Psychology After Lacan - Course Schedule

DEPT. OF POST-GRADUATE PSYCHOLOGY, CHRIST UNIVERSITY

OFFERS

CERTIFICATE COURSE

ON

PSYCHOLOGY AFTER LACAN

Classes will be held on 2 Saturday afternoons and 1 Sunday in Dec 2008, and 1 or 2 Sundays in Jan, Feb, and March 2009.

TENTATIVE DATES FOR CLASSES (DEC 08 – MAR 09)

Ø Dec 06 (Saturday) 2-6 pm

Session 1: Lacan: Life and works

Readings: (1) “Jacques-Marie Emile Lacan: Curriculum Vitae 1901-81”, in Lacan in Contexts, David Macey, Verso, 1988, pp 210-255.

Ø Dec 07 (Sunday) 2-6 pm

Session 2: Sigmund Freud: The Archaeology of the Unconscious

Screening: (1) Sigmund Freud: The Archaeology of the Unconscious. This film would help us get a grip of the problems Freud had encountered in his medical career; it would also help us see why a medical doctor flirting with questions related to the neurological, moves after the aphasia book to questions relating to the ‘logic of the mind’, a logic menaced by the restlessness of the illogical; it would also show how Freud’s ‘method’ differs fundamentally from other epistemo-affective intersubjective encounters.

Readings: (1) Lear, J. 2005. Freud - New York and London: Routledge.

Ø Dec 13 (Saturday) 2-6 pm

Session 3: Lacan and his Return to Freud – I – Readings: (1) Lear, J. 2005. Freud - New York and London: Routledge.

Ø Jan 18 (Sunday) 10-5 pm

Session 4: Lacan and his Return to Freud – II

Readings: (1) Lear, J. 1998. Open Minded: Working Out the Logic of the Soul, pp. 1-55 – Harvard University Press, containing three chapters – (a) Preface: The King and I, (b) On Killing Freud (again) and (c) Knowingness and Abandonment: An Oedipus of Our time.

(We would like to supplement this session with the audio recording of an interview of Ashish Nandy taken on the 23^rd and the 24^th of June, 2008.)

Session 5: The Uncanny of Subjectivity

Screening of Luis Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou [1928]

Calvino, I. 1983. “Reading a Wave” in Mr. Palomar, pp. 1-3.

Kafka, F. 1916. Metamorphosis, pp. 11-52.

Flax, J. 1993. “Multiples: On the Contemporary Politics of Subjectivity” in Disputed Subjects: Essays on Psychoanalysis, Politics and Philosophy, pp. 92-110 – New York and London: Routledge.

Session 6: Freudian Understanding of Subjectivity

Freud, S. 1925. “A Note on the Mystic Writing Pad” in General Psychological Theory, Chapter XIII, pp. 207-212.

Lear, J. 1998. “Restlessness, Phantasy, and the Concept of Mind” in Open Minded: Working out the Logic of the Soul, pp. 80-122. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Ø Feb 08 (Sunday) 10-5 pm

Session 7: Lacanian Understanding of Subjectivity

Lacan, J. 2006. “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” in Ecrits (trans. Bruce Fink), pp. 671-702 – New York, London: W. W. Norton and Company.

Session 8: Imaginary

Readings: “From the Imaginary to the Symbolic”, in Jacques Lacan, Jonathan Scott Lee, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1991, pp 31-71.

Ø Feb 22 (Sunday) 10-5 pm

Session 9: Symbolic

Readings: “From the Symbolic to the Real”, in Jacques Lacan, Jonathan Scott Lee, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1991, pp 72-99.

Session 10: Real as Rem(a)inder

Readings: “The Impossible Real”, in Jacques Lacan, Jonathan Scott Lee, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1991, pp 133-170.

Ø March 01 (Sunday) 10-5 pm

Session 11: Lacan and Language

Readings: “The Psychoanalyst as Textual Analyst”, in Jacques Lacan, Jonathan Scott Lee, The University of Massachusetts Press, 1991, pp 100-132.

Session 12: Lacan and the Clinic

Ø March 08 (Sunday) 10-5 pm

Session 13: Lacan “On the Limits of Knowledge”

Session 14: Lacan “On the Limits of Love”: There is no such thing as a Sexual Relationship

Venue: Dept of PG Psychology, Main Blk, I Flr.

For any clarification please contact Mr. Diptarup Chowdhury, Course Co-ordinator, Dept of PG Psychology at diptarup.chowdhury@christuniversity.in / Cell-9886289844, or meet him personally anytime from 4 to5 pm at the dept.