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PROGRAM - 2009

Seminar "The Concept of the Semblant in Lacan's Teaching"
What is the semblant in psychoanalysis? Why did Lacan introduce this concept? What are its clinical applications? We will work with Lacan's Seminar XVIII "D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant" (Paris: Editions du Seuil, October 2006),and other texts of Lacan and also texts from Jacques-Alain Miller from his 1991-1992 Seminar: On the Nature of the Semblants,  and from other analysts.

Bi-weekly: Wednesdays at 8:30 pm
Barnard College, Room 405
Broadway and 117th St., NYC

DATES:
April 29
May 13 and 27
June 10 and 24

READINGS:
Jacques-Alain Miller’s Cover-Notes for Lacan’s Seminar: D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant (Paris: Editions du Seuil, October 2006)
The Concept of the Semblant by Russell Grigg
Lituraterre, by Jacques Lacan

Admission is free but you are requested to register with Maria Cristina Aguirre nyflag@yahoo.ca

Clinical Seminar - The Lacanian Interpretation in Clinical Cases
We will review clinical cases from the psychoanalytic literature and also from clinicians participating in the Seminar to elucidate, clarify and differentiate what we call the Lacanian Interpretation. Is there specificity or are all interpretations the same?

Bi-weekly: Wednesdays at 8:30 pm
Barnard College, Room 405
Broadway and 117th St., NYC

DATES:
April 22
May 6 and 20
June 3 and 17

READINGS:
Jacques-Alain Miller, Interpretation In Reverse, Psychoanalytical Notebooks # 2
Pierre-Gilles Gueguen, Discretion of the Analyst in the Post-Interpretative Era, Psychoanalytical Notebooks # 2
Guy Briole, The Dream – An Interpretation of the Subject, Psychoanalytical Notebooks # 2
Eric Laurent, The Pass and the Guarantee in the School, Psychoanalytical Notebooks # 2