Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
“The Night Is Not So Black”
Claude Rabant
Friday, November 8, 2013
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, Room 408, New York, NY
What are the forces behind creation? What act brings it about? Between the forces of night and of day, a tension must be maintained between ego-ideal and ideal ego. If this tension collapses, the subject collapses with it, a victim of Nerval’s “black sun of melancholy.”
Suggested Readings: Freud, “Transience” (1915), “A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis” (1936). Lacan, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959/60, class 18.
Claude Rabant is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris, and a former member of the École Freudienne de Paris. He is the author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture; his books include Délire et théorie, Clins, Inventer le Réel, Métamorphoses de la mélancolie, and the recent La frénésie des pères.
Attendance fee: $20. For students with ID: $10.
Attendance is free for all members of Après-Coup as well as for the faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts.
For more information, visit www.apres-coup.org