Écrits — The Letter of Lacan

Reading schedule

Week 1, Sept 4 — The Return to Freud
“Overture to this Collection”
“The Freudian Thing”

Week 2, Sept 11 — The Early Lacan
“On my Antecedents”
“Beyond the Reality Principle”
“The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function”

 Week 3, Sept 18 — The Lacanian Imaginary
“Presentation on Psychical Causality”
“Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis”

Week 4, Sept 25 — The Theory of the Signifier I
“The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious”

Week 5, Oct 2 — The Theory of the Signifier II
“The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis”

Week 6, Oct 9 — On Structure
“Remarks on Daniel Lagache’s Presentation”

Week 7 Oct 23 — Psychosis and the Real
“Response to Jean Hyppolite’s Commentary on Freud’s ‘Verneinung’”
“On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis”

Week 8, Oct 30 — On Temporality
“Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty 

Week 9, Nov 6 — The Praxis of Analysis
“Presentation on the Transference”
“The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power”

Week 10, Nov 13 — Desire, Drive, and Jouissance
“The Signification of the Phallus”
“Guiding Remarks for a Convention on Feminine Sexuality”
“Position of the Unconscious”
“On Freud’s ‘Trieb’ and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire”

Week 11, Nov 20 — The Ethics of Analysis                                 
“Kant with Sade”

Week 12, Nov 27 — A Science of the Subject
“On the Subject Who Is Finally in Question”
“Science and Truth”                                       

Week 13, Dec 4 — The Graph of Desire
“The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire”