November 2016
Jeffrey Sacks: The Philosophical Anthropology of Paul Ricoeur Towards an Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Class 2)
This series of conversations will examine the core concepts of philosophical anthropology and explore their application towards an evolving contemporary psychoanalysis through clinical examples and selected readings of Paul Ricoeur. His interdisciplinary blending of literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis and the poetics of imagination offer enhanced opportunities of ethical gratitude, healing mutual recognition and liberation. First Conversation: From the semantics of desire, metaphor, and narrative to vulnerability as the new capability Second Conversation: From the interpersonal intersubjective linguistic field theory to…
Find out more »October 2016
“How To Live Together”: Acephalic Discontents IV
(session IV/ curated by WENDY’S SUBWAY/ texts: Roland Barthes, “How to Live Together”) Acephalic discontents is a series of text-based discussions on the question of community and group structure organized in collaboration with various writerly, artistic and intellectual groups. Sessions reflect on the possibilities and limits of alternative organization within the constraints of today’s capitalism while also functioning as nodes of intersection for various acephalic thinkers, groups and projects between New York City and Philadelphia. Each discussion session is relatively…
Find out more »Jeffrey Sacks: The Philosophical Anthropology of Paul Ricoeur Towards an Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Class 1)
This series of conversations will examine the core concepts of philosophical anthropology and explore their application towards an evolving contemporary psychoanalysis through clinical examples and selected readings of Paul Ricoeur. His interdisciplinary blending of literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis and the poetics of imagination offer enhanced opportunities of ethical gratitude, healing mutual recognition and liberation. First Conversation: From the semantics of desire, metaphor, and narrative to vulnerability as the new capability Second Conversation: From the interpersonal intersubjective linguistic field theory to…
Find out more »November 2015
NEAL GOLDBERG: What is Unsaid – Psychoanalysis and the Contemporary Theater
What can we learn from the relationship between speech and desire in the modern or contemporary theater? This is a question that analysts rarely ask, yet is of great importance to our work. For Lacan, the idea that psychoanalysis has something to learn from the theater – rather than the other way around – was, of course, critical to his view of speech and desire. Iconic characters like Hamlet or Antigone, in particular, were central to this effort, and contributed…
Find out more »March 2013
UnBadiou: A Seminar on Alain Badiou with Jamieson Webster and Evan Malater – Part II – Fidelity to the Event
"To be faithful to an event is to move within the situation that this event has supplemented, by thinking (although all thought is a practice, a putting to the test) the situation ‘according to’ the event. And this, of course – since the event was excluded by all the regular laws of the situation – compels the subject to invent a new way of being and acting in the situation.” Badiou, Ethics, p. 41 "Essentially, a truth is the material…
Find out more »UnBadiou: A Seminar on Alain Badiou with Jamieson Webster and Evan Malater – Part I – The Event and Unbehagen
"To be faithful to an event is to move within the situation that this event has supplemented, by thinking (although all thought is a practice, a putting to the test) the situation ‘according to’ the event. And this, of course – since the event was excluded by all the regular laws of the situation – compels the subject to invent a new way of being and acting in the situation.” Badiou, Ethics, p. 41 “Essentially, a truth is the material…
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