

Seminar XXII of Jacques Lacan, 1974-1975

After 1972, Lacan turned his attention to the topology of knots. This seminar is a turning-point because it systematically introduces the Borromean knot. This knot links the three registers of the Symbolic, the Real, and the Imaginary in such a manner that if one ring is cut, the other two are free. Such a knot can change shape but it always retains its properties. This seminar explains that mental and bodily life function topologically, that is according to a logic of jouissance, a libidinized meaning that materializes language. Desire, fantasy and partial drives are shown to be functions of it. Lacan’s theory of knots is not a metaphor, but an accurate way of understanding the subject, and for instance, the topology of knots has direct consequences on the clinic. This is also the seminar in which Lacan announces that Marx and not Freud invented the symptom. The far-reaching clinical and political consequences of this statement will be explored in our discussions.

Meetings are open to everyone interested. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 202, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend, THE ART OF MADNESS that will be held at Fordham University in New York City, April 27-29, 2012, and the study weekend LACAN’S SEMINAR 22, 23-24 June 2012, in Dublin, Ireland, for information see http://www.apwonline.org

HEARSAY HERESY: Reading R. S. I

Seminar XXII of Jacques Lacan, 1974-1975

After 1972, Lacan turned his attention to the topology of knots. This seminar is a turning-point because it systematically introduces the Borromean knot. This knot links the three registers of the Symbolic, the Real, and the Imaginary in such a manner that if one ring is cut, the other two are free. Such a knot can change shape but it always retains its properties. This seminar explains that mental and bodily life function topologically, that is according to a logic of jouissance, a libidinized meaning that materializes language. Desire, fantasy and partial drives are shown to be functions of it. Lacan’s theory of knots is not a metaphor, but an accurate way of understanding the subject, and for instance, the topology of knots has direct consequences on the clinic. This is also the seminar in which Lacan announces that Marx and not Freud invented the symptom. The far-reaching clinical and political consequences of this statement will be explored in our discussions.

Meetings are open to everyone interested. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 202, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend THE ART OF MADNESS that will be held at Fordham University in New York City, April 27-29, 2012, and the study weekend LACAN’S SEMINAR 22, 23-24 June 2012, in Dublin, Ireland, for information http://www.apwonline.org

PHANTASMATIC LOGIC: Reading Lacan’s Seminar XIV

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will work on Lacan’s Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967). We will give detailed attention to Lacan’s algebra of fantasy. We will assess the role of fantasy in clinical practice, in everyday life, and in cultural productions. We will tackle the grammar of phantasmatic constructions. We will study their effects on the Real or on reality. Does fantasy “frame” the Real (of desire) like a picture placed over a window-frame in order to conceal what is outside? Is really “reality” what people rely on in order to go on dreaming?

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all.

This meeting will take place in a private office in Center City. The meeting location will be communicated directly to those who want to participate.
Email: contact@lacangroup.org

PHANTASMATIC LOGIC: Reading Lacan’s Seminar XIV

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will work on Lacan’s Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967). We will give detailed attention to Lacan’s algebra of fantasy. We will assess the role of fantasy in clinical practice, in everyday life, and in cultural productions. We will tackle the grammar of phantasmatic constructions. We will study their effects on the Real or on reality. Does fantasy “frame” the Real (of desire) like a picture placed over a window-frame in order to conceal what is outside? Is really “reality” what people rely on in order to go on dreaming?

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 202, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PHANTASMATIC LOGIC: Reading Lacan’s Seminar XIV

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will work on Lacan’s Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967). We will give detailed attention to Lacan’s algebra of fantasy. We will assess the role of fantasy in clinical practice, in everyday life, and in cultural productions. We will tackle the grammar of phantasmatic constructions. We will study their effects on the Real or on reality. Does fantasy “frame” the Real (of desire) like a picture placed over a window-frame in order to conceal what is outside? Is really “reality” what people rely on in order to go on dreaming?

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 209, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PHANTASMATIC LOGIC: Reading Lacan’s Seminar XIV

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will work on Lacan’s Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967). We will give detailed attention to Lacan’s algebra of fantasy. We will assess the role of fantasy in clinical practice, in everyday life, and in cultural productions. We will tackle the grammar of phantasmatic constructions. We will study their effects on the Real or on reality. Does fantasy “frame” the Real (of desire) like a picture placed over a window-frame in order to conceal what is outside? Is really “reality” what people rely on in order to go on dreaming?

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 202, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Other events of interest:

Fantasy and Markets
Benjamin Cardozo School of Law – Yeshiva University (New York City)
This conference will bring together a number of prominent scholars from around the world who have been studying the relationship of the subject to the market from the perspective of a number of disciplines including law, psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology and literary studies.
October 23-24, 2011
http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/

Apres-Coup, Act and Transmission: On Formation in Psychoanalysis
Convergencia Colloquium New School for Social Reasearch (New York City)
Psychoanalysts from Europe, South America, and the United States will attend this Colloquium to explore the specificity of the analytic formation, addressing the formations of the unconscious, the analysand’s trajectory, the psychoanalytic act, the transformation and the passage to a different subjective position—underlining the fundamental question of transmission in psychoanalysis.
October 28-30, 2011
http://www.apres-coup.org/

APW Clinical Workstudy Weekend on Jacques Lacan’s Seminar XXIV
Duquesne University (Pittsburg)
October 8-9, 2011
http://www.apwonline.org/APW/Announcements.html

INTENSIVE READING SEMINAR—Concluding Meeting

The format of the summer seminar is new. We will engage in a close reading of the text followed by a discussion. The meetings will be on Saturdays and last 4 hours each.
Meetings are open to everyone interested. There will be four meetings and they will take place in a private office in Center City. The meeting location will be communicated directly to those who want to participate.

We will work on Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via the object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the Unconscious.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend that will be held at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Saturday and Sunday, 8 – 9 October 2011. (additional info http://www.apwonline.org/APW/Announcements.html)

To join this reading seminar email: contact@lacangroup.org

INTENSIVE READING SEMINAR—Fourth Meeting

The format of the summer seminar is new. We will engage in a close reading of the text followed by a discussion. The meetings will be on Saturdays and last 4 hours each.
Meetings are open to everyone interested. There will be four meetings and they will take place in a private office in Center City. The meeting location will be communicated directly to those who want to participate.

We will work on Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via the object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the Unconscious.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend that will be held at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Saturday and Sunday, 8 – 9 October 2011. (additional info http://www.apwonline.org/APW/Announcements.html)

To join this reading seminar email: contact@lacangroup.org

INTENSIVE READING SEMINAR—Third Meeting

The format of the summer seminar is new. We will engage in a close reading of the text followed by a discussion. The meetings will be on Saturdays and last 4 hours each.
Meetings are open to everyone interested. There will be four meetings and they will take place in a private office in Center City. The meeting location will be communicated directly to those who want to participate.

We will work on Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via the object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the Unconscious.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend that will be held at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Saturday and Sunday, 8 – 9 October 2011. (additional info http://www.apwonline.org/APW/Announcements.html)

To join this reading seminar email: contact@lacangroup.org

INTENSIVE READING SEMINAR—Second Meeting

The format of the summer seminar is new. We will engage in a close reading of the text followed by a discussion. The meetings will be on Saturdays and last 4 hours each.
Meetings are open to everyone interested. There will be four meetings and they will take place in a private office in Center City. The meeting location will be communicated directly to those who want to participate.

We will work on Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via the object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the Unconscious.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend that will be held at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Saturday and Sunday, 8 – 9 October 2011. (additional info http://www.apwonline.org/APW/Announcements.html)

To join this reading seminar email: contact@lacangroup.org

INTENSIVE READING SEMINAR

The format of the summer seminar is new. We will engage in a close reading of the text followed by a discussion. The meetings will be on Saturdays and last 4 hours each.
Meetings are open to everyone interested. There will be four meetings and they will take place in a private office in Center City. The meeting location will be communicated directly to those who want to participate.

First meeting: 5/21/2011.

We will work on Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via the object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the Unconscious.

This seminar will prepare for the Clinical Study Weekend that will be held at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Saturday and Sunday, 8 – 9 October 2011. (additional info http://www.apwonline.org/APW/Announcements.html)

To join this reading seminar email: contact@lacangroup.org

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will continue our work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Kelly Writers House, Room 202, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE:
WE MEET ON THURSDAY.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will continue our work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 209, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PLEASE NOTE DATE & TIME CHANGE: WE MEET ON THURSDAY 3/3 at 7:15 pm .

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will continue our work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE: WE MEET ON WEDNESDAY.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will continue our work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE: WE MEET ON WEDNESDAY.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will continue our work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DAY HAS CHANGED: WE NOW MEET ON THURSDAY.

A dialogue with Néstor Braunstein
Renowned psychoanalyst & prolific author.

