| Lutecium a non-school of Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis San Francisco, California |
| The Neu / erotics of Psychoanalytic Theory and Case Formulation A Feminist Approach Seminar with Rebecca Bauknight Ph.D. |
"Desire is the central point or crux of the entire economy we deal with in analysis. If we fail to take it into account, we are necessarily
led to adopt as our only guide what is symbolized by the term 'reality,' a reality existing in a social context." - Jacues Lacan
We will first approach the reading of any textual material through an Althusserian lens which will include the idea of contradiction and
the idea that a personal unconscious, hence a symptom, is embedded within all discourse. We will open to the idea underlining how
the jouissance of writing is related to the author’s attempts to further the writing of the World within a university discourse as
extrapolated through Lacan’s phantasm seminar. We will look at writings that are not so anxious to write the world… and that leave
some aspects unwritten through the ambiguity of poetics. For example, Lacan’s choice of a free associative and poetic writing and
speaking style …enables perhaps a greater encounter with the idiosyncratic subjective space that enables a metabolization of
understanding “reality” or truth rather than swallowing “truth” whole… which forces mimicry rather than …a new speech about a text
or theory that is being disseminated. It is precisely at this point that we enter into the Other jouissance.
This will lead us into approaching the idea of a neu / erotics of speech… how various character structures may work speech in
service of the phallic jouissance which is mimetic and repetitive in the Bhaktinian sense. We will explore the Deleuze’s example of the
idea that the manifesto and contract are ways through which the sadist and masochist, respectively, organize around speech
demands of the Other. We will also look at obsessive, hysterical, and psychotic ways that speech is rendered which, we will note,
bleeds into the theoretical pieces, discussions, discourses, and pedagogy through which psychoanalysis is divined.
We will begin to deconstruct case studies in order to understand how theoretical formulations of cases can also work along
symptomatic lines... wherein transferences are related to particular positions with regard to neu /erotics in relation not only to the
patients’ linguistic productions but to the institutional languaging and dissemination of psychoanalytic dogma and “truth” as well.
These transferences to “discourses” can easily lead one away from understanding desire within speech. Where does on defend
against the Other jouissance as opposed to those who perhaps are overinvested in shoring up the more phallic jouissance… that
could lead to major impediments in crossing the fantasm? We will then entertain the question of Lacan’s feminization of the subject
regarding his emphasis of the Other jouissance in his later work.
led to adopt as our only guide what is symbolized by the term 'reality,' a reality existing in a social context." - Jacues Lacan
We will first approach the reading of any textual material through an Althusserian lens which will include the idea of contradiction and
the idea that a personal unconscious, hence a symptom, is embedded within all discourse. We will open to the idea underlining how
the jouissance of writing is related to the author’s attempts to further the writing of the World within a university discourse as
extrapolated through Lacan’s phantasm seminar. We will look at writings that are not so anxious to write the world… and that leave
some aspects unwritten through the ambiguity of poetics. For example, Lacan’s choice of a free associative and poetic writing and
speaking style …enables perhaps a greater encounter with the idiosyncratic subjective space that enables a metabolization of
understanding “reality” or truth rather than swallowing “truth” whole… which forces mimicry rather than …a new speech about a text
or theory that is being disseminated. It is precisely at this point that we enter into the Other jouissance.
This will lead us into approaching the idea of a neu / erotics of speech… how various character structures may work speech in
service of the phallic jouissance which is mimetic and repetitive in the Bhaktinian sense. We will explore the Deleuze’s example of the
idea that the manifesto and contract are ways through which the sadist and masochist, respectively, organize around speech
demands of the Other. We will also look at obsessive, hysterical, and psychotic ways that speech is rendered which, we will note,
bleeds into the theoretical pieces, discussions, discourses, and pedagogy through which psychoanalysis is divined.
We will begin to deconstruct case studies in order to understand how theoretical formulations of cases can also work along
symptomatic lines... wherein transferences are related to particular positions with regard to neu /erotics in relation not only to the
patients’ linguistic productions but to the institutional languaging and dissemination of psychoanalytic dogma and “truth” as well.
These transferences to “discourses” can easily lead one away from understanding desire within speech. Where does on defend
against the Other jouissance as opposed to those who perhaps are overinvested in shoring up the more phallic jouissance… that
could lead to major impediments in crossing the fantasm? We will then entertain the question of Lacan’s feminization of the subject
regarding his emphasis of the Other jouissance in his later work.
| This Seminar meets 6pm - 8pm on Thursdays: 1/7, 1/21, 2/4, 2/18, 3/4, 3/18 Flood Building, 870 Market Street, San Francisco |
