Join us for a reading seminar of Lacan’s seminar on transference-love. I will be giving a seminar for the lovely Perrhesia School of Philosophy in Berlin.
Starts: 13 May – ends 10 June (5 Tuesdays)
Where: Golda Books and more, Anklamer Strasse 39, 10115 Berlin and online via Zoom
Time: 7 – 9 pm CET
Course description:
Plato’s Symposium is one of the essential philosophical texts – a dialogue no less – on love. In Seminar VIII: On Transference, Lacan devotes half a year to providing an in-depth reading of this text to uncover its hidden logic. Throughout his writings, Lacan offers many incisive statements about love, but this is one of the rare seminars in which the topic receives such an extensive treatment.
The seminar will take us on an in-depth reading of Plato’s dialogue, exploring the aporia of love its various characters proffer. As we will see, there is no one character – Socrates, for example – who delivers the Platonic message about love. The dialogical form allows more than one claim or truth to emerge: love, we will see, consists less in a single claim, than in the twists and turns of the dialogue itself; as if the Symposium is not a dialogue that stages the claims about love of different characters, but a series of psychoanalytic sessions involving the same person.
Link for registration (course 4)
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