New Series Begins Next Week!

"On a Discourse That Might Not Be a Semblance" (Seminar XVIII)

The first two lectures in our new series on Seminar XVIII just went out to all registered participants. I don’t know if these introductory lectures are spot on or near mad, or something else entirely, but I’m certain we’ll find out next week, in our first discussion of Lacan’s tremendous 1971 seminar, fittingly titled “On a Discourse That Might Not Be a Semblance.” Here’s a link to join in the fun:

In the meantime, just to give you a better sense of how Seminar XVIII begins, take another look at the final chapters of Lacan’s previous seminar, “The Other Side of Psychoanalysis” (Seminar XVII), where notions of truth, impotence, forbidden jouissance, and the name of the real are all at play. To help, here’s one of the concluding lectures in our last series: