Foundations of Psychoanalysis

Louise Bourgeois, The Family, 2007

The Phantasm, between Desire and Jouissance — Alain Vanier  

Saturday, April 12, 2025
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (ET)

The phantasm responds to the question of the Other's desire, and thus the subject’s desire, by articulating subject and object, signifier and jouissance. It is a screen to the Real, and therefore crucially at stake at the end of the treatment, opening onto another mode of jouissance.

Suggested readings : Lacan: Seminars V, 1957-8, Formations of the Unconscious; VIII, 1960-1, Transference; X, 1962-3 Angst; XIV, 1966-7, The Logic of the Phantasm; “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire” (1960), Écrits.

Location: In-person in NYC and online via Zoom.

Fee: $40; for students with ID: $15. Registration details to follow. 

—

Alain Vanier is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, and an emeritus professor at the Université Paris VII Diderot. He is a vice-president of Espace Analytique and an Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association faculty member. In English translation, the Other Press has published his monograph Lacan.