A Reading Seminar with Susana Huler on The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI: Desire & Its Interpretation (Chapter 27)
London Society Reading Seminar
Desire and its Interpretation – The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VI
A Course of Seminars with Susana Huler
NEXT SESSION: Chapter XXVII
This final meeting of the Reading Seminar VI series will explore the last session of Desire and Its Interpretation, entitled ‘Toward Sublimation’. We will consider Lacan’s critique there of the appeal, in object relations theory, to a notion of ‘reality’ that obscures the place of desire in the speaking subject who “is caught up – just like we are – in the consequences and risks speech entails”. We will also explore the link Lacan makes between social conformism, cultural sublimation, and perversion as “a protest that […] arises in the dimension of desire”.
This session will include a short presentation by Aino-Marjatta Mäki and an extended commentary of this final session by Susana Huler.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS TICKET IS FOR A ZOOM MEETING FOR WHICH YOU WILL RECEIVE A LINK ON THE EVENING BEFORE THE EVENT AND AT 1PM ON THE DAY.
