These six seminars will form our work towards the forthcoming 2022 Congress of the New Lacanian School “Fixation and Repetition”
LONDON SOCIETY SEMINAR
“The Castration Complex, Fixation, Repetition”
with Susana Huler and guests
It is an original helplessness that pushes the infant to face the urgencies of life through repetitions that have their beginnings in points of fixation. Freud tried, in 1937, to clarify the limits of the psychoanalytical treatment: the circumstances of their endings were particularly problematic, as the refusal to accept castration would be, for both sexes, a motive for repetitions and the refusal of change. This was “a bedrock” that would be thoroughly investigated by Lacan, who would make the end of analysis and its theorization a real compass for the analytical work.
We see in analysis the repetitions that form systems. Whilst one of these systems is what Freud called the “castration complex”, we can discover as well, with the help of the late teachings of Lacan, the system of repetitions that he called “sinthome”. Conceiving symptoms as sinthomes became possible when jouissance was apprehended as outside the law of the Oedipus Complex: jouissance as a real without law that obeys only the Freudian Wiederhollungszwang, the compulsion to repeat, to strike again and again.
The seminar will be held over six meetings in a format that includes short interventions from colleagues who have been invited to bring their reading of some key texts*. It will be an occasion to dialogue and discuss in our community – from a particular angle – the different aspects of the forthcoming 2022 Congress of the New Lacanian School, which is on the theme of ‘Fixation and Repetition’.
Susana Huler
On Saturdays 14:30-16:00 (UK time) | Online & In person
NEXT DATES:
18th December with Colin Wright & Philip Dravers
12th February with Roger Litten
19th March with Oriol Cobacho
7th May with Gabriela van den Hoven
11th June with Peggy Papada
PLEASE NOTE: THIS TICKET IS FOR A ZOOM MEETING FOR WHICH YOU WILL RECEIVE A LINK ON THE EVENING BEFORE THE EVENT AND AT 1:30PM ON THE DAY. ALSO, REGISTRATION FOR EACH SESSION IS REQUIRED
*Bibliography:
Freud:
- From the History of an Infantile Neurosis (The ‘Wolf Man’, 1914)
- Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through (1914)
- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1919)
- Analysis Terminable and Interminable (1937)
Lacan:
- Seminar IV (on Little Hans) (1956-57)
- The Signification of the Phallus (1958)
- L’Etourdit (1972)
- The Sinthome (1976)
Miller:
- The seminar on the Wolf Man (1987-88)
- Donc (1993-94)
- The Being and the One (2011)
