Goodbyesymptomhellosinthome

Our fall series on R.S.I. (Seminar XXII) concluded last week with another lit and wondrous hours-long discussion, largely in response to the explosive final lessons in SXXII, on which I based the final lecture in our series: “Enjoy Your Unconscious.”

Here’s the complete list of lectures, just to give you a sense of how things unfolded. The final three lectures — each on Lacan’s evolving theory of the symptom — were my favorite to record. But it was in preparing lecture three — on the conceptual underpinnings of Lacan’s borromean knot — that I learned the most. 🤯

And speaking of summative lists, please allow me to share one more, without which our series on SXXII wouldn’t have been possible:

Asaf, Austin, Breanne, Bretta, Camden, Chloe, Chris, Cody, Diana, Emmanuel, Fate, Fernanda, Gabriel, George, Hamza, Hanafi, Holly, Martin, Iyla, Jan, Thijmen, Jinkang, the Jonathans, Jordan, Kelci, Kristin, Mari, Mustafa, Mylene, Nicole, Paula, Penny, Pushpajith, Rachel, Rami, Roni, Sandy, Stamatia, Suhrida, Svetlana, Terence, and Tiffi — thank you for blowing diagrammatic minds from start to finish!

Next up for Lectures on Lacan — you guessed it! — is our clinician-thinker’s renowned twenty-third seminar: The Sinthome (1975-1976). The table of contents alone has got me amped:

Stay tuned for more details next month — you don’t want to miss this one! 🤘🏼