A series of 5 seminars by Véronique Voruz in conversation with Dossia Avdelidi, Florencia F.C. Shanahan, Anne Lysy and Alexandre Stevens
NLS SEMINAR SERIES
Teachings of an Experience by Véronique Voruz (ONLINE)
A series of 5 seminars by Véronique Voruz in conversation with Dossia Avdelidi, Florencia F.C. Shanahan, Anne Lysy and Alexandre Stevens
DATES:
27 November 2021 with Florencia F.C. Shanahan
29 January 2022 with Anne Lysy
28 May 2022 – Conversation
ARGUMENT
The pass is an interpretation Lacan made to the analytic community.
Analysts are not produced by the acquisition of knowledge, or any amount of clinical experience. According to the Lacan of the Proposition of 67, an Analyst of the School is the logical product of the analytic discourse taken to its ultimate consequence; and it entails profound subjective reconfigurations for those that pursue it to its end.
In the past decade, the mechanisms for the nomination of AS in the various Schools of the WAP have worked well to the extent that there have been many more nominations over the past decade than in the years that spanned the Proposition and the re-actualising of the pass by Jacques-Alain Miller and Éric Laurent in 2010 within the ECF.
Having completed my mandate in October 2018, this seminar is dedicated to exploring, in the after-effect, what teachings can be drawn from the unprecedented experience that Lacan invented in order to set the analytic discourse distinctly and irrevocably apart from all other human practices of the social bond.
The purpose of this series of seminar is two-fold: to evaluate the dispositifs of the pass and the mandate, on the one hand, and to extract a modicum of knowledge on the constitution of human reality, on the other.
In the opening seminar, I will present the mechanism at its origin as well as current debates around the pass.
In the intermediary seminars, I will elaborate three points that have stood out for me as retaining considerable opacity during the experience of the mandate.
The first point concerns the question of destiny. What is destiny for psychoanalysis, if indeed speaking beings are to the utmost extent determined by the signifier and the jouissance that it carries? What is the share of belief in the actualisation of said destiny? How to disentangle destinal fiction from sinthomal fate? And what can be separated from, and what can’t?
The second has to do with the gaze and its implication in the constitution of the scopic field. Each one of us lives in an “image-world”, as Lacan put it in The Lacanian Phenomenon, or again, as he told Catherine Millot in a private conversation, “a world is the dream of a body”. What awakening is there from one’s scopic reality?
The third concerns the function of nomination: the nominations that pepper the course of an analysis, those that come from familial others, the ones we attribute to ourselves over the time of the experience, and finally, the nomination to the function of AS – two letters that irreversibly mark the speaking body that receives their imprint.
The concluding seminar will consider the continuing pertinence of the procedure in its clinical, epistemic and political dimensions, out of the teachings of an experience.
Véronique Voruz
PLEASE NOTE: THIS TICKET IS FOR A ZOOM MEETING FOR WHICH YOU WILL RECEIVE A LINK ON THE EVENING BEFORE THE EVENT AND AT 3:00PM ON THE DAY.
