Lectures on Lacan: From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI)

Next up in our live lecture series is Jacques Lacan’s pivotal 1968-1969 seminar From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI).

Seminar XVI is crucial for us in several ways. In addition to advancing several key themes we’ve been discussing in the series — notably, fantasy, the barred Other, drive satisfaction, and logics of repetition — Seminar XVI shows Lacan developing his much-discussed notion of surplus enjoyment, further extending his set theoretical work on the One, and paving the way for his renowned discursive turn in The Other Side of Psychoanalysis (Seminar XVII).

Given the length and importance of Seminar XVI, we’ll be taking our time with this one. From February to May, registered participants will receive a recorded lecture on Seminar XVI each week. Then, every other Friday from 10am-12pm PST / 1pm-3pm EST / 19:00-21:00 CET, we’ll meet for live Zoom discussions of these materials, paying special attention, as ever, to their implications for Lacanian theory and technique.

Schedule of Events:

2 February: Lecture 1 Posted || 9 February: Lecture 2 Posted || 10 February: Zoom Discussion. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters I-III.

16 February: Lecture 3 Posted || 23 February: Lecture 4 Posted || 24 February: Zoom Discussion. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters IV-VII.

2 March: Lecture 5 Posted || 9 March: Lecture 6 Posted || 10 March: Zoom Discussion. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters VIII-XI.

16 March: Lecture 7 Posted || 30 March: Lecture 8 Posted || 31 March: Zoom Discussion. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters XII-XV.

6 April: Lecture 9 Posted || 13 April: Lecture 10 Posted || 14 April: Zoom Discussion. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters XVI-XIX.

20 April: Lecture 11 Posted || 27 April: Lecture 12 Posted || 28 April: Zoom Discussion. Readings covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters **-XXIII.

4 May: Lecture 13 Posted || 11 May: Lecture 14 Posted || 12 May: Zoom Discussion. Readings to be covered: Lacan, From an Other to the other, chapters XXIV-XXV.

About Prof. Dr. McCormick:

Samuel McCormick, Ph.D., is an award-winning teacher and scholar. He lectures widely on Lacanian psychoanalysis, is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, and was recently appointed EURIAS & Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark. His first book, Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals, won the Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression, the James A. Winans - Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, and the Everett Lee Hunt Award. His second book, The Chattering Mind: A Conceptual History of Everyday Talk, was recently published by the University of Chicago Press.

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