The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XVIII: On a Discourse that Might Not be a Semblance
The Lacanian psychoanalysis reading group will continue by taking up Bruce Fink’s recently-published translation of Jacques Lacan’s 18th seminar, On a Discourse that Might Not be a Semblance. In this seminar, Lacan worked through questions of logic and writing to formalize his concept of sexuation, a category distinct from sex and gender. Unique to psychoanalysis, this concept clarifies the distinct ways that subjects engage with our jouissance (the substance of enjoyment and suffering that is at stake in clinical symptoms) and manage to play our social roles despite the fact that to be “female” or to be “male” is never anything but a semblance.
All members of our group are practicing clinicians, and our reading of this seminar is inflected by--indeed, directed towards--our work with our patients.
The first meeting will be held on Wednesday February 26th at 7:30pm, and subsequent meetings will be held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month via Zoom.
Contact:
Michael Mullahy
