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.
Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959 – 1960
This group has been meeting weekly and continuously since 2020 and we are currently reading ’Ethics’, There is no fee, we are all online, we read out-loud, line-by-line, with commentary and discussion. The group is casual, everyone is welcome, and you may join in at any time.
Our next session is on Wednesday 22 July.
Sophocles’ tragedy of 440 BC
Lacan makes extensive us of Antigone in his Seminar VII on Ethics to develop the distinction between Creon’s pragmatic and moral state law, and Antigone’s pure unyielding desire and ethical action. Lacan in Australia will read/perform the play in full on Zoom over two consecutive Mondays in August.
Free, online, recorded and open to all.
Sigmund Freud’s Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis, 1909
These five lectures, written in a simple, lively style, and filled with anecdotes, describe the origins of psychoanalysis and the trajectory of Freud’s thinking during the important early years of psychoanalysis. They were given to students and lay-people at Clark University in the US in 1909.
Lacan in Australia read the lectures out-loud, with commentary and discussion, over five weeks during April and May 2026. The events were recorded, and are available now.
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