Lacan Toronto

Dan Collins’s seminar this year, Lacan: The Middle Seminars, will continue a project to study Lacan’s Seminars 12, 13, 14, and 15. These seminars have received very little scholarly attention up to the present in French or English. Last year, we explored Seminars 12 and 13. This year, we’ll continue with Seminars 14 and 15, The Logic of Fantasy and The Psychoanalytic Act. The transitional period of the middle seminars falls between two major turning points in Lacan’s work, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, discussed in Seminar 11, and the discourse theory of Seminar 17. We’ll use these seminars to look both back and forward in Lacan’s career, and we’ll explore Lacan’s trajectory during this time.

All meetings (usually held at the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society, 2nd floor, 40 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario) are now being held online.

Reading Group Meetings – online
Alternate Sundays, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM Open to the Public
Lacan Toronto meets every two weeks on Sundays to do a sustained reading of Lacanian texts. This year we are reading Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-1960.  Our method is to read the text aloud, passage by passage, and pause for discussion. You will be sent an invitation – announcement a few days before each meeting.                                                                                                                                                   

These meetings begin September 10, 2023.  After each meeting, a record of the discussion at the meeting will be posted.

There is no registration requirement, nor charge for these meetings.

Teaching Sessions – online
After the Reading Group Meetings
1:30 to 3:00 PM
Open to the Public

There is no registration requirement, nor charge for these meetings.

Lacan Toronto Calendar 2023 – 2024

Dan Collins’s seminar this year, Lacan: The Middle Seminars, will continue a project to study Lacan’s Seminars 12, 13, 14, and 15. These seminars have received very little scholarly attention up to the present in French or English. Last year, we explored Seminars 12 and 13. This year, we’ll continue with Seminars 14 and 15, The Logic of Fantasy and The Psychoanalytic Act. The transitional period of the middle seminars falls between two major turning points in Lacan’s work, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, discussed in Seminar 11, and the discourse theory of Seminar 17. We’ll use these seminars to look both back and forward in Lacan’s career, and we’ll explore Lacan’s trajectory during this time.