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Past Events for 2010
Study Days
20 February 2010 - for details click here
13 March 2010 Study Day was replaced by a joint workshop on 'Semblants' with the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis - programme
17th April 2010 details
May 15th details
June 19th details
Friday 16 July to Sunday 18 July International Seminar with Marie-Hélène Brousse.'Ethics and Politics in the Later Lacan' had to be cancelled click here for more details
Fundamental Texts
February 24th, 2010 - session of 23 April 1958, chapter 19 in the French.
March 10th: continuing from above
March 24th: continuing
April 14th Continue with week 20 (in the French), Session of 30 April 1958, which is the session on ‘Le rêve de la belle bouchère’, or the smoked salmon dream, from The Interpretation of Dreams.
April 28th. Continue with the session of 7 May, week 21 (in the French), on ‘Les rêves de “l’eau qui dort”’.
There are two important references in this chapter: Michael Balint’s “Genital love”, chap 7 of his Primary love and psycho-analytic technique, and the dream of an hysteric reported by Freud in The Interpretation of dreams, Chap 5, section A, part I, beginning “An intelligent and cultivated young woman, ..”. There is also a third, passing reference, to Lévi-Strauss’s Tristes Tropiques.
May 12th: session of 7 May, week 21 (in the French), on ‘Les rêves de “l’eau qui dort”’, picking up the thread from p. 374, where Lacan begins to speak of Freud
May 26th: Chapter 22, session of May 14th.
June 9th - session cancelled
June 23rd. The relevant session remains that of 14 May 1958.