Jean Cocteau, Oedipus, 1951

Foundations of Psychoanalysis

The Name-of-the-Father and the Cause of Desire — Paula Hochman

Saturday, January 25, 2025
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM (ET)

The Name-of-the-Father articulates the structure that gives rise to the subject, formed by the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary. According to Lacan, its function acquires respectability and authority by binding its name to a desire-causing object. We will examine the intrinsic relation between the law and desire.

Suggested readings: Lacan: “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” (1960), Écrits. Homer: The Odyssey, Canto VIII. Plato: Meno.

Location: Online via Zoom.

Fee: $40; for students with ID: $15.

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Paula Hochman practices psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires. She is a member of Topologie en Extensión and is the author of Psicoanálisis del narcisismo y el fantasma. Un método en el laberinto (Logos Kalós, Buenos Aires 2019) and El Coraje de leer y otros ensayos (TEE/L. Álvarez, 2022), which was first published in English translation, as The Courage to Read (TEE/ L. Álvarez, 2021), was later published in Italian, and will soon appear in Portuguese.