Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
Lacan’s Discourses
Alain Vanier
Thursday, January 19, 2017 · 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Friday, January 20, 2017 · 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
We will begin by introducing the notion of discourse, followed by a commentary on the four (or five) discourses that Lacan intended to use to write the different modalities of the social link. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the founding of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, we will examine the relation between analytic experience and the ways in which psychoanalytic communities are organized.
Suggested Readings: Lacan: Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, 1969-70; “Discours à l’Université de Milan” (May 12, 1972), Lacan in Italia/Lacan en Italie 1953-1978 (Milan, La Salamandra, 1978, pp. 32-55).
Alain Vanier is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who also earned a degree in ancient and modern literature. He is a full professor at the University of Paris Diderot–Paris 7 and the director of graduate studies at its Research Center for Psychoanalysis, Medicine and Society. At the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he directed a lecture series on “Psychoanalysis, Art and the Image.” He is the author of many articles 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/