Programme

Field evening on ZOOM on 10.06.2022 at 20:00

Seminar VII The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

Of the desire of Antigone and the place of the analyst

"Hence these two sides. Extinction or moderation of desire by the action of beauty, on which certain thinkers insist, St. Thomas, whom I quoted to you last time. And on the other side, this disruption of any object, which Kant's analysis insists on in the Critique of the Power of Judgment."[1]

Antigone's desire is a desire for the erasure of desire. Or in other words, in the beauty of the ideal the movement of life suffocates. And the other side is the crime, destruction or replacement, disruption of the object. By opposing a moral reading of Sophocles' play, Lacan brings it to light in its disturbing implications.

Program:

Mit-teilungen aus dem Büro

Contributions by:

Markus Zöchmeister: Antigone's Separation

Christiane Lamb: Empty space

Martin Seibt: Contribution from the Cartel to Seminar VII

Gerhard Reichsthaler: Contribution from the Cartel to Seminar VII

Moderation: Sylvia Altenbacher

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[1] Jacques Lacan: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. The Seminar, Book VII. Turia+Kant, p. 300

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