When: Friday 9th july, 2pm – 6pm and Saturday 10th July, 10am – 5pm.
Where: We will inform you, Shlomo will held this seminar per zoom and we will meet in person in 2 or 3 places
Costs: 200€, 160€ for those having booked the study package; to pay on the account of the Lacanian Field Austria – Initiative Vienna
Working language: English
Registration and Information: and also, when you want to bring a case; Magda Sorger-Domenigg: magda.sorger@aon.at,
tel: 0043 650 4843509
Argument
… And so it happened that even this year, as in the years that have passed, we continue to dream ... tied by our mother's navel to language and, in the same tone of life and death, to the real of the drive…
How does the dream relate to the body? Does this question not resonate with another question, which already seems to be much more familiar: What is the relation between language and the body? Following Lacan's latest teaching, illuminated by J.-A Miller, we respond to this last question with the term: "The speaking body". But is it not that we dream because we speak? Why not say, then – at least analogously – "the dreaming body"?
Along with the speaking body we also talk about a “body event” to re-mark by it the symptom (as sinthome), according to Lacan’s last teaching. According to Miller, this event always regards discourse events that left traces on the body, "and this happens because the signifier does not only have signifying effects, but it also has effects of affect in a body." These effects-affects belong to the register of the real and constitute jouissance. So, can we – and if so, in what ways and under which circumstances – speak of the dream as a body event?
It seems to me that these are just some of the fundamental issues that arise from the question of the dream and the body, and only some of the ways to approach them. We shall deal with these in detail in the present seminar.
Also, three short cases will be presented at the seminar, each with one or more dreams at its center.
Recommended reading material
1. Freud, S., The Interpretation of Dreams, chapter 5, sub-chapter 3: "The Somatic Sources of Dreams", S.E., V.
2. Freud, S., The Interpretation of Dreams, chapter 6, sub-chapter 8: "Affects in Dreams", S.E., V.
3. The navel of the dream is a hole – "Jacques Lacan's answer to Marcel Ritter", published in the Letters of the Freudian School. April 1976, No. 18, pp. 7–12. Re-published in La Cause du Desire, No 102, June 2019, pp. 35–43.
4. Miller, J.-A., "The Unconscious and the Speaking Body", in Hurly-Burly, Issue No. 12, January 2015, especially pp. 123–127 (The Jouissance of the Body of the Parlêtre).