Focusing on Lacan's early elaborations of the phantasm, the group will continue to read his Seminar VI, 1958-59, Desire and Its Interpretation, with special emphasis on lessons 20 through 26. Reading for the first meeting will be class 20 of the Seminar (May 13, 1959).

We will continue our reading of Freud’s clinical and historical cases, paying attention to the significant decisions made when Freud’s concepts were translated into English. We will also read Freud’s metapsychological papers and theoretical elaborations.

The doubts arising out of today's clinical work with children force us to thoroughly question our therapeutic practice. This reading group returns to the conceptual assumptions of psychoanalysis through a study of the canonical texts of child analysis, from Freud to Klein, from Winnicott to Lacan, and examples participants will provide from their own clinical experience with children (required).