Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network

READING GROUP: Lacan Demystified

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

READING GROUP: Lacan Demystified

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

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 (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: Lacan Demystified

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. 

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

READING GROUP:

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.

Sincerely,
– PCPN

READING GROUP:

Reading group announcement: next Spring we will be seeking to unpack the notorious obfuscator Jacques Lacan — particularly as he has been picked up by philosophy — with a series entitled “Lacan Demystified.” Be sure to join us again on Monday nights starting in late January.

Join us tomorrow (Monday) night at 8:00pm as we conclude our Fall series, “PHILOSOPHY and HORROR,” with a discussion of excerpts from Richard Kearney’s Strangers, Gods, and Monsters (chapter 4).

As always, the text is available as a pdf HERE.

We will be meeting at 3929 Cabinet Way, Pittsburgh (BYOB) until we can establish a more permanent location.

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 Fall, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

None this week.

OTHER NEWS:

The Partially Examined Life’s Q+A and live podcast from this year’s Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Conference (un)commons: theory and public space are now up and can be found on iTunes or at PEL’s site: HERE.

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in PHILOSOPHY and HORROR

10/26: Eugene Thacker, In The Dust of this Planet, Preface and Chapter 3.
11/02: Eugene Thacker, Tentacles Longer Than Night, Chapter 1
11/09: Dylan Trigg, The Thing, Preface and Chapter 1
11/16: Dylan Trigg, The Thing, Chapter 2
11/23: Graham Harman, Weird Realism, Part 1 (pp.1-27)
11/30: Graham Harman, Weird Realism, Part 1 (pp.28-52)
12/07: Anna Powell, Deleuze and the Horror Film, pp. 1-11, 154-174
12/14: Richard Kearney, Strangers, Gods, and Monsters, Chapter 4.

READING GROUP:

Reading group announcement: next Spring we will be seeking to unpack the notorious obfuscator Jacques Lacan — particularly as he has been picked up by philosophy — with a series entitled “Lacan Demystified.” Be sure to join us again on Monday nights starting in late January.

Join us tomorrow (Monday) night at 8:00pm as we continue our Fall series, “PHILOSOPHY and HORROR,” with a discussion of excerpts from Anna Powell’s Deleuze and the Horror Film, pp. 1-11, 154-174.

As always, the text is available as a pdf HERE.

We will be meeting at 3929 Cabinet Way, Pittsburgh (BYOB) until we can establish a more permanent location.

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 Fall, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

None this week.

OTHER NEWS:

The Partially Examined Life’s Q+A and live podcast from this year’s Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Conference (un)commons: theory and public space are now up and can be found on iTunes or at PEL’s site: HERE.

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in PHILOSOPHY and HORROR

10/26: Eugene Thacker, In The Dust of this Planet, Preface and Chapter 3.
11/02: Eugene Thacker, Tentacles Longer Than Night, Chapter 1
11/09: Dylan Trigg, The Thing, Preface and Chapter 1
11/16: Dylan Trigg, The Thing, Chapter 2
11/23: Graham Harman, Weird Realism, Part 1 (pp.1-27)
11/30: Graham Harman, Weird Realism, Part 1 (pp.28-52)
12/07: Anna Powell, Deleuze and the Horror Film, pp. 1-11, 154-174
12/14: Richard Kearney, Strangers, Gods, and Monsters, Chapter 4.

READING GROUP:

Join us tomorrow (Monday) night at 8:00pm as we continue our Halloween-season series, “PHILOSOPHY and HORROR,” with a second discussion of Graham Harman’s Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (pp.28-52).

As always, the text is available as a pdf HERE.

We will be meeting at 3929 Cabinet Way, Pittsburgh (BYOB) until we can establish a more permenant location.

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 Fall, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

Friday, 2:30pm – Mark Anderson (Belmont University): “Melville and Nietzsche: Living the Death of God”

OTHER NEWS:

The Partially Examined Life’s Q+A and live podcast from this year’s Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Conference (un)commons: theory and public space are now up and can be found on itunes or at PEL’s site: HERE.

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in PHILOSOPHY and HORROR

10/26: Eugene Thacker, In The Dust of this Planet, Preface and Chapter 3.
11/02: Eugene Thacker, Tentacles Longer Than Night, Chapter 1
11/09: Dylan Trigg, The Thing, Preface and Chapter 1
11/16: Dylan Trigg, The Thing, Chapter 2
11/23: Graham Harman, Weird Realism, Part 1 (pp.1-27)
11/30: Graham Harman, Weird Realism, Part 1 (pp.28-52)
12/07: Anna Powell, Deleuze and the Horror Film, pp. 1-11, 154-174
12/14: Richard Kearney, Strangers, Gods, and Monsters, Chapter 4.