Seminars of the School
Foundations of Psychoanalysis_
Wednesdays 7.30pm – 9.00pm
Commencing Wednesday 1st March and running for 20 weeks, the Foundations of Psychoanalysis seminar returns in 2023 to provide participants with a rigorous working of the fundamental concepts underpinning Freudian and Lacanian theory and clinical practice. It forms an important component of the theoretical aspect of the training of analysts and the ongoing work of the analysts of the school.
The Seminar is also open to students, scholars and colleagues in related clinical fields, in recognition of the importance to psychoanalysis of its extension beyond the clinic.
Convenor: Harry Constantinou, Analyst Member
The Seminar of the School_
First Saturday of the Month
12.00pm to 1.30pm
The Seminar of the School is held monthly and open to members of The Freudian School of Melbourne. Those from outside the School wishing to participate in the theoretical interrogation of Lacanian psychoanalysis are welcome to enquire about the School's Foundations of Psychoanalysis Seminar.
Convenor: Harry Constantinou, Analyst Member
P: (+61) 0434 922 143 | ✉ Send email
Being on television: behind the screen
"I always speak the truth." Jacques Lacan. From Television. (His opening line just to start the debate).
In 1973 Jacques Lacan responded to an invitation to appear on French television, a broadcast of some ninety minutes aired over two successive Saturday evenings. He read, not lacking a degree of his usual stylish dramatisation, a prepared text in response to a series of questions. This writing has subsequently been published and constitutes an incredibly condensed, intriguing and demanding traversal of many of his key teachings up until that point of time: including the relationship of truth to speech, the unconscious and the structure of language, the body and the "soul", concepts of "therapeutics", transference, love and the sexual relation. This seminar will address the seven chapters of this text over six sessions, in a first circuit, and will encourage, indeed require that participants formulate and engage with their own pressing interrogation of the challenges and controversies that Lacan's psychoanalytic work continues to evoke. Questions and comments welcomed between sessions via email. Answers may be less accommodating!
Convenor: Dr. Rodney Kleiman, Analyst of the School and Co-director
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Jacques Lacan.
“Television. A Challenge to the Psychoanalytic Establishment.” Pages; 3-46.
Norton and Company. New York.London. 1990
YouTube videos available with English translation of the original broadcast.
Notably the published text is not an exact replica of what was aired so both are worth a “viewing”
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$300. Students $150. Other appropriate concessions available.
Zoom Invite sent before meeting to participants’ provided email.
Third Saturday of the month
Six Seminars March to August 2024
Commencing March 16 2024, meeting via Zoom
11.00am to 12.30 pm.
Psychoanalysis, Philosophy & Theology_
An appraisal of certain fundamental concepts in psychoanalysis and the way in which they are informed by and inform recurring questions in philosophy and theology across the realms of metaphysics, ontology, logic and ethics.
Convenor: David Pereira, Analyst of the School
Ph. (03) 9690 3515 | ✉ email enquiry
First Saturday of the month
10.30am - 12.00pm
My Barbaric Yawp
Third Tuesday of the month
7.00pm – 9.00pm, commencing March 19, 2024
“If we are sure that sexuality is present in action in the transference, it is in so far as at certain moments it is manifested in the open in the form of love..” Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis
This year the Seminar continues to be interested in the symbiosis between writing and love, and with how this symbiosis might impinge on the practice of psychoanalysis.
Writing is understood as any practice which takes signifying articulation towards its materialisation as the letter. Love, taken as sign, is not to be understood. Nevertheless, to quote the poet Barbara Guest, “dreams [are] set by typography.”
The Seminar is structured around presentations which draw on the material practice of artists, in any field, including that of the presenters themselves. Each one, caught up in their own peculiar way in this symbiosis between love and writing, brings this psychoanalytic seminar to life.
Convenor: Peter Gunn, Analyst Member of the School
Ph. (03) 9347 1707 | ✉ email enquiry
In Consideration of Anguish
Second Tuesday of every month
7.00 - 8.30pm commencing on February 13
The seminar will take place in Geelong
Could anxiety be the Toyota Camry of our days, as an interviewee on Radio National suggested—that is, the near-ubiquitous accompaniment of everyday life? Could anxiety even be an affect that guides us—or a signal, and if so, what does it alert us to?
This seminar commenced in 2021 and will continue to elaborate on and consider anxiety in another way than by regarding it as an illness or a disorder. Freud proposed it as a signal and in considering what it might alert us to, we will approach Jacques Lacan’s notion of a new kind of object, the object a. Located by Lacan between desire and jouissance, anxiety has a signal relation to both, thus including to the desire of the analyst operating in the transference. We will use the tenth seminar of Jacques Lacan, entitled Anguish, as a framework for our considerations, as well as other texts and matters raised in the clinic.
The seminar will take place in Geelong on the second Tuesday of every month, from 7.00-8.30pm, commencing on Tuesday February 13.
To attend the seminar or for further information, please contact one of the convenors.
Megan Williams, Analyst of the School
Ph. 0417728738 | ✉ email enquiry
Tine Nørregaard, Analyst Member of the School
Ph. 0419150658 | ✉ email enquiry
Reading Seminars
The Lacan Reading Seminar: Seminar VIII Transference
These Seminars involve a close reading of foundational texts of Freud and Lacan with discussion of related clinical and theoretical topics.
Convenor: Linda