Your invitation to join the conversations and discussions at the 8th December LW WG meeting
by Julia Evans on November 13, 2012
1) Next LacanianWorks Working Group Meeting: Saturday 8th December between 1pm and 3pm
There will be the usual mixture of conversations and presentations from Bruce Scott, Bruno de Florence, Jo Rostron, Julia Evans, following our topic of the ‘Symbolic in the 21st Century’, on Saturday 8th December between 1pm and 3pm.
Topic for this meeting:
Both Bruce and Jo presented work at the November meeting. See below for web-link to Jo’s text. At the December meeting:
– Comments are, again, promised on Channel 4’s programme, broadcast on 25th October 2012, 9pm to 10pm. Mass tourettes in one town in USA & its follow-up: Freaky Sleepers.
– & there may be some exploration of polymorphous perversion, perverse position & perverted in relation to Freud’s 1924 paper ‘The economic problem of masochism’ and Jacques Lacan’s ‘Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis’
You are invited to join us.
Further information about the Lacanian Works working group: LW cartel: Jouissance & symbolic (dis)order here: http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=76
The focus of our cartel work is Eric Laurent’s article: ‘The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment’. This text, given in July 2010, leads to the VIII Congress of the World Association of Psychoanalysis: (WAP Congress) : “The Symbolic Order in the 21st Century” in April 2012.
Location: The Marlborough Arms’ pub, map here
(36 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7LY, off Tottenham Court Rd, nearest tube Goodge Street)
This meeting follows the Reading Seminar VII group, so time and location may vary with circumstances…
Links to previous contributions are given during our meetings: LW WG work-in-progress : http://www.lacanianworks.net/?cat=103
LacanianWorks news
Posts from 3rd November 2012
Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation? by Jo Rostron on November 3, 2012 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=615
Texts from Julia Evans, from the archives, which give some of the background:
Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates by Julia Evans on December 15, 2010 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=226
Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? – No by Julia Evans on November 6, 2009 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=617
More on the effects of using this government’s top-down power – Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action by Julia Evans on November 5, 2009 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=616
Contents:
1) Detail of next LacanianWorks Working Group Meeting on Saturday 8th December 2012, 1pm to 3pm (as above)
2) Contemporary case studies
3) Other references which have emerged from LacanianWorks Working Group’s meetings
4) Bruce Scott’s presentation to Occupy London: St Paul’s Cathedral
5) Texts presented to LW WG at our meetings available here: http://www.lacanianworks.net/?cat=103
6) Comments on the August 2011 riots
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2) Contemporary case studies
Comments on three accounts of contemporary conditions by Bruno de Florence on May 26, 2012 Or http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=374
Benjamin Button syndrome, they act younger as they get older: Tuesday May 1st 2012: Hayden Smith by Julia Evans on May 1, 2012 or available here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=355
Third Gender is defined?:20th April 2012: Tom Gardner by Julia Evans on April 20, 2012 or available here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=348
Male anorexia in England: 16th April 2012: Sadie Whitelocks by Julia Evans on April 16, 2012 or available here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=338
Male anorexia, details of two cases living in the USA: 23rd February 2012: Victoria Wellman by Julia Evans on February 23, 2012 or available here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=337
The Hacker: a description of his life: 3rd July 2011: Abul Taher by Julia Evans on July 3, 2011 or available here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=332
For Bruno de Florence’s comments on this, see The hacker (July 9th, 2011)
3) Other references which have emerged from LacanianWorks Working Group’s meetings:
The real in the XXI st century: 27th April 2012: Jacques-Alain Miller or here: http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=381
…his lack of any self-limiting principle. If the problem is limits, then this is a problem without an easy solution, because we too have learnt to be limitlessly acquisitive: Christopher Caldwell by Julia Evans on April 27, 2012 or at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=328
Notes on references by Jacques Lacan to Plato’s ‘Meno’, Nicolas Cusanus, Michel de Montaigne… by Julia Evans on March 16, 2012 or at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=281
The Symbolic Order in the XXI Century: Consequences for the Treatment: July 2010: Éric Laurent available at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=295
Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment: ‘The Mother-Daughter Relationship’: Thread and Needle by Pierre Naveau on January 8, 2004 available at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=40
The ‘TRUTH’ of Kant’s moral law : Fantasy and the Limits of Enjoyment by Jean-Louis Gault on October 1, 2003 available at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=42
The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses in the New Forms of the Symptom: 1999: Massimo Recalcati also available at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=297
Gay Knowledge, Sad Truth: 1997: Serge Cottet also available at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=296
A Man’s Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism : 1921 : Michael Josef Eisler or here: http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=383
Texts from Julia Evans, from the archives, which give some of the background to 3rd November presentation by Jo Rostron:
Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates by Julia Evans on December 15, 2010 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=226
Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? – No by Julia Evans on November 6, 2009 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=617
More on the effects of using this government’s top-down power – Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action by Julia Evans on November 5, 2009 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=616
4) Bruce Scott’s presentation to Occupy London: St Paul’s Cathedral
Occupy the madness-29/01/2012- The Docta Ignorantia by Bruce Scott on January 29, 2012 available at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=238
5) LW WG texts available on www.LacanianWorks.net
From 3rd November 2012
Is there a Complex Adaptive Systems approach behind the ‘Big Society’ and the Coalition Government’s attitude towards statutory professional regulation? by Jo Rostron on November 3, 2012 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=615
Texts from Julia Evans, from the archives, which give some of the background:
Psychotherapy is imposed: Psycho-analysis© works: Psychoanalysis operates by Julia Evans on December 15, 2010 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=226
Does rule through regulatory systems give protection from murderers? – No by Julia Evans on November 6, 2009 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=617
More on the effects of using this government’s top-down power – Systems used to blame not re-calibrate and prevent (Child care) & the principles underlying Government action by Julia Evans on November 5, 2009 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=616
From 8th September 2012
The notes from this meeting are in process of being posted by Julia Evans…..
From June 30th 2012
French context of Autism in relation to Leo Kanner’s 1943 medical formulation of Autism by Bruno de Florence on June 30, 2012 or here: http://www.deflorence.com/?p=514
English context of Autism in relation to medical and other political formulations by Julia Evans on June 30, 2012 or here: http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=388
From our meeting on May 26th 2012
Comments on three accounts of contemporary conditions by Bruno de Florence on May 26, 2012 Or http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=374
Open Letter to the CHRE/PSA on Accreditation Standards by Bruce Scott on July 5, 2012 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=391
From our meeting on 18th February 2012
Fragments: The Thing (Das Ding) & … by Jo Rostron from the February 18, 2012 meeting or at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=320
Julia Evans and Bruno de Florence’s texts have yet to be made available.
From our meeting on January 21st 2012:
Bruno de Florence’s texts have yet to be made available.
‘Meno’, Montaigne and the ‘Docta Ignorantia’: Some thoughts and comments on the weak symbolic in the 21st century by Bruce Scott on January 21, 2012 or at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=245
Boundaries: 21st January 2012: Julia Evans by Julia Evans on January 21, 2012 or here, http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=357
From our meeting on November 12th 2011:
Getting off on old jouissance: Turning away from negative capability. by Bruce Scott on November 12, 2011 or at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=150
Body, Meaning and Knowledge – Part II by Jo Rostron on November 12, 2011 or available at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=192
Further explorations of Freud’s 1921 enquiry ‘There must (therefore) be the possibility of transforming group psychology into individual psychology’ by Julia Evans on November 12, 2011 or at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=170
From our meeting on October 8th 2011:
Lacan and Topology by Bruno de Florence on October 8, 201 or http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=126
Further exploration of limits and groups and their links to others in the context of the August riots by Julia Evans on October 8, 2011 http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=157
Body, Meaning and Knowledge by Jo Rostron on October 8, 2011 or at http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=175
From our meeting on July 9th 2011:
The hacker by Bruno de Florence on July 9th, 2011
An explanation of Jacques Lacan’s use of cartels in organisational structure by Julia Evans on November 1, 1997
6) Comments on the August 2011 riots:
August 2011 riots: reading the analyses: 24th August 2011: Paul Lewis, James Ball & Josh Halliday comment by Julia Evans on August 24, 2011 or here http://www.lacanianworks.net/?p=356
The Government as Sadeian experimenter by Julia Evans on August 17, 2011
Principles based in trust and relationships versus Sadeian absolute control by Julia Evans on August 14, 2011
What works – tackling out-of-limits destruction and violence by Julia Evans on August 14, 2011
… the existence of a “completely ignored underclass” who have developed a “perverse morality”. by Julia Evans on August 13, 2011
Post from Finsbury Park, North London by Richard Klein on August 12, 2011
‘Manchester calling’ For what? by Ian Parker on August 12, 2011
Not If, but when by Bruno de Florence on August 11, 2011
To limit or not to limit: to be or not to be, that is the question by Julia Evans on August 11, 2011
Hoodies by Jo Rostron on August 10, 2011
