New Podcast & Summer Series

Our spring series on Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse concluded on Friday, and I couldn’t be happier with the results: a dozen recorded lectures, eight unstoppable discussions (upwards of four hours each!), and more clinical and conceptual syntheses than ever before. Who knew early-1970s Lacan is absolute 🔥?!

All thanks for this watershed spring series go to the brilliant and ever-welcoming group of scholars, clinicians, students, and independent learners who made it possible. The list is long, but I’d be remiss to leave anyone unthanked: Ἀναστασία, Andrew, Barbara, Benjamin, Chloe, Craig, the Davids, Derek, Dieter, Fernanda, Gabriel, Gabriella, Geo, Gwen, Hamza, Helfried, Henrik, Ian, Jonathan, Jordan, Julia, Kelci, Kolya, Panagiota, Patrick, Paul, Penny, Phoebus, Rachel, Reza, Rich, Risa, Rishab, Robin, Sandy, Soraya, Tiffi, Tyson, and Yubin — y’all, and none other, made it happen!

All of which, and all of whom, has me wondering: What’s next for Lectures on Lacan?! Much is in motion, more than I can say here, but two futures in particular are quickly coming into focus:

First, a new podcast series — this one scaled up from our recent miniseries on “The Psychoanalyst’s Knowledge” (Seminar XIXa). If you enjoyed our podcast on Seminar XVIII, with all of its night skies and littoral flourishes, you’re going to love this one.

I’m also planning a four-part summer lecture series on the utterly stunning essay Lacan wrote in the wake of Seminar XIXb: “L’Étourdit.” Scholars and clinicians often consider this essay to be damn-near unreadable, but few deny its status as the definitive written statement of Lacan’s later thought, so how could we resist?!

Stay tuned for an official announcement with more details later this week!

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