The Uncanny, 1909
Lacan in Australia will read and develop Freud’s famous paper over four sessions in September. Everyone is welcome. The sessions are free and online, and will be recorded. The text will be provided.
“The uncanny is in reality nothing new or alien, but something which is familiar and old-established in the mind and which has become alienated from it only through the process of repression.” —Freud
Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959 – 1960
This group has been meeting weekly and continuously since 2020 and we are currently reading Ethics, There is no fee, we are all online, we read out-loud, line-by-line, with commentary and discussion. The group is casual, everyone is welcome, and you may join in at any time.
Our next session is Wednesday 19 August.
Sophocles’ Antigone, 440 BC
Antigone wants to bury her dead brother Polynices; Creon forbids it. The resulting clash of wills, desires and laws – the tragedy – brings the house of Thebes to catastrophe.
Lacan in Australia performed Antigone in full, over two acts, in August, in preparation for Lacan’s extensive engagement with the play in his Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.
Available now by recording.
A Lacanian psychoanalysis emphasises the function of desire, the division of the subject, and the structure and use of language.
Analysis is available in person in Melbourne CBD, online via Zoom, or by phone.