The following courses are and were taught by members of Lacan Toronto. The only requirement for attendees is that they are interested in Lacanian studies and their application in the clinic and in the wider cultural world. There is no pre-registration required and the sessions are without charge. Distance attendance by Skype can be arranged with jehamilton@rogers.com
UPCOMING SESSIONS/COURSES
Stephanie Swales July 24, 2022.
Ona Neirenberg and Salvatore Guido July 10, 2022.
Sheldon George June 26, 2022.
Eve Watson June 12, 2022..
Daniel Adelman May 29, 2022.
Chris Vanderwees May 15, 2022.
Kristen Hennessy May 1, 2022.
Hilda Fernandez April 17, 2022.
PREVIOUS COURSES
Dan Collins November 22, 2021-April 3, 2022.
“Lacan on the Road” Syllabus
1. 21 November 2022 “Some Reflections on the Ego” (1951)
“The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real” (1953)
“Rome Discourse” (1953)
2. 5 December 2021 “Interview with Jacques Lacan” (L’Express) (1957)
“True Psychoanalysis, and False” (1958)
“Discourse to Catholics” (1960)
3. 19 December 2021 “Of Structure as an Inmixing of Otherness Prerequisite to Any Subject Whatever”(1966)
My Teaching (1967)
“The Mistaking of the Subject Supposed to Know” (1967)
“From Rome ’53 to Rome ’67: Psychoanalysis. Reason for a Defeat” (1967)
4. 9 January 2022 “Analyticon” (1969)
“Radiophonie” (1970)
“Tokyo Discourse” (1971)
5. 23 January 2022 “On Psychoanalytic Discourse” (1972)
“Death is in the Domain of Faith” (1972)
“Extraordinary Session of the Belgian School of Psychoanalysis” (1972)
6. 6 February 2022 “Psychoanalysis in Its Reference to the Sexual Relation” (1973)
“Excursus” (1973)
7. 20 February 2022 Television (1974)
“La Troisième” (1974)
“Freud Forever” (1974)
8. 6 March 2022 “The Lacanian Phenomenon” (1974)
“Conference in London” (1975)
“Geneva Lecture on the Symptom” (1975)
Lectures in America (1975)
9. 20 March 2022 “On James Joyce as a Symptom” (1976)
“Remarks on Hysteria” (1977)
“Aristotle’s Dream” (1978)
10. 3 April 2022 “Lecture at Professor Deniker’s Clinic, Hôpital Sainte-Anne” (1978)
“Overture to the First International Conference of the Freudian Field, Caracas”
(1980)
Rolf Flor November 7, 2021.
Josh Finkelstein October 24, 2021.
Judith Hamilton September 26 and October 10, 2021.
Derek Hook September 12, 2021.
Stephanie Swales July 25, 2021.
Elly Altman July 11, 2021.
Courtney Douds and Josh Finkelstein June 27, 2021.
Hilda Fernandez June 13, 2021.
Chris Vanderwees and Daniel Adleman May 16, 30, 2021. “Other Sides: Rhetoric and Psychoanalysis”
Joan Guenther – May 2, 2021 – “Pierre Bruno’s Lacan and Marx: The Invention of the Symptom”
Ian Parker – April 18,2021 – “Psychoanalysis and Marxism”
Kristen Hennessy – March 7, 2021 – “Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Children”
Dan Collins – November 29, December 13, December 20, 2020. January 10, 24, February 7, 21, March 7, 21, April 4, 2021. “On the Drive”. These sessions are from 1:30-3:00, online on the Zoom program.
Sergio Benvenuto – November 22, 2020 – “On Perversions”
Bruce Fink – November 15, 2020 – “Lacan’s Seminar VI: Desire and its Interpretation”
Dan Collins – November 1, 2020 – “On Hamlet”
Eve Watson October 18, 2020 – “The Analyst’s Desire and the Psychoanalytic Group”
Carlos Rivas – October 4, 2020 – “From Sin to Pride”
Carlos Rivas – September 20, 2020. “Sesuality and Sexuation in Gay Men”
Judith Hamilton – September 6, 2020. – “Lacan, Covid and Politics”
July 2020
June 2020
May 2020
April 2020
Dan Collins – November 17, December 1, December 15, 2019. January 5, 19, February 2, 16, March 1, 15, 29, 2020. “Metapsychology”. These sessions are from 1:30-3:00, on the 2nd floor of the Deer Park Library, side door, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto.
