A Reading Seminar with Susana Huler – reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VI – Desire & Its Interpretation (Chapters 17-18)
London Society Reading Seminar
Desire and its Interpretation – The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book VI
A Course of Seminars with Susana Huler
“We shall resume our reading of Seminar VI from the lessons on Hamlet on and we shall come to know the use Lacan makes of the vector of desire in the direction of the cure. Lacan criticises analysis that works through identification and provokes the analysand to react with an acting-out of a perversion. This is read by him as a protest of the subject in defence of his desire. Lacan concludes that “Desire is the relation of the subject to his being.” (Susana Huler)
Chapters XVII & XVIII
Saturday, 23rd January 2021, 14.30-16.00
This session will discuss the next two chapters on Hamlet – “The Object Ophelia” and “Mourning and Desire”. In these pivotal chapters Lacan gives a new status to the object at stake in desire and fantasy and brings about a decisive moment in his teaching, where desire will no longer seen to be oriented by a signifier, but by an object. The relation between the object and the phallus provides a key to the reading of these chapters and of the shift of Hamlet’s position within the play, the close reading of which will reveal what Lacan here considers to be both the aim of interpretation and the true stake of desire.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS TICKET IS FOR A ZOOM MEETING FOR WHICH YOU WILL RECEIVE A LINK ON THE MORNING OF THE SEMINAR.
