READING lacan
Jacques Lacan’s Seminars, read out-loud and line-by-line
This group’s previous reads include:
Seminar VI, Desire and Its Interpretation (2024)
Seminar V, Formations of the Unconscious (2022-3)
Seminar IV, The Object Relation (2021)
Seminar III, The Psychoses (2020)
We are currently reading Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, and we will begin ‘The Function of the Beautiful’ on Wednesday 2 September
Free, online, recorded, and open to all
Lacan in Australia recently performed Sophocles’ play ANTIGONE, here.
Lacan will be speaking about her, at length, in the upcoming section of his Ethics Seminar.
RECENT RECORDINGS
26 August 2026, pages 227 – 230
19 August 2026, pages 224 – 227
12 August 2026, pages 222 – 224
Natural Cycles
.5 August 2026, pages 218 – 222
The Function of the Good
29 July 2026, pages 214 – 217
The Supreme-Being-in-Evil
22 July 2026, pages 210 – 214
Harmony, Discordance, Annihilation
15 July 2026, pages 205 – 209
Marx and Spaltung
8 July 2026, pages 200 – 204
Sade and the Absolute of the Unbearable
1 July 2026, pages 197 – 200
Sade and the Self
24 June 2026, pages 195 – 197
Utilitarianism and the little other
17 June 2026, pages 191 – 195
The Jouissance of Transgression
10 June 2026, pages 185 – 190
Jouissance is Evil
3 June 2026, pages 181 – 185
“To torture and kill him”
27 May 2026, pages 175 – 181
Crisis of Confidence
20 May 2026, pages 173 – 175
The Origins of Religion
13 May 2026, pages 169 – 173
Moses and Monotheism
6 May 2026, pages 167 – 169
Sexual Metaphors
Older recordings are available by request
About
We meet weekly and continuously with a one-week break at Christmas and a one-week break between Seminars.
Eugénie reads the text out-loud, line-by-line, with some commentary. We pause for questions as they arise, and to discuss and develop the text.
Details
When: Weekly on Wednesdays, 7:00pm – 8:30pm (followed by broader and unrecorded discussion) Melbourne time (AEST). Find your local start time here
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost: There is no fee
Privacy
Be aware that these Reading Seminar sessions are recorded and then viewed by a large audience.
Registered participants receive a weekly reminder email with the meeting details, the previous week’s recording, and access to supplementary materials in the Ethics Google Drive.
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-1960