Reza Naderi – April 14, 28, May 12, 26, June 9, 2019. Seminar on Badiou. Using the text “Manifest for Philosophy”. These sessions are from 1:30-3:00, on the 2nd floor of the Deer Park Library, side door, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto.
Dan Collins – January 6, February 3, 17, March 3, March 17, 2019. “Interpretation”. These sessions are from 1:30-3:00, on the 2nd floor of the Deer Park Library, side door, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto.
Dan Collins – October 14, 28, November 11, 25, December 9, 2018. “Interpretation”. These sessions are from 1:30-3:00, on the 2nd floor of the Deer Park Library, side door, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto.
Judith Hamilton, September 16, 30, 2018. Theoretical Studies: On Truth. Preparation for the APW meeting in October 5-7, 2018. These sessions were from 1:30-3:00, on the 2nd floor of the Deer Park Library, side door, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto.
Chris Vanderwees, July 8 and 22, August 5, 2018. Theoretical Studies – The death drive, from pre-Freud through Freud and Lacan. These sessions were from 1:30-3:00, on the 2nd floor of the Deer Park Library, side door, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto.
May 20 – Jun 3 and 17, 2018.
Clinical Studies – using the book edited by Carol Owens and Stephanie Quinn called “Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child”, we will study together chapters that illuminate clinical approaches to the patients we see in our clinics
March 11 – May 6, 2018.
Dan Collins – March 11, and 25, April 8, and 22, May 6, 2018. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. These sessions are from 1:30-3:00, on the 2nd floor of the Deer Park Library, side door, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto.
January 11 – February 25, 2018.
Clinical Studies – using the book by Thomas Svolos entitled “Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis”, we will study together chapters that illuminate clinical approaches to the patients we see in our clinics
October 22 – December 17, 2017.
Dan Collins – October 22, November 5, and 19, December 3, and 17, 2017. The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. These sessions are from 1:30-3:00, on the 2nd floor of the Deer Park Library, side door, at 40 St. Clair Ave. East, Toronto.
July 23 – October 8, 2017.
Clinical Studies – using the book by Yael Baldwin entitled “Let’s Keep Talking: Lacanian Tales of Love, Sex, and other Catastrophes” we are studying, chapter by chapter, the case histories in order to identify elements of Lacanian formulations and technique. From 1:30-3:00 on July 23 (2 chapters), September 10, September 24, October 8, 2017.
April – June 2017
Dan Collins – April 16, 30, May 14, 28, June 11, 2017. “The Signifier”
January – April 2017.
Professor Garry Leonard – January 22, February 5, 19, March 5, March 19, April 2, 2017. “We Are Not in Kansas Anymore (Enjoy It!): The Decline of the Master Signifier and the Rise of the Capitalist Discourse in Hollywood Melodrama and Film Noir”
November – December, 2016.
Dan Collins – November 6, 20, December 4, 18, 2016 and January 8, 2017; 1:30-3:00. Evolution of Lacanian Concepts: the Other, the other, the phallus, jouissance, the subject.
October 9, 2016 – Dan Collins
Lacan, Jacques, “Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Female Sexuality” (1958)
Lacan, Jacques, “The Signification of the Phallus” (1958)
September 25, 2016 – Debora Nitkin
Freud, Sigmund, “Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria [‘Dora’]” (1905)
September 11, 2016 – Presentation by members of:
Freud, Sigmund, “Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman” (1920)
Jones, Ernest, “The Early Development of Female Sexuality” (1927)
Riviere, Joan, “Womanliness as a Masquerade” (1929)
Freud, Sigmund, “Female Sexuality” (1931)
September – October, 2016 – 1:30-3:00 – Group preparation for the Special Meeting October 23, 2016, with Eve Watson and Dan Collins, on “Woman Now and Then: Psychoanalysis and Female Sexuality”.
June 2016.
Chris Vanderwees – 2 sessions: June 11 and 25, 2016. Lacan and Photography. At the Deer Park Public Library, 2nd floor, 40 St. Clair Ave. East, from 1:30-3:00.
April – May 2016
Concetta Principe – 2 sessions: April 30 and May 14, 2016. Secular Messianism and Saul/Paul of Tarsus. At the Deer Park Public Library, 2nd floor, 40 St. Clair Ave. East, from 1:30-3:00.
March – April 2016.
Sean Meggeson – Seminar 23: Joyce, the Sinthome and Clinical Practice. At the Deer Park Public Library, 2nd floor, 40 St. Clair Ave. East, from 1:30-3:00. 3 sessions: Saturday March 19, Sunday April 3, Saturday April 16, 2016.
January – March 2016.
Dan Collins – The Late Lacan: Seminars 22, 23, 24 and 25. At the Deer Park Public Library, 2nd floor, 40 St. Clair Ave. East, from 1:30-3:00. Alternating Saturdays, beginning January 9, 2016. 5 sessions: January 9, 23, February 6, 20, Sunday March 6, 2016.
September – October 2015. Psychoanalysis, Linguistics and the Clinic. At the Deer Park Library, 2nd floor, 40 St, Clair Ave. East, from 1:30-3:00. Saturdays, September 5, 19, October 3, 17, 31, 2016. No charge for these sessions. Given by Dan Collins.
This seminar will explore what psychoanalysis has to learn from linguistics. Lacan famously borrowed his linguistic theory from Ferdinand de Saussure, and we’ll explore Lacan’s Saussurian contribution to the psychoanalytic clinic. Beyond that, though, we’ll ask what other branches of linguistics and linguistic concepts—such as semantics, semiotics, pragmatics, grammar, logic, rhetoric, grammaticalization, code switching, and language-contact phenomena—have to add to psychoanalytic theory. We’ll also look at what Lacan borrowed from specific linguists and philosophers of language such as Peirce, Frege, Russell, and Jakobson. We’ll discover that the Sausurrian theory of the signifier is just one contribution to that linguistics. Finally, we’ll venture beyond linguistics to consider why Lacan, in the end, calls psychoanalysis a genre of poetry.
September 5 Lacan and Saussure
September 19 The Fields of Linguistics
October 3 Naming and the Law
October 17 Lacan and Jakobson
October 31 A Clinic of Poetry
November – December 2015. Introduction to Seminar 23: James Joyce and the Sinthome. At the Deer Park Library, 2nd floor, 40 St. Clair Ave. East, from 1:30-3:00. Saturdays. No charge for these sessions. Given by Sean Meggeson
November 14 –
December 12 –
November 28 – Concetta Principe – a Lacanian Analysis of Messianism, including work on Saul/Paul of Tarsus.
May – July 2015. Topics in Lacan Studies. At the Deer Park Library, 2nd floor, 40 St. Clair. Ave. East, from 1:30-3:00. Saturdays. No charge for these sessions.
May 9 – Psychosis – Ali Taheri
May 23 – Psychosis – Ali Taheri
June 6 – Gay Identity from a Lacanian perspective I – Carlos Rivas
June 20 – Gay Identity from a Lacanian perspective II – Carlos Rivas
July 4 – Ethics of Psychoanalysis – Seminar 7 – Randall Terada
July 18 – Ethics of Psychoanalysis – Seminar 7 – Randall Terada
May – July 2015. The Speaking Body in Lacan. At Ste. 5016, 3080 Yonge Street (at Lawrence and Yonge St.), from 11:00-12:30. Sundays. Given by Ines Anderson and Debora Nitkin. See references below.
May 17 – The mirror stage – Debora Nitkin
May 31 – The body in Lacan – Ines Anderson
June 14 – Wording the body – Debora Nitkin
June 28 – The mortified and the sexed body – Ines Anderson
July 12 – Anorexia and bulimia in Lacan – Ines and Debora
References for this course:
Bassols, Miquel (2015) The Image Body and the Speaking Body. Introduction to the WAP Congress in Rio de Janeiro, April 2016.
Freud, Sigmund (1919) The Uncanny.
Lacan, J. (2006). The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in the psychoanalytic experience. In B. Fink (Trans.), Écrits, The First Complete Edition in English (pp. 75–81). New York: Norton. (Original work published 1949)
Lacan, J. (2006). Agressiveness. In B. Fink (Trans.), Écrits, The First Complete Edition in English (pp. 85–123). New York: Norton. (Original work published 1966)
López, Lola (Barcelona 2010) The Mystery of the Speaking Body
Soler, Colette (2012[1984]) The Body in the Teaching of Jacques Lacan. JCFAR 2012.
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