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Reading Group: On the Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real

21 Feb

READING GROUP: Lacan Demystified

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Reading group is back! This spring we are doing things a little different. For each week we have selected one Lacan text, and one secondary text. Read one, read both, read neither, it’s up to you! What is most important is that every Monday at 8:00pm we will come together to try and figure out what this notoriously obscure figure was really trying to get at. If you have a question raised by the text that you addressed at the meeting, leave a note in the comments below.

This week (Feb. 22nd) we will be discussing the tripartite structure of the Imaginary, Symbolic, and the Real.

This week’s texts (Read one, both, or neither!):

  • Lacan, “Rings of String” in Seminar XX
  • Delay, “The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real” in God is Unconscious

Free Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

Want some extra resources? Check out PEL’s episode on Lacan HERE, or their episode on Lacan and Derrida’s readings of Poe’s “Purloined Letter” HERE.

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole winter, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

  • Wed, Feb. 24, noon: Dr. Fred Evans: “Democracy, Philosophy, and Derrida,”Africa Room, Student Union, Duquesne University.

OTHER NEWS:

Dylan Trigg’s “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty” is now available at our YouTube channel here:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Lacan Demystified

2/22 – The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real

  • Lacan, “Rings of String” in Seminar XX
  • Delay, “The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real” in God is Unconscious

2/29 – Feminine Sexuality

  • Lacan, “On Jouissance” and “God and Woman’s Jouissance” in Seminar XX
  • Butler, “Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade” in Gender Trouble

3/7 – Ethics and Psychoanalysis

  • Lacan, “Kant with Sade” in Ecrits
  • Zupančič, “The Lie” in Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan

3/14 – The Four Discourses

  • Lacan, “The Master and the Hysteric” in Seminar XVII
  • Žižek, “Four Discourses, Four Subjects” in Sic 2: Cogito and the Unconscious

Find all Pdfs Here

Coming this spring: Do you get it?!: Philosophy and Humor

Reading Group: on the Lacanian Subject

15 Feb

READING GROUP: Lacan Demystified

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Reading group is back! This spring we are doing things a little different. For each week we have selected one Lacan text, and one secondary text. Read one, read both, read neither, it’s up to you! What is most important is that every Monday at 8:00pm we will come together to try and figure out what this notoriously obscure figure was really trying to get at. If you have a question raised by the text that you addressed at the meeting, leave a note in the comments below.

This week (Feb. 15th) we will be discussing the complex structure and origin of the subject in Lacanian thought.

This week’s texts (Read one, both, or neither!):

  • Lacan, “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” in Ecrits
  • Fink, “The Lacanian subject” in The Lacanian subject: Between Language and Jouissance

Free Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

Want some extra resources? Check out PEL’s episode on Lacan HERE, or their episode on Lacan and Derrida’s readings of Poe’s “Purloined Letter” HERE.

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole winter, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

  • Thurs. Feb 18th, 7:00pm: “Incemental Love” – Dr. Eugenie Brinkema. Lecture Hall 2, Rockwell Hall, Duquesne University.
  • Fri. Feb 19th, 2:30pm: Jim Risser (Seattle University). Simon Silverman Center, Gumberg Library 1st Floor, Duquesne University.

OTHER NEWS:

Dylan Trigg’s “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty” is now available at our YouTube channel here:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Lacan Demystified

2/15 – The Lacanian Subject

  • Lacan, “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” in Ecrits
  • Fink, “The Lacanian subject” in The Lacanian subject: Between Language and Jouissance

2/22 – The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real

  • Lacan, “Rings of String” in Seminar XX
  • Delay, “The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real” in God is Unconscious

2/29 – Feminine Sexuality

  • Lacan, “On Jouissance” and “God and Woman’s Jouissance” in Seminar XX
  • Butler, “Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade” in Gender Trouble

3/7 – Ethics and Psychoanalysis

  • Lacan, “Kant with Sade” in Ecrits
  • Zupančič, “The Lie” in Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan

3/14 – The Four Discourses

  • Lacan, “The Master and the Hysteric” in Seminar XVII
  • Žižek, “Four Discourses, Four Subjects” in Sic 2: Cogito and the Unconscious

Find all Pdfs Here

 

Reading Group – The Mirror Stage

7 Feb

READING GROUP: Lacan Demystified

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Reading group is back! This spring we are doing things a little different. For each week we have selected one Lacan text, and one secondary text. Read one, read both, read neither, it’s up to you! What is most important is that every Monday at 8:00pm we will come together to try and figure out what this notoriously obscure figure was really trying to get at. If you have a question raised by the text that you addressed at the meeting, leave a note in the comments below.

