Lacan Circle of Melbourne
Invitation to the Study Day
Saturday the 23rd May 2015
Lacan Circle of Melbourne (LCM) is holding its fourth Study Day for the year, and the Circle invites to
this event anyone interested in Lacanian psychoanalysis. The Study Day will be held from 9:30 to
13:30 at the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) at 124 Jolimont Road, East Melbourne,
Victoria 3002. Registration for this all-day event can be made on the day, with the fees of $60, $40
and $30, for non-LCM members, LCM members, and full-time students respectively. Light
refreshment will be provided.
Please find below the details of the program for the day.
Session 1 (9:30-11:30): The Vel of Alienation in the Logic of the Fantasy
Presenter: Richard Groome
What is the Logic of the Fantasy? It has been nearly fifty years since Lacan's seminar on the Logic of
the Fantasy and there still does not exist today and an adequate response or construction in either
the French or English language. This is unfortunate since the clinical efficacy of a discourse is by no
means a priori if the foundations of its practice-theory cannot be established among those working in
the field. Yet analysts and analysands seems to shy away from the analysis of logical structures and
feel more at home with problems most often linked to the humanities (literature, linguistics, myth,
and poetics) and human sciences(psychology, sociology, etc.) The reasons for this detour and flight
from logic are complex and go far in revealing the very clinical field that is being circumvented. My
intervention aims to analyze the logical basis of the fantasy as it was first posed by J. Lacan and to
show how this allows for an access to problems that lie hidden behind the more traditional
approaches of psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Suggested Reading:
The 7th, the 14th and the 21st December, in Lacan’s Seminar XIV: The Logic of the Fantasy
Quine’s Methods in Logic, or any introductory text on the construction of truth tables
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Session 2 (12:00-13:30): Reading Lacan’s Seminar XX
We will continue group reading of Lacan’s Seminar XX: Encore, for which an English translation is
available from Norton (see below).
Lacan, J. (1996) On Feminine Sexuality: The limit of love and knowledge. (Ed. by J-A. Miller; Trans. by B.
Fink) Norton: New York.
Lacan, J. (1975) Le Seminaire de Jacques Lacan, Livre XX: Encore 1972-1973. (Ed. by J-A. Miller) Seuil :
Paris.
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Please contact Noriaki Sato at <[email protected]> if you have any questions regarding the
LCM Study Day.
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