“Where, when and how is the memory machine set into motion? What degree of fidelity—of authencity—does our first memory contain? Is it something that really happened or is it a foundational myth that we appeal to, recovering it from a dark and unknowable past in response to our current needs? What significance does it have, what meaning can be retroactively given to the moment at which the movie of memory begins? How does that first island emerge, protruding from the ocean of infantile amnesia?” (from Memory and Dread)

Dr. Néstor Braunstein is an Argentinian psychoanalyst who lives and works in Mexico. He has published important books on Freud and Lacan. His recent book (Memoria y espanto o el recuerdo de infancia, Siglo XXI: 2008, Memory and Dread or the Memory of Childhood, Jorge Pinto: 2010) discusses the literary narrative of memory in a very original manner. Conjugating the banal and the terrifying, since “memory starts with dread” Braunstein takes the reader on a “safari hunting for first memories.” From the role of screen memories to that of traumatic memories, Braunstein shows how remembrances impact Freud’s entire theory of psychoanalysis as well as the work of many writers. He discusses for instance Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Garcia Marquez, Jean Piaget, Elias Canetti, and the Catalan writer Nuria Amat. He has written as well on authors like Woolf, Joyce, Perec and Nabokov. Dr. Braunstein will speak in English. This presentation comes to La Casa Latina on October 14, 2010, 6:30 to 7:30pm.

ARCH Building, 2nd floor, Fireside Room
3601 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania

Refreshments will be served
Co-sponsored by La Casa Latina, Mex@Penn, Latino Coalition.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will continue our work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DAY HAS CHANGED: WE NOW MEET ON THURSDAY

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

We will continue exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

We will continue exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

We will continue exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Please join us this Wednesday February 17 at 8 pm for the screening of the documentary JACQUES LACAN SPEAKS (1982) by F. Wolff.

“For the first and only time, Jacques Lacan consented to be interviewed by a young journalist from the Belgian public broadcasting network RTBF, because it was a program for the general public. Moreover, uncharacteristically, he gave her permission to film his lecture at the prestigious Catholic University of Leuven. This two-part film is a fascinating and spectacular demonstration of the way Lacan deploys his discourse. He is charming and provocative in front of a large audience, and the next day, during the interview with Françoise Wolff, he reaveals another of his innumerable faces.”

This rare film offers the unique opportunity to watch Lacan harassed by a Belgian Situationist. See what it takes to become “an intellectual hero.”

Kelly Writers House
Room 202
38th and Locust Streets
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA

Our activities are free and open to all.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

Reading and discussion group exploring Lacan’s grammar of fantasy. We will continue our work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF MEETING DAY TO THURSDAY.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

We will work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Marcel Drach and Manya Steinkoler in conversation.

Thursday, December 10, 2009; 6:30-8:30 pm
Event organized in collaboration with the Slought Foundation.

Please join us for Capital crime and the art of the “con” artist: The Madoff case
The event is free to the public and will take place in the Slought Foundation galleries.

The public conversation around the Madoff scandal will feature Marcel Drach, Professor in Economics at Paris Dauphine University, and Manya Steinkoler, Associate Professor at Manhattan College CUNY, and is introduced and organized by Patricia Gherovici. This event will explore contemporary economic realities by joining economic analysis with cultural critique. It takes as its starting point Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme, the admitted operator of the Ponzi scheme that might be the largest investment fraud in Wall Street history. But the crime is much bigger than Madoff and even his victims. Perhaps Madoff’s crimes enable us to reflect not just on his own behavior but arguably an entire economic system that it has called into question. Was Bernie Madoff the most accomplished ‘pervert’ in the history of capitalism, an elaborate confidence artist who knew how to create desire? Or was he himself a deluded victim of the fundamental shortcomings of the model of late financial capitalism? Did his crime simply consist in guaranteeing ‘normal’ dividends, and what does this tell us about our own psychic relation to economic desire?

Bernard Lawrence “Bernie” Madoff (1938) started his firm in 1960 as a penny stock trader with $5,000 (about $35,000 in 2008 dollars), earned from working as a lifeguard and sprinkler installer. His fledgling business began to grow with the assistance of his father-in-law, accountant Saul Alpern, who referred a circle of friends and their families. Madoff founded the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC in 1960. Years later, Madoff would become the Chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. On December 10, 2008, Madoff’s sons told authorities that their father had just confessed to them that the asset management arm of his firm was a massive Ponzi scheme; they quoted him as saying it was “one big lie,” one that defrauded nearly 4,800 investors of billions of dollars. Federal investigators believe his investment operation may never have been legitimate. The amount missing from client accounts, including fabricated gains, was almost $65 billion. The court appointed trustee estimated actual losses to investors of $18 billion. On June 29, 2009, he was sentenced to 150 years in prison, the maximum allowed. Ignoring opportunity costs and taxes paid on fictitious profits, less than half of Madoff’s direct investors lost money, however. Nevertheless, Madoff’s personal and business asset freeze has created a chain reaction throughout the world’s business and philanthropic community, closing many, including the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, the Picower Foundation, and the JEHT Foundation.

Marcel Drach is Professor in Economics at Paris Dauphine university, former Program Director at the Collège international de philosophie (Paris). He is the editor of a special issue of Rue Descartes on “Philosophy and Economy,” (2000) and has written and L’argent -Croyance, mesure, spéculation, Editions La Découverte, 2004. He is currently organizing a 2010 symposium in Paris on the financial and economic aspects of the crisis with economists, philosophers and psychoanalysts.

Manya Steinkoler is Associate Professor, Manhattan College, CUNY. She recently published articles on Biblical Annunciation Narratives, PD James’s Children of Men, Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men. She is currently finishing a novel on the holocaust in Greece as well as a collection of fairy tales.

Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst and the author of The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003) and Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge, forthcoming).

Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St, Philadelphia. Free to the public. Reservation not required. * Slought Foundation

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

We will work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

We are pleased to announce that for this meeting we will have the presence of Dan Collins, who translated Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). He will make a presentation sharing his experience as a translator.

Dan Collins, PhD, MSW, is a teacher and social worker in Buffalo, NY. He is a founding member of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, an organization that promotes Lacanian clinical psychoanalysis in the United States. He has translated several works by Jacques Lacan and Jacques-Alain Miller.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

We will work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Phantasm (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

BLUNDERS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS: FROM FANTASY TO THE SYMPTOM

We will work on two texts of Lacan, Seminar XIV: The Logic of Phantasy (1966-1967), and Seminar XXIV: L’insu que sait de l’une bévue s’aile à mourre (1976-1977). We will follow Lacan’s progression from his algebra of fantasy via object (a), to the later formulation of love as a failure of the unconscious.

Everyone interested in psychoanalysis is welcome. The reading seminars are an open forum for the discussion of psychoanalysis. Curated by Patricia Gherovici. Seminars are free and open to all. Questions? Email contact@lacangroup.org.

Room 202, Kelly Writers House, 38th and Locust Streets, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Betty Fuks, Eliza Slavet, Liliane Weissberg, and Patricia Gherovici in conversation.

How can Freud help us understand the difference between Jewishness and being Jewish? Can psychoanalysis have original things to say about what makes a person Jewish, and is this identical with Judaism? Was Freud betraying his own people when he asserted that Moses was Egyptian? What does psychoanalysis have to say about “racial fever,” i.e. the unquenchable desire and drive to discover, recount and (sometimes even) invent ancestral memories that might somehow explain the present? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? The evening conversation at Slought Foundation will take questions such as these as a starting point. The conversation pairs a cultural critic with a psychoanalyst, both of whom have recently authored books on Freud and Jewishness. Moving beyond biographical debates about how Freud felt about Judaism, the conversation will explore his redefinition of Jewishness: what it is, how it is transmitted, and how it has survived. By engaging with the Freudian text, both Fuks and Slavet offer insightful accounts of how Freud invented a unique understanding of Jewishness.

Betty B. Fuks is a psychoanalyst practicing in Brazil. She teaches at the Post-Graduate Program of the Universidade Veiga de Almeida and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica both in Rio de Janeiro. Her books include Freud e a Cultura (Jorge Zahar, 2003), Freud E A Judeidade : A Vocação Do Exilio (Jorge Zahar, 2008), and Freud and the Invention of Jewishness (Agincourt Press, 2008).

Eliza Slavet has a PhD in Literature from UC San Diego, an MM in Oboe Performance from the Yale School of Music. She has organized several panels, among which the May 2006 New York Public Library discussion of “Freud’s Foreskin: A Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Most Suggestive Circumcision in History.” She has taught at Parsons, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU, Queens College, CUNY, and UC San Diego. She is the author of Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question (Fordham University Press, 2009).

Liliane Weissberg is Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of German and Comparative Literature. Her most recent books are a critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewess (1997), Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity (with Dan Ben-Amos, 1999), and Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race (with J. Gerald Kennedy, 2001).

Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst practicing in Philadephia and New York. She is the author of The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003) and Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge, forthcoming).

Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut St, Philadelphia. Free to the public. Reservation not required.