Lacan Toronto Teaching Session
1 + 1 = 3
I recently did a “short session” with Lacan Toronto, in which we discussed all manner of things — from the history and mission of “Lectures on Lacan,” to reading strategies for Lacan’s diverse texts, to the wonderfully fuzzy math his work often requires of us.
This Sunday, I’ll be back with the Lacan Toronto crew — this time for a longer “teaching session,” in which we’ll be learning how to count to three with Lacan, and again by way of wonderfully fuzzy math, just as you might expect: 1 + 1 = 3.
This teaching session will be free to attend and open to all, and no prior familiarity with Lacan’s work will be required or expected. See below for more details, complements of the Lacan Toronto crew. Hope to see you there!
Lacan Toronto Teaching Session 12:
Samuel McCormick, PhD, “1 + 1 = 3”
Sunday 16 February 2025 from 1:30-3pm EST (Toronto)
The session will be held online via Zoom, free of charge, and open to all with no registration required:
Zoom Login: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87011464628
Zoom Meeting ID: 870 1146 4628
General Information: https://lacantoronto.ca/
Samuel McCormick (PhD) is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. He earned his doctorate in Communication Studies at the University of Iowa and served as an Assistant Professor and Co-director of the Philosophy & Communication doctoral program at Purdue University. McCormick was awarded the European Institutes for Advanced Studies (EURIAS) and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. He is the host of Lectures on Lacan an online platform committed to the detailed exegesis of Lacan's writings, seminars, and interviews. The series has become a vibrant community of students, academics, clinicians, and analysts-in-training. Lectures on Lacan preserves an extensive online archive of videos and resource materials on Seminars 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, L’étourdit, Télévision, écrits such as “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire,” lesser known writings, and concepts such as the drive. McCormick’s series on Lacan's Seminar 21: Les Non Dupes Errent (1973-1974) begins 14 February 2025 at 10am PST.
Recommended reading (linked)
Jacques Lacan, "Télévision," bi-lingual text prepared by Richard G. Klein from Autres écrits, pgs. 509-543 & English translation by Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, & Annette Michelson (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1990), pgs. 3-46.
Jacques Lacan, “Television,” in ed. Joan Copjec, trans. Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, & Jeffrey Mehlman, Television: A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment (New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1990), pgs. 3-46 [PDF pgs. 28-70] [French, 1974; English 1987 (October, vol. 40, Spring)].
Recommended videos (linked)
Benoît Jacquot, Jacques Lacan: Télévision (La Psychanalyse 1 & 2) [English subtitles] (1973) (03 January 2019: Filosofikanalen) [Film by Benoît Jacquot of Jacques Lacan responding to questions posed by Jacques-Alain Miller commissioned by the ORTF under the title “Psychanalyse” broadcast on prime-time television in France.]
Samuel McCormick, "Television — Sections I-II — Some But Not All" for Lectures on Lacan (05 January 2025: Online video published by Lectures on Lacan)
Lectures on Lacan
Lectures on Lacan (General information and archive)
Lectures on Lacan: Youtube Channel
Lectures on Lacan (Information and registration: Series on "Seminar 21")
Bibliography (selected)
Samuel McCormick, The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020)
Samuel McCormick, Letters to Power: Public Advocacy without Public Intellectuals (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012)