Bruce Fink 2025 GCAS Seminar in Paris
“The Lacanian Object Seminar”
You take this seminar online via Zoom or in person in central Paris at the GCAS Seminar Venue.
400€ until 15 February
500€ until 15 April
600€ after 15 April
Faculty: Prof Bruce Fink
General Schedule: May 13 (Tuesday evening dinner in Paris), Wednesday May 14 from 12pm-7pm and Thursday, May 15 from 12pm-7pm (with dancing after dinner)
The GCAS Seminar venue is very close to the Louvre museum in central Paris.
Is you sign up by 1 March, 2025 you’ll have access to all of Bruce Finks GCAS seminars.
Description: This course will present the origins and development of what Jacques Lacan considered to be his most important contribution to psychoanalysis: object a. From its inception in the 1930s in the “imaginary register,” as he calls it, we will trace its evolution through Seminar VIII, where it takes on the form of agalma—precious object Alcibiades sees in Socrates—and Seminar XVI, where it takes on the form of “surplus jouissance,” to his work in the 1970s where it becomes virtually equated with jouissance itself.
GCAS seminar space in central Paris.
Preparatory Reading
Selections from Lacan’s Family Complexes.
The following version is very literal, not easy to follow, but easy to find:
Better partial translations exist but are much harder to come by:
1938 “The Family Complexes,” translated by Carolyn Asp [J. Anderson?] in Critical Texts, 5, 3 (1988): 13-29. Also translated by Andrea Kahn in Semiotext 10, vol. 4, 1, 1981.
Chapter V, “Lacan’s Imaginary Register,” in Fink, Lacan on Love (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016)
Seminar VIII, Transference, Chapter X, “Agalma” (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2015)
Seminar XVI, From an Other to the other, Chapter I, “From Surplus Value to Surplus Jouissance,” Chapter VIII, “The One and little a,” and Chapter IX, “From Fibonacci to Pascal” (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2024)
Take the course online via the GCAS Zoom platform
