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The 2007-2008 curriculum of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis is now online.

Lacan and Badiou’s Ontology Of The Void

This Seminar is co-sponsored by the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies.

With the publication of 11 English translations of his books within the last 8 years, Alain Badiou has quickly emerged as a central figure in contemporary thought. His interventions in fields as diverse as philosophy, aesthetics, ethics, political theory, and psychoanalysis have become important yet controversial touchstones in current debates. Badiou goes further than any other philosopher of his generation to bring Lacan’s intervention in psychoanalysis to bear on broader ontological and epistemological problematics. Distinctly Lacanian concerns—such as the constitutive relation between excess and void, the phallus as a function of the “count for one,” the retroactivity of après coup and the “traversal of phantasy,” as well as the importance of the matheme and set theory—all play essential roles in Badiou’s critical reconception of the “event.” This seminar will introduce participants to Badiou’s theory through close readings of his key philosophical text, Being and Event, which Continuum Press has recently released in English translation.

The seminar will meet at 819 Macarthur Boulevard in Oakland for 6 two-hour sessions every other Sunday beginning in mid-July. For more details, please write Scott Ferguson at sferg@berkeley.edu or phone him at (510) 834.4480.

A local San Francisco Bay Area event which may be of interest - the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute presents 'Film, Food & Freud', a showing of the film 'Swimming Pool' followed by a presentation and group discussion. This takes place in San Francisco on Saturday, April 28 2007 from 10:45 am to 2:15 pm, and includes lunch. See the flyer for further information.

The Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis presents Research in Psychoanalysis, Cultures and Anthropology.

Purpose: to study and explore the relationship between the Unconscious and cultural variations, particularly but not exclusively non-western cultures - to clarify the relationship between psychoanalysis, anthropology, thnopsychoanalysis and cross-cultural psychology.
Themes: the unconscious and cultural differences, "unconsciouses & "linguisteries", psychoanalytic aspects of migration and exile, bilingualism in the clinic, cultures, sexualities and gender variations, intercultural conflicts (individual and social).
Process: Readings, discussions, text presentations, case presentation.
Contact: Philippe Gendrault 415-289-7033.

The 2006-2007 curriculum (PDF) of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis is now online.

The San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies (SFSLS) presents a Second Look: Lacanian Analysis and Contemporary Cinema, a screening and discussion of Jane Campion’s In the Cut (2003) starring Meg Ryan, Mark Rufalo, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Presenters:

Diane Borden, Ph.D.  – Chair, Departments of English and Film, University of the Pacific

“Disarticulation and Female Abjection”

John Gasperoni, Ph.D. – Director of Training, Tenderloin Outpatient Clinic

“A spade is a Spade?”

Discussant:  Marilyn Fabe, Ph.D. – Lecturer in Film Studies, UC-Berkeley

Date:               Saturday, February 18

Time:              12:30 – 5:00 pm

Location:        142 Dwinelle Hall (Nestrick Auditorium) – UC Berkeley

Free admission (Contributions in support of SFSLS are welcome and memberships are available). The SFSLS is a non-profit organization.  

For further information contact: Eric Essman (epessman@lbl.gov or 510.486.5750)

Previous programs in this series have featured: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, David Mamet’s Homocide, Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run and David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive – films that are controversial, mysterious, spirited, admired or condemned but under-appreciated, films that we believe deserve… a Second Look.

The San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies has set up an electronic mailing list to inform interested parties about upcoming news and events.

The 2005-2006 curriculum of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis is now online.

The San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies presents 'a Second Look', its annual Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Cinema series. The program this year will be a screening and discussion of David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive.