workshop

Logical Time of the Phantasm — Erik Porge

Saturday, February 22, 2025
10:00 AM – 12:30 PM; 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM (ET)

How does the incorporation of the signifiers determining the subject and their sedimentation as letters take place? The expression “eating the book” borrowed and promoted by Lacan offers one approach to this question. It is a topological operation of a metonymic cut that establishes a continuity between the exterior and interior of the body, which requires taking into account the object a and its drive function starting from the body’s orifices. Here object a must be viewed in its turbulent participation in the drive and desire, moving from those orifices around the hole of the real of the sexual and of death. It is a real that summons up a naming of cardinal numbers and the limits of counting.

Suggested readings : Lacan: “Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty” (1945), Écrits; Seminars XIX, 1971-2, … ou pire; 1966-7, XIV, The Logic of the Phantasm; VII, 1959-60, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis; XX, Encore , XXIII, 1975-6, The Sinthome ; “L’étourdit” (1972), Autres écrits . Porge, Erik: Se compter trois . Frege, G.: The Foundations of Arithmetic (1884). Bousseyroux, M., “Un silence pour appui,” essaim, no. 53.

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

Fee: $40; For students with ID: $20. Registration details to follow. 

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Erik Porge practices psychoanalysis in Paris and is a founding member of the association L'instance lacanienne and the editor-in-chief of the journal essaim. He is a faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. Among his many books are the recent Amour, désir, jouissance. Le moment de la sublimation (2020), L'incurable de la vérité. Un réel de la psychoanalyse (2022), and in English translation, Truth and Knowledge in the Clinic (2017).