New Lecture Series: From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI)
Next up in our live lecture series is Jacques Lacan’s pivotal 1968-1969 seminar From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI), the original cover art of which is more than a little suggestive of what’s to come:
Seminar XVI is crucial for us in several ways. In addition to advancing several key themes we’ve been discussing — notably, fantasy, the barred Other, drive satisfaction, and logics of repetition — Seminar XVI shows Lacan developing his much-discussed notion of surplus enjoyment, further extending his set theoretical work on the One, and paving the way for his renowned discursive turn in The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Seminar XVII).
Given the length and importance of Seminar XVI, we’ll be taking our time with this one. From February to May, registered participants will receive weekly recorded lectures on Seminar XVI. Then, every other Friday from 10am-12pm PST / 1pm-3pm EST / 19:00-21:00 CET, I’ll host live Zoom discussions of these materials, paying special attention, as ever, to their implications for psychoanalytic theory and technique.
Schedule of Events:
24 February: Zoom Discussion, 10am PST. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters I-VII.
10 March: Zoom Discussion, 10am PST. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters VIII-XI.
31 March: Zoom Discussion, 10am PST. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters XII-XV.
14 April: Zoom Discussion, 10am PST. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters XVI-XIX.
28 April: Zoom Discussion, 10am PST. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters XX-XXIII.
12 May: Zoom Discussion, 10am PST. Readings to be covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters XXIV-XXV.
Registration Costs:
$200 for the complete series (20+ recorded lectures + 7 live discussions):
Student & Trainee Discount: $100 for the complete series (20+ recorded lectures + 7 live discussions):
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About Prof. Dr. McCormick:
Samuel McCormick, Ph.D., is an award-winning teacher and scholar. He lectures widely on Lacanian psychoanalysis, is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, and was recently appointed EURIAS & Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. His first book, Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals, won the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression, the James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, and the Everett Lee Hunt Award. His second book, The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press.
More about Lectures on Lacan and Prof. Dr. McCormick HERE.
Kia ora Samuel - Just listened to your first episode on X. Really loved it, it has been many years since I first read Anxiety and it bought back all those memories of staring at the graph of desire. Thanks!
I’m a psychiatrist and analytical therapist based in Sydney Australia. Got into Lacan a few years ago and he’s increasingly taking a more prominent place in my practice and theoretical orientation. But man has it been a struggle! You are lightening my load and then some. There’s nothing out there like it. Please keep this going!