A Series of Four Seminars by
Jean-Gerard Bursztein: Psychoanalyst
The Logic and Topology of Sexuation
Carmelite Parish Centre, Clarendon St., Dublin 2
Saturday March 7th 2009 (2pm – 4.30pm) in Edith Stein Room & Sunday March 8th, 2009
(10.30-12.30pm) in St. Therese’s Room
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Saturday May 2nd, 2009 (2pm – 4.30pm) in Edith Stein Room & Sunday May 3rd, 2009
(11am – 1pm) in St. Therese’s Room
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In 1905 Freud shocked his contemporaries by putting forward the view that adult sexuality was a developmental achievement and thus not something that could be understood by appeal to biology alone. Rather, he argued, sexual identity and adult sexual choices are contingent on how a subject negotiates his or her pathway through what Freud termed the Oedipus Complex – from – Freud stressed, an original point where human sexuality is polymorphous and minimally organised.
Such a view has remained both important and controversial even as the universality of the Oedipus Complex, as conceptualised by Freud, came to be questioned.
Lacan in his Seminar “Encore” (1972-73) radically re-evaluates the Freudian concept of the Oedipus Complex arguing for a new more rigorously defined way of understanding human sexuality, one which, however, insists that in human sexuality there is no one solution “for all”. This is because, as Lacan shows, human sexuality is a response to what he termed “the impossible” or Real, a point where something always fails – albeit if differently for men and for women. This seminar will focus on exploring Lacan’s work on the topic of human sexuality and related areas, paying particular attention to his use of logic and topology in his formulations on sexual difference
Jean-Gerard Bursztein practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Paris, He holds a doctorate in philosophy and his recent publications include the following:
On the difference between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, NEF, 2008.
Jouissance féminine et hypothèse mathématique du continu, NEF, 2008,
Introduction à la science psychoanalytic en 2007, NEF, 2007
La structure moebienne de la bisexualité, NEF, 2007
APPI Members €20. Non-Members €25, Students €10 per weekend
