Dear Friends and Colleagues Announcement: Lutecium Seminar will take place January 30, 2014 6-8 p.m. at The Flood Building in down town San Francisco. We will be webexing and I will be filling everyone in on details as the date arrives. Our seminars are free to the public and anyone having an interest in a close reading of Lacan is welcome. From the transference Seminar VIII translated Patrick Valas. What it infers allows us to say that it is not perhaps simply a question of the good deed, even if it were raised to the Kantian power of the universal maxim. If we have to take seriously the Freudian denunciation of the fallacy of these so called moral satisfactions, in so far as an aggressivity is concealed within them which succeeds in stealing his jouissance from the person (4) who practices it, while at the same time making its ill effects reverberate endlessly on his social partners (what these long circumstantial conditionals indicate is exactly the equivalent of Civilization and its discontents in Freuds work), so that one ought to ask oneself how one can operate honestly with desire; namely how to preserve desire with this act in which it ordinarily collapses rather than realizing itself and which at best only presents to it (to desire) its exploit, its heroic gesture; how to preserve desire, preserve what one can call a simple or salubrious relationship of desire to this act. Jacques Lacan
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:05:32 +0000
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