Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
Lacan’s Formulas of Sexuation with Alain Vanier
Thursday, March 31, 2016, 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm Friday, April 1, 2016, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Freud stated that there is no representation of sexual difference in the unconscious. Starting from that observation, Lacan coined the term “sexuation” to designate how the subject, due to “inhabiting language,” is inscribed in sexual difference: recognizing oneself as a man or a woman is a matter of the signifier.
Suggested Readings: Lacan: Seminar XX, Encore, 1972‑73.
Alain Vanier is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who also earned a degree in ancient and modern literature. He is a full professor at the U. of Paris Diderot–Paris 7 and graduate studies director at its Research Center for Psychoanalysis, Medicine and Society, and an Après-Coup faculty member. At the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he directed a lecture series on “Psychoanalysis, Art and the Image.” He has published widely on literary and artistic creation; among his numerous psychoanalytic studies, which have appeared in English as well as French, is his monograph Lacan, published in the U.S. by the Other Press.
Attendance fee: $20 per session; for students with ID: $10 per session.
Attendance is free for members of Après-Coup as well as for the
faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts.
For more information, visit http://www.apres-coup.org/