The Uncanny, 1909
Lacan in Australia will read and develop Freud’s famous paper over four Mondays during September. Everyone is welcome. The sessions are free and online, and will be recorded. The text will be provided.
“The uncanny is in reality nothing new or alien, but something which is familiar and old-established in the mind and which has become alienated from it only through the process of repression.” — Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny
Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959–1960
Lacan’s work in Seminar VI, Desire and Its Interpretation led him next to an exploration of ethics — specifically, an ethics that responds to the psychoanalytic experience and to the singular subject of the unconscious.
“The only thing one can be guilty of is giving ground relative to one’s desire.” — Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis
This is an open, informal reading seminar. Everyone is welcome, and you may join at any time. Our next session is Wednesday 9 September.
Sophocles’ Antigone, 440 BC
Antigone wants to bury her dead brother Polynices; Creon forbids it. The resulting clash of wills, desires and laws – the tragedy – brings the house of Thebes to catastrophe.
Lacan in Australia performed Antigone in full, over two acts, in August, in preparation for Lacan’s extensive engagement with the play in his Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.
Available now by recording.
A Lacanian psychoanalysis emphasises the function of desire, the division of the subject, and the structure and use of language.
Analysis is available in person in Melbourne CBD, online via Zoom, or by phone.