APW

is pleased to announce a Clinical Study Weekend held at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA Saturday and Sunday, 8 9 October 2011 on Jacques Lacans Seminar 24:

Love is the Failure of the Unbewoops

(Linsu que sait de lune-bvue, saile mourre) Registrants for the study weekend will receive a privately produced English translation of the seminar. Speakers will include: Dan Collins (Buffalo), Patricia Gherovici (Philadelphia), Liz Monahan (Dublin), Dany Nobus (London), Eve Watson (Dublin) The format will include speakers presentations and roundtable discussion.

Long ago, I happened to say, imitating a famous painter, I dont seek, I find. At the point Im at now, I dont find as long as I dont seek. Lacan, Seminar 24 Seminar 24 (1976 1977) comes quite late in Lacans career, and many who are unfamiliar with his work in this period may be put off by the dense wordplay of the seminars title and its abstruse discussions of topology. But in many ways, the late Lacan is surprisingly straightforward. In this seminar, Lacan provides a kind of condensation and summation of his late work. The tone is often conversational and intimate. In addition, Seminar 24 is one of Lacans most clinically relevant seminars, with important remarks on of psychosis, neurosis, and interpretation. Participants on the APW study weekend will have a opportunity to discuss the clinical worth of Lacans late work.

HOW TO REGISTER The early registration window for APWs Study Weekend on Lacans Seminar 24 closes on August 31st. Registration fees for the weekend are $180 until August 31 and $220 after August 31. All registrants will receive a copy of Seminar 24 in English. To register, go the registration page on APWs website (apwonline.org). Just fill out the online registration form and click on submit. Payment option 1: Click the Buy Now button to be directed to PayPal to pay by PayPal or credit card. Payment option 2: If youd rather pay by check, simply fill out the online form and click submit so that we have your information; then, mail a check for your registration to: APW PO Box 281 Buffalo, NY 14224 Once we receive your paid registration, well send you a copy of Seminar 24 translated into English.

HOTELS The weekend of 8-9 October will be a very busy one in Pittsburgh with many events going on. We recommend that you book your accommodations early. Two hotels we recommend are both within walking distance of Duquesne: The Pittsburgh Marriott City Center 112 Washington Place, Pittsburgh 412-471-4000 Doubletree Hotel and Suites One Bigelow Square, Pittsburgh 412-281-5800

PROGRAM The sessions for the study weekend will run from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day. The morning session will run from 9:00 to noon and the afternoon from 2:00 to 5:00. On Saturday morning well ask participants to gather at 8:30 for registration.
Saturday, 8 October 9:00 - 12:00 Dan Collins Chomskyan Sentences Dan will argue that the title of the seminar is notor not simplyJoycean, but is rather Lacans answer to the Chomskyan habit of creating sentences to show the difference between deep structure and surface structure. Chomskys sentences rely on semantics to reveal grammar while Lacans do the opposite. Reflecting upon the seminars comments on poetic interpretation, Dan will discuss the clinical implications of Lacans approach. 2:00 - 5:00 Eve Watson with Liz Monahan (respondent) Making Psychoanalysis More Scientific: From the Tragedy of Myth to the Knotting of the Symptom Eve will trace Lacans move away from the Freudian unconscious to what he designates as the specifically Lacanian unconscious that he refers to in The Inauguration of the Clinical Program as he moves from the Freudian Oedipal myth to the notion of the sinthome. Eve will also focus on textual points in Seminar 24 where Lacan underlines this move and trace them in his earlier work, in particular in Seminars 9 (Identification) and 17 (The Other Side of Psychoanalysis). Liz will respond to Eves presentation. Sunday, 9 October 9:00 - 12:00 Patricia Gherovici Fail Better: Lacans Symptom Patricia starts with Lacans idea of the unconscious as failure or insuccess so as to explore Freuds failures as well. She tackles the notion of failure via Beckett and Blanchot in order to underline Lacans originality when he moved from the symptom to the sinthome. The sinthome is a way of failing but of failing better (Beckett). Patricia traces the move from Oedipus to the sinthome and surveys its main practical uses in the clinic. The sinthome can separate a child from a mother or a subject from its symptom without the direct intervention of the father/phallus. 2:00 - 5:00 Dany Nobus Once They Were Poets: The Function and Field of Sonority and Meaning in Psychoanalysis Dany will explore the very last pages of the seminar, in which Lacan states that hes not enough of a poet, in relation to the notion of lalangue and the significance of meaning for the end of analysis.

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