Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
On Sublimation by Erik Porge
Saturday, February 27, 2016, 10:30 am – 3:00 pm
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
In his seminar The Logic of the Phantasm (1967), Lacan asserts that sublimation still “remains in a certain suspension in analytic theory” and is a concept around which “have accumulated the most clouds and the most pretenses.” We will attempt to clarify the notion of sublimation and its stakes, particularly concerning the outcome of an analysis, the passage to the position of analyst and the relation to the transmission of clinical experience.
Suggested Readings: Lacan: Seminar VI, Desire and Its Interpretation, 1958-59, class 24, June 18, 1959; Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60, classes of Jan. 13 and 27, March 9 and 16, 1960; Seminar XIV, La logique du fantasme, 1966-67, class of March 8, 1967, to end; Seminar XVI, 1968-69, D’un Autre à l’autre, 1968-69, classes of March 5, 12 and 26, 1969; Autres écrits, “Hommage fait à Marguerite Duras, du ravissement de Lol V. Stein” (1965).
Erik Porge is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. A member of the École Freudienne de Paris until its dissolution, he is the co-founder of the Association de Psychanalyse Encore and the editor-in-chief of the psychoanalytic journal Essaim. He is the author of a number of well-known books, including: Les Noms du père chez Jacques Lacan (1997); Jacques Lacan, un psychanalyste (2000); Voix de l’écho (2012); and Le ravissement de Lacan (2015). Truth and Knowledge in the Clinic is his first book to be translated into English.
Attendance fee: $50. For students with ID: $20.
Attendance is free for all members of Après-Coup as well as for the faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts.
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