Seminar – Bruce Fink
Linda | in News & EventsA SEMINAR BY BRUCE FINK
“An Exploration of Seminar XVIII, On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance ”
On Fri 18th September (6p.m. -8p.m., followed by a wine reception) and Sat 19th September 2009 (10a.m. – 12.30p.m.)
In St Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4
Bruce Fink is a Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Member of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne, and Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University. He has translated many of Jacques Lacan’s works into English, including Ecrits and Seminar XX, Encore and his books include The Lacanian Subject and A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
The seminar will be based on a reading of Lacan’s seminar xviii, from 1970-71, D’un Discours qui ne Serait pas du Semblant (seminar xviii: On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance) which sees Lacan struggling with Freud’s theory of the Oedipus Complex, and reinterpreting it. The Saturday morning session will be more clinical. The seminar is open to all those interested in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Those attending are invited to read the seminar in advance so that there may be lots of discussion. A translation by Cormac Gallagher is available from Karnac Books (karnacbooks.com). Also the papers from the 2002 APPI congress, which had this theme, are published in The Letter, vol 27.
APPI Members €30, Non-Members €40, Students with student card €15 for weekend. As places are limited and demand is expected to be high you are urged to book in advance by sending a cheque (payable to APPI Ltd.) and details, including email address, to Mary Barry, APPI. c/o KSi Faulkner Orr – KSi House – 10 Aungier Street – Dublin 2, Ireland. All enquiries to paulineocallaghan1@gmail.com.
