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The New
Lacanian School (NLS) has taken as a point of departure the
fourth part of Lacan’s Seminar X, Anxiety, with the title
‘The Five Forms of the Object a. This follows
Jacques-Alain Miller’s proposal earlier as a guide for the
World Association of Psychoanalysis’s congress in April 2008
on ‘The objects a in the Analytic Experience’. The
NLS will contribute to the research by way of a particular
slant, that of the body.
The London
Society in turn will take up its own strand of work on the
object a, with each presenter having chosen the
aspect of object a which interests them.
Our work is
underpinned by the historical development of object a
as it emerges in the seminars which are available in
English. From ‘The Thing’ (Das Ding) through to Lacan’s
seminar X L’Angoisse (Anxiety – untranslated) to object a
and the gaze, separation, self-mutilation, the lost object
and its use in Seminar XVII The Other Side of
Psychoanalysis and transformation in seminar XX Encore. The
distinction between the clinic of the phallus and the clinic
of object a also emerges.
In order to
integrate our work with this historical perspective, a
reporter will comment on emerging themes in each session.
This commentary will be circulated.
References.
Jacques
Lacan Le Seminaire Livre X, L’Angoisse, Seuil,
Paris, 2004, 4th part, pp 247-390 (untranslated)
Jacques-Alain Miller. The object a in the analytic
experience Presentation to the Rome AMP Congress July
2006 Lacanian Compass 9,
http://www.lacan.com/LacanianCompass9miller.htm
Jacques-Alain Miller. Two approaches to anxiety.
Cause freudienne 58 pp61-100 or Lacanian ink 26
Further questions can be directed
to the Seminar organisers Richard Klein:
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to email and Julia Evans:
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24th November
Richard
Klein: Object a and separation
Noga Wine: Object
a, conceptualisation of the lack
Chair:
Penny Georgiou
Reporter:
Julia Evans
15th December
Ian Parker:
In Visible Signifiers
Veronique
Voruz: Object a and the desire of the analyst
Chair:
Vincent Dachy
Reporter:
Julia Evans
19th January
Alan Rowan:
The object body: trauma and psychosomatics
Julia Evans:
Object a and self-mutilation
Chair:
Richard Klein
Reporter:
Penny Georgiou
9th February - This seminar has now been
rescheduled to the 31st of May.
29th March
Vincent
Dachy: Do you hear the voice in my head?
Rik Loose:
The function of the object a within contemporary symptoms
and in relation to the body-event.
Chair:
Richard Klein
Reporter:
Julia Evans
10th May
Natalie
Wulfing: Object a and the impossible to say in analysis
Adrian
Price: Habeas corpus and its Haberdashery
Chair:
Richard Klein
Reporter:
Julia Evans
31st May
Penny
Georgiou: Object a, the body and knowledge
Roger
Litten: The calculability of object a in contemporary
discourses of risk
Chair: Alan
Rowan
Reporter:
Julia Evans
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