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Lacan with Plato on Love - Einzelansicht

Veranstaltungsart Seminar Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS 2 Semester SoSe 2020
Einrichtung Institut für Philosophie   Sprache englisch
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Belegungsfrist 20.04.2020 - 10.05.2020

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Seminar Mo 14:00 bis 16:00 wöchentlich 20.04.2020 bis 20.07.2020  1.09.2.16 Dr. Brenner  
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THE SEMINAR WILL BE HELD IN ENGLISH 

 

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) was a French intellectual who has been labeled as the most controversial psychoanalyst since Sigmund Freud. Calling for a “return to Freud” in mid 20th century Europe, Lacan had re-conceptualized psychoanalysis in ways that had deeply impacted a verity of intellectual fields up until this day. Lacan was also notable for his demanding dialogues with many of the “great philosophers.” In his seminar on Transference-love (1960-1961), Lacan started a dialogue with one philosopher in particular—Plato. Revisiting one of Plato’s most notable dialogues, the Symposium, Lacan went on to develop a unique critical interpretation of the conceptual and logical motivations at the origin of Plato’s philosophy of love. In our seminar we will read Plato’s Symposium alongside Lacan’s seminar on transference and love. We will try to learn something about love by integrating the way in which desire and love are redefined by Lacan in psychoanalysis with the help of Plato’s unique philosophical insights. We will be introduced to several Lacanian psychoanalytical notions such as: lack, the signification of love, the substitution of the lover and the beloved, and the fact that “love is giving what you do not have.” The seminar itself will take the form of a symposium in which a close reading of texts will be held together in class. We will read the texts slowly, trying to delve into selected paragraphs, deciphering Plato and Lacan’s unique style, and extracting very straightforward and non-metaphorical philosophical ideas about love and the psyche.

What does Plato’s Symposium teach us about love? What does Lacan’s reading of Plato’s Symposium teach us about love? How does Plato’s philosophy of love impact psychoanalysis? What can philosophers learn from psychoanalysis? These question will lead us in our reading of Lacan and Plato.

 

Literatur Badiou, Alain. In Praise of Love. London: Serpent’s Tail, 2012.
Freud, Sigmund. “Observations on Transference-Love”. The Standard Edition of the Complete
Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XII (1911-1913): The Case of Schreber, Papers on
Technique and Other Works, 1915.
Fink, Bruce. Lacan on love: An exploration of Lacans Seminar VIII, Transference. John Wiley &
Sons, 2017.
Lacan, J. Seminar VIII: Transference (1960-1961), Trans. Fink, B. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015.
Plato, The Symposium. Ed. M. C. Howatson, F. C. C. Sheffield. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008.

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Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2020 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024