It has been some time since I last posted something to this blog, but I guess you know how it is. Time --or rather, lack thereof-- has taken the upper hand recently.
I hope I will be able to post something soon, but in the meantime, this is just a short note about two lectures I will be giving in October and November, as part of Autumn 2012 Public Lectures Programme of CFAR.
I hope I will be able to post something soon, but in the meantime, this is just a short note about two lectures I will be giving in October and November, as part of Autumn 2012 Public Lectures Programme of CFAR.
On October 20 I will be speaking about the concept of the Oedipus Complex from its origin in Freud to its use in Lacan.
The Oedipus Complex is one of the most widely known and most wildly misunderstood psychoanalytical concepts. It denotes, ostensibly, "the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a child's desire to sexually possess his/her mother, and kill his/her father." (At least this is what Wikipedia says).
Things, really, are much more complicated and nuanced, as I will try to show with this introductory course lecture.
Oedipus Complex from Freud to Lacan
Saturday 20 October, 11:00-13:00
Room 414 Birkbeck College, Mallet Street, WC1
The title of the second lecture, scheduled for November 24, is "Time in Heidegger and Lacan".
Time is a very transparent, and in the same time (no pun intended) very elusive concept. We think of it as comprising, together with space, some kind of a "cosmic" background for anything that there is --the universe, nature, our lives, our personal history etc.
But as soon as we decide to examine it more closely, our understanding falls apart. What does it mean, when we observe that "there is time"? Is time a thing? Is it an entity? Is it just a dimension (e.g. of a so-called "space-time continuum")? What is space-time then?
And what is time for the human being? What is the connection between time and (our personal) history? Is human time just a question of memory? And what is time in psychoanalysis? What does Freud mean when he points out that the unconscious does not have time? What is Lacan's conception of time?
Time in Heidegger and Lacan
Saturday 24 November, 13:45-15:15
Room 414 Birkbeck College, Mallet Street, WC1
For more information about CFAR's Autumn 2012 Public Seminars programme click here.
The Oedipus Complex is one of the most widely known and most wildly misunderstood psychoanalytical concepts. It denotes, ostensibly, "the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrate upon a child's desire to sexually possess his/her mother, and kill his/her father." (At least this is what Wikipedia says).
Things, really, are much more complicated and nuanced, as I will try to show with this introductory course lecture.
Oedipus Complex from Freud to Lacan
Saturday 20 October, 11:00-13:00
Room 414 Birkbeck College, Mallet Street, WC1
The title of the second lecture, scheduled for November 24, is "Time in Heidegger and Lacan".
Time is a very transparent, and in the same time (no pun intended) very elusive concept. We think of it as comprising, together with space, some kind of a "cosmic" background for anything that there is --the universe, nature, our lives, our personal history etc.
But as soon as we decide to examine it more closely, our understanding falls apart. What does it mean, when we observe that "there is time"? Is time a thing? Is it an entity? Is it just a dimension (e.g. of a so-called "space-time continuum")? What is space-time then?
And what is time for the human being? What is the connection between time and (our personal) history? Is human time just a question of memory? And what is time in psychoanalysis? What does Freud mean when he points out that the unconscious does not have time? What is Lacan's conception of time?
Time in Heidegger and Lacan
Saturday 24 November, 13:45-15:15
Room 414 Birkbeck College, Mallet Street, WC1
For more information about CFAR's Autumn 2012 Public Seminars programme click here.
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