Frank Stella, Firuzabad, 1970, synthetic polymer paint on canvas

In 1973 Lacan distinguished an inaccessible real of the unconscious and a real of number, two forms of real. What relates them? In the same year, he also posed a question regarding logical time: What, in a set of dimensions, “simultaneously produces surface and time"? We will address the limits to deciphering the signifiers in dreams and to censorship, and the limits number creates. The boundary between these two reals depends on the contingency of object a in the analytical cure and the end of analysis.

Suggested readings: Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), chapter 6, “The Dream-Work.” Lacan: Seminars XIX, 1971-72,“...ou pire” [“...Or Worse,”], June 1, 1972; XX, 1972-73, Encore, Jan. 16 and June 26, 1973; XXI, 1973-74, Les non-dupes errent, April 9, 1974; XXII, 1974-45, R.S.I., May 13, 1975. “Compter avec Lacan,” issue theme, essaim no. 49, automne 2022.

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).

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