Workshops of the ACP 2009
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other colleagues from cartels, research seminars and study
groups of the Centre. They are open to members and
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“Anything but the symptom” - Jouissance and the Body
Inaugural workshop of the ACP and the Lacan Circle of Melbourne
Saturday, March 21, 2009.
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“Man has a body” writes Lacan in Seminar II
(72-73); and therein lies the difficulty. The drives’
enjoyment is located on, or in, the body. However, the sexed,
symbolic body of a subject who inhabits language depends on the
maintaining of a boundary between the signified body and the
living matter of the real. Symptoms knot this crucial relation
between symbolic, imaginary and real registers, between the
body and jouissance, and for this reason they are the focus of
psychoanalytic treatment-at least at the outset. Yet symptoms
are precisely what the psychiatric term
“disorder” masks and medical research erases with
the discovery of “organic” cause and
pharmacological treatment. As for the patient who does not want
to know anything about his or her jouissance, it is
“anything but the symptom... ”
Program: Peruse the program or download a printable version(PDF, 114Kb).
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009.
Location: Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville.
Cost:* Members of the ACP and LCM: $90, Students: $70, General admission: $100.
* Note, morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch are included in
the price of admission.
For general enquiries about the workshops contact:
Dr Esther Faye, tel 0408 733 738.
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