This week (Feb. 8th) we will be discussing Lacan’s most famous paper on the “mirror stage.” What is it? Why should we care? Why did this make him famous?

This week’s texts (Read one, both, or neither!):

  • Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” in Ecrits
  • Neill, “Exegesis of: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”

Free Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

Want some extra resources? Check out PEL’s episode on Lacan HERE, or their episode on Lacan and Derrida’s readings of Poe’s “Purloined Letter” HERE.

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole winter, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

  • None this week

OTHER NEWS:

Dylan Trigg’s “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty” is now available at our YouTube channel here:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Lacan Demystified

2/8 – The Mirror Stage

  • Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” in Ecrits
  • Neill, “Exegesis of: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”

2/15 – The Lacanian Subject

  • Lacan, “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” in Ecrits
  • Fink, “The Lacanian subject” in The Lacanian subject: Between Language and Jouissance

2/22 – The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real

  • Lacan, “Rings of String” in Seminar XX
  • Delay, “The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real” in God is Unconscious

2/29 – Feminine Sexuality

  • Lacan, “On Jouissance” and “God and Woman’s Jouissance” in Seminar XX
  • Butler, “Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade” in Gender Trouble

3/7 – Ethics and Psychoanalysis

  • Lacan, “Kant with Sade” in Ecrits
  • Zupančič, “The Lie” in Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan

3/14 – The Four Discourses

  • Lacan, “The Master and the Hysteric” in Seminar XVII
  • Žižek, “Four Discourses, Four Subjects” in Sic 2: Cogito and the Unconscious

Find all Pdfs Here

 

CALL for PAPERS: SPHS

2 Feb

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES (SPHS)

In conjunction with
The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
2016 Annual Conference, October 20-22

Salt Lake City Hilton
Salt Lake City, UT
Host Institution:
Utah Valley University

Contents of Submissions
SPHS encourages the application of phenomenological methodology to specific investigations within the human and social sciences. You are invited to participate in our engagement of phenomenology with multidisciplinary approaches to the social and human sciences. We are looking for those who share our dedication to theoretical, methodical and practical examinations of the Life-World.

We welcome submissions on all topics within the human and social sciences concerned with a reflective appreciation of the nature of experience. SPHS invites submissions for conference presentations that explore or apply qualitative approaches to the human and social sciences. Papers can engage any relevant aspect of the human sciences in general, or can focus on specific fields such as sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, geography, communication, history, ecology, religion, cultural studies, ethnic/race/gender studies, medical/health sciences, and education.

Submissions on all topics are welcome, though we especially encourage papers that advance dialogue between philosophy and the human sciences, address the relation between theory and praxis, focus on embodiment or present reflective investigations of the nature of experience in general. Papers should bear substantive relation to phenomenology, broadly conceived, or its kindred traditions. In addition to phenomenology, examples of methods and approaches relevant to the conference include existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, ethnography, ethnomethodology, semiotics, grounded theory, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit their work.

Forms of Submissions

Presentations may take the form of individual papers, panels, or workshops. If submitting an individual paper final papers are preferred, but extended abstracts will be accepted as well. For panels submit a proposal of less than 1500 words total including individual abstracts, titles and contact information for each presentation. For workshops submit a full abstract of the panel of less than 500 words with a list of all participants and their contact information. To be considered all presentation proposals must include names, paper titles, and full contact information including emails and separate abstracts for all presenters. Keep submissions at a length appropriate for a presentationof about 20 minutes.

Please identify student proposals as such, indicating school, area of major study, level (graduate or undergraduate). Submissions may be sent via post or email. Electronic proposals should be sent as either a MS Word document or PDF file. For all submissions, please include a separate cover sheet with complete contact information, including email address, postal address, and telephone numbers. Also, please indicate what, if any, audio visual or electronic equipment you desire on cover sheet. Presenters at the conference are expected to be members in good standing with the Society. If your presentation is accepted for presentation you will be expected to register before the conference. See our website for information on registration: http://www.sphs.info

Submission Deadline: All submissions must be received by Wednesday April 20, 2016.

Send all submissions to:

Email submission (preferred):
sphssubmission@gmail.com

SPHS physical mail address:
SPHS Submission
Attn: J. Leavitt Pearl
Department of Theology
Duquesne University
600 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15282

Direct additional inquiries to:
Michael D. Barber, SPHS Program Co-Chair
St. Louis University
Email: barbermd@slu.edu

J. Leavitt Pearl, SPHS Program Co-Chair
Duquesne University
Email: pearlj@duq.edu

For additional conference information, please see the SPHS website:

http://www.sphs.info

Reading Group: From Freud to Lacan

30 Jan

READING GROUP: Lacan Demystified

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Reading group is back! This spring we are doing things a little different. For each week we have selected one Lacan text, and one secondary text. Read one, read both, read neither, it’s up to you! What is most important is that every Monday at 8:00pm we will come together to try and figure out what this notoriously obscure figure was really trying to get at. 

This week (Feb. 1st) we will be discussing the complex relationship between Lacan and Freud. Why does Lacan insist that his project is merely a re-articulation of Freudian insights when it seems so new?

This week’s texts (Read one, both, or neither!):

  • Lacan,“The Freudian Thing, or The Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis” in Ecrits.
  • Sarup, Jacques Lacan, Chapter 1 “The Freudian Terrain.”

Free Pdfs of the Readings can be found: HERE

Location: we will be meeting at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

Want some extra resources? Check out PEL’s episode on Lacan: HERE

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole winter, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

  • None this week

OTHER NEWS:

Dylan Trigg’s “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty” is now available at our YouTube channel here:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Lacan Demystified

2/1 – From Freud to Lacan

  • Lacan,“The Freudian Thing, or The Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis” in Ecrits
  • Madan Sarup, Jacques Lacan, Chapter 1 “The Freudian Terrain.”

2/8 – The Mirror Stage

  • Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” in Ecrits
  • Neill, “Exegesis of: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”

2/15 – The Lacanian Subject

  • Lacan, “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” in Ecrits
  • Fink, “The Lacanian subject” in The Lacanian subject: Between Language and Jouissance

2/22 – The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real

  • Lacan, “Rings of String” in Seminar XX
  • Delay, “The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real” in God is Unconscious

2/29 – Feminine Sexuality

  • Lacan, “On Jouissance” and “God and Woman’s Jouissance” in Seminar XX
  • Butler, “Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade” in Gender Trouble

3/7 – Ethics and Psychoanalysis

  • Lacan, “Kant with Sade” in Ecrits
  • Zupančič, “The Lie” in Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan

3/14 – The Four Discourses

  • Lacan, “The Master and the Hysteric” in Seminar XVII
    Žižek, “Four Discourses, Four Subjects” in Sic 2: Cogito and the Unconscious

Find all Pdfs Here

 

Reminder: Lacan Demystified Kicks off Monday

24 Jan

READING GROUP: Lacan Demystified

Special reminder:
We will be meeting at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

3rx2wsReading group is back! This spring we are doing things a little different. For each week we have selected one Lacan text, and one secondary text. Read one, read both, read neither, it’s up to you! What is most important is that every Monday at 8:00pm we will come together to try and figure out what this notoriously obscure figure was really trying to get at. 

This week (Jan. 25th) we will be simply trying to introduce Lacan and see where the major points of his thought lie.

This week’s texts (Read one, both, or neither!):

  • Lacan, “The Place, Origin and End of My Teaching” in My Teachings
  • Ragland-Sullivan, “Introduction” in Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Free Pdfs of the Readings can be found: HERE

Location change: we will be meeting at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

Want some extra resources? Check out PEL’s episode on Lacan: HERE

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole winter, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

  • 01/29: 2:30pm – ERIC VOGELSTEIN (Duquesne University), Simon Silverman Center, Gumberg Library 1st floor, Duquesne University.

