Meeting of the Seminar VII Reading Group on Saturday 8th March 2014 : starting Seminar VII : 4th May 1960: Ch XVI : p210
by Julia Evans on February 22, 2014
Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII : The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
Next meeting: Saturday 8th March 2014
Time: 10.30am to 12.30pm
LOCATION: Club Room (NOTE change of room – it’s up the back stairs)
CONWAY HALL
25 Red Lion Square
London WC1R 4RL
Tube: Holborn
All are welcome to join in. Just come along.
Updated posts from this group are available: “A. Reading Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis”’ category or here
We start reading at the beginning of Seminar VII : 4th May 1960: Ch XVI : p210 of the Dennis Porter translation, published by Routledge.
Contribution: £15/£10 concessionaries or let us know how much you are able to afford.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Organised by
Julia Evans – www.lacanianworks.net – je@lacanianworks.net
Bruno de Florence – www.deflorence.com – bdf@deflorence.com
You are invited to post your observations and comments to ‘the-letter’ Google
group: http://groups.google.com/group/the-letter
To access posts by this group, go to www.LacanianWorks.net and look in the category ‘Posts for the “A. Reading Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis”’ category or here
A number of the references commented on by Jacques Lacan and notes are available at Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan or here. These have been recently updated.
Posts for the “Lacan Jacques” category : Available here
The meeting dates for 2013/14 are available: Reading Seminar VII Group – Schedule for 2013/2014 Or here or below
AVAILABILITY OF SEMINAR VII
The 1992 translation by Dennis Porter will be used. Details of its availability are given Seminar VII: The ethics of psychoanalysis: 1959-1960: Jacques Lacan or here
AIM AND PROCESS FOR READING SEMINAR VII
The English translation of Jacques Lacan’s text will be read aloud during sessions. Group participants will be encouraged to contribute to the discussion of the ideas, the examination of the context and Lacan’s references. Invitations will be extended to them and others, with intersecting interests (such as linguistics, musicology, mathematics, Judaism, philosophy, topology, semiotics, Semitic languages, etc…) to join us in discussions. It is hoped that a body of notes will emerge.
BACKGROUND
What does psychoanalysis allow us to formulate concerning the origin of morality?
“Given all that is implied by the phrase, the ethics of psychoanalysis will allow me, far more than anything else, to test the categories that I believe enable me to give you through my teaching the most suitable instruments for understanding what is new both in Freud’s work and in the experience of psychoanalysis that derives from it.”
With these words Jacques Lacan begins his famous seminar on ethics, in which he discusses the problem of sublimation, the paradox of jouissance, the essence of tragedy (a reading of Sophocles’s Antigone), and the tragic dimension of analytical experience.
Delving into the psychoanalyst’s inevitable involvement with ethical questions and the ‘attraction of transgression’, Lacan clarifies many of his key concepts, as well as his criticisms of certain trends in psychoanalysis.
MEETINGS DATES FOR 2013 to 2014
All meetings are from 10.30am until 12.30pm.
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Tube: Holborn
8 March 2014 Club Room CONWAY HALL
12April 2014 Artists’ Room CONWAY HALL
10 May 2014 Artists’ Room CONWAY HALL
31 May 2014 Artists’ Room CONWAY HALL
21 June 2014 Artists’ Room CONWAY HALL
5 July 2014 Artists’ Room CONWAY HALL
