SEMINAR SERIES: Presentations on Sexuality and the Social Link at Après-Coup

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2015-2016 SEMINAR SERIES
Presentations on Sexuality and the Social Link

November 4, 2015
Martin Winn: The Subject and the Social Link

November 18, 2015
Lilian Ferrari: On the Impossibility of Saying The Whole Truth

December 9, 2015
Adriana Passini, The Four Discourses in the Direction of the Cure

February 2, 2016
Paola Mieli, On Identification and the Social Bond:
Considerations on Fundamentalism

March 2, 2016
Mark Stafford, One Love: Trans-Science and Master Discourse

April 13, 2016
Ona Nierenberg, Driven Out: On the Expulsion of Lay Analysis and
Gay Analysts in the U.S.

May 11, 2016
Scott Von, The Art of the Symptom and the Future of Analysis

Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s studies on the notion of the subject and its relation to the collective, this series will explore contemporary questions about sexuality and social bonding and the place of psychoanalysis vis-à-vis other forms of institutions and discourses.
All seminars in this series take place at
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
8 pm–9:30 pm
Please ask at the front desk for the room number.

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Suggested Readings (by date)
Nov. 4, 2015—Lacan: selected lessons of Seminar XVII: Nov. 26,1969 and Dec. 17, 1969; Ecrits, “On the Subject Who is Finally in Question” (1966). Freud: Group Psychology Analysis of the Ego (1920).
Nov. 18, 2015—Lacan: Ecrits, “Instance of The Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud,” part II (1966); Seminar XVII, chapters III and IV, 1969-70.
Dec. 9, 2015—Lacan: Seminar XVII: classes II and VI, 1969-1970; Ecrits, “Presentation on Transference” (1951). Freud: “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria” (1905), pp. 18-63.
Feb. 2, 2016—Freud: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1920); The Future of an Illusion (1927). Lacan: Seminar VII, chapter XIV (1960); Seminar XIX, chapter XV (1972).
Mar. 2, 2016—Balzac: The Underside of Everyday Life (1847). Freud: Three Essays on Sexuality (1905); Lacan: Seminar XVII, chapter III (1969); Ecrits, “My Antecedents” (1966).
April 13, 2016—Abelove, H.: “Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans” (Dissent, Winter 1986). Bayer, R.: Homosexuality and American Psychiatry (1987). Freud: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) and The Question of Lay Analysis (1926).
May 11, 2016—Freud: The Schreber Case (1911), Civilization and its Discontents (1930), Constructions in Analysis (1937). Lacan: Seminar XXIII, The Sinthome (1976); Seminar XXIV, The Unknown… (1977); Seminar XXV, Moment to Conclude (1978).

Attendance is free and open to the public.

For more information, please call Martin Winn at 212-677-1147 or visit www.apres-coup.org

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