OTHER NEWS:

Dylan Trigg’s “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty” is now available at our YouTube channel here:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Lacan Demystified

1/25 – Introduction

  • Lacan, “The Place, Origin and End of My Teaching” in My Teachings
  • Ragland-Sullivan, “Introduction” in Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

2/1 – From Freud to Lacan

  • Lacan,“The Freudian Thing, or The Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis” in Ecrits
  • Grose, “The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan” in Introductory Lectures on Lacan

2/8 – The Mirror Stage

  • Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” in Ecrits
  • Neill, “Exegesis of: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”

2/15 – The Lacanian Subject

  • Lacan, “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” in Ecrits
  • Fink, “The Lacanian subject” in The Lacanian subject: Between Language and Jouissance

2/22 – The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real

  • Lacan, “Rings of String” in Seminar XX
  • Delay, “The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real” in God is Unconscious

2/29 – Feminine Sexuality

  • Lacan, “On Jouissance” and “God and Woman’s Jouissance” in Seminar XX
  • Butler, “Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade” in Gender Trouble

3/7 – Ethics and Psychoanalysis

  • Lacan, “Kant with Sade” in Ecrits
  • Zupančič, “The Lie” in Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan

3/14 – The Four Discourses

  • Lacan, “The Master and the Hysteric” in Seminar XVII
    Žižek, “Four Discourses, Four Subjects” in Sic 2: Cogito and the Unconscious

Find all Pdfs Here

 

Reading Group is Back: Introducing Lacan Demystified

19 Jan

READING GROUP: Lacan Demystified

3rx2wsReading group is back! This spring we are doing things a little different. For each week we have selected one Lacan text, and one secondary text. Read one, read both, read neither, it’s up to you! What is most important is that every Monday at 8:00pm we will come together to try and figure out what this notoriously obscure figure was really trying to get at. 

For the first week (Jan. 25th) we will be simply trying to introduce Lacan and see where the major points of his thought lie.

This week’s texts:

  • Lacan, “The Place, Origin and End of My Teaching” in My Teachings
  • Ragland-Sullivan, “Introduction” in Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

Free Pdfs of the Readings can be found: HERE

Location change: we will be meeting at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

Want some extra resources? Check out PEL’s episode on Lacan: HERE

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole winter, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

  • Sat., January 23, 8:00-5:00pm: 18th Summit Against Racism in 2016, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary – 616 N Highland Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

OTHER NEWS:

Dylan Trigg’s “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty” is now available at our YouTube channel here:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Lacan Demystified

1/25 – Introduction

  • Lacan, “The Place, Origin and End of My Teaching” in My Teachings
  • Ragland-Sullivan, “Introduction” in Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis

2/1 – From Freud to Lacan

  • Lacan,“The Freudian Thing, or The Meaning of the Return to Freud in Psychoanalysis” in Ecrits
  • Grose, “The Unconscious from Freud to Lacan” in Introductory Lectures on Lacan

2/8 – The Mirror Stage

  • Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” in Ecrits
  • Neill, “Exegesis of: The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience”

2/15 – The Lacanian Subject

  • Lacan, “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” in Ecrits
  • Fink, “The Lacanian subject” in The Lacanian subject: Between Language and Jouissance

2/22 – The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real

  • Lacan, “Rings of String” in Seminar XX
  • Delay, “The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real” in God is Unconscious

2/29 – Feminine Sexuality

  • Lacan, “On Jouissance” and “God and Woman’s Jouissance” in Seminar XX
  • Butler, “Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade” in Gender Trouble

3/7 – Ethics and Psychoanalysis

  • Lacan, “Kant with Sade” in Ecrits
  • TBD

3/14 – The Four Discourses

  • Lacan, “The Master and the Hysteric” in Seminar XVII
    Zizek, “Four Discourses, Four Subjects” in Sic 2: Cogito and the Unconscious

Find all Pdfs Here

 

This Week:

12 Jan

READING GROUP:
3rx2ws
It’s not quite time for reading group yet, but work is already well on its way to put together a reading list for “Lacan Demystified.” Be sure to join us again on Monday nights starting on January 25th.

We will be meeting at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole winter, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

Need to fill the deep lack at the center of your reading-group-less subjectivity? Why not head over to Duquesne for a lecture!

  • Fri, January 15, 14:30 – 15:30, JOHN WHITE (Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts), “On the Philosophical Origins of the Unconscious,” College Hall 105, Duquesne University.

OTHER NEWS:

Dylan Trigg’s “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty” is now available at our YouTube channel here:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in Lacan Demystified

Coming soon…

 

Happy Holidays

25 Dec

Happy Holidays.

heidegger_christmas_ornament-raabe68fb7af844e9b492dbf39b34860f_irbct_8byvr_512Sincerely,
– PCPN

Dylan Trigg Video Up

16 Dec

Thanks to a new computer and video software, Dylan Trigg’s “On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty” is finally available at our YouTube channel here:

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