Christopher Meyer
Private Practice, Psychoanalyst, Faculty, and current President of the Board of Directors of LSP; founding member of the California Psychoanalytic Circle of the Freudian School of Québec.
Seminar
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Private
The Analyst’s Act and its Results
Faculty
About
This seminar elaborates the consequences and results of a change in discourse resulting in the possibility of an analytic experience as one in which space and time are given to speak about the ruptures the unconscious has made and continues to make in the lived experience of the speaking being. The seminar proposes that the Freudian rupture inaugurates a new social link, which Lacan will formally and logically define through his work on the “analytic discourse” in seminar XVII and following.
At the heart of this discourse, or in the position of the agent proper, is the position of the analyst and the analytic act itself as one that makes way for the subject of the unconscious as a barred subject. This seminar will work on the question of the “act” from the perspective of the psychoanalytic experience insofar as it concerns a desire and its cause, jouissance and its work and transformation, and the Thing at work in the life and being of the subject.
Readings
- Freud, S. Selections from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. J.Strachey.
- Lacan, J. (2006). “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud,” Écrits. (2006). Trans. Bruce Fink, New York: Norton.
- Lacan, J. Seminar XV, The Psychoanalytic Act, 1967-1968. Trans., C. Ghallager.
- Lacan, J. Selections from the Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Seminars XVII, XIX, XX, Encore, and Seminar XXI, Les Non-dupes Errent, 1973-1974. Trans. C. Ghallager
- Lacan, J. (1990). “Founding Act,” in Television, A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment. Trans. Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson. New York: Norton.
- Lacan, J. (1990). “Letter of Dissolution,” in Television, A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment. Trans. Denis Hollier, Rosalind Krauss, and Annette Michelson. New York: Norton.
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Questions: Christopher Meyer, PhD, (323) 930-9662, cmeyerwoeswar@gmail.com
Schedule
Every 4th Saturday of the month September, November, January, March, May, and June, 2026 through 2027, beginning September 26, 10:00 am-12 noon Pacific Standard Time. Online via Zoom.
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All 6 sessions
| # | Date | Time | Location |
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| 1 | – | Online | |
| 2 | – | Online | |
| 3 | – | Online | |
| 4 | – | Online | |
| 5 | – | Online | |
| 6 | – | Online |
Fee
$60.00 per session/$40.00 students, or LSP tuition.
| Audience | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| All | $360.00 | Included in tuition for tuition-paying members. |
| Student | $240.00 | Included in tuition for tuition-paying members. |
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