Event overview
1st of the 2021 Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lectures
Respondent: Darian Leader (CFAR)
For an analyst, expounding a clinical example is no mere illustration of a pre-existing theory. Rather, the exposition serves as a laboratory for the formation of concepts and thus of the capacity for critiquing previous theories. In my presentation, I will put this claim to the test by examining the significance and function of “The Thing” (das Ding), “desire,” “the objects of the drives,” and “jouissance” in the field of transference. Lacan wrote in L’Étourdit that “formalisation is our goal, our ideal” because there is something indeterminable directly in the analytic act due to the infinite equivocity of language. But do we only have a choice between an “integral transmission” by virtue of a matheme, and non-knowledge?
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 25 May 2021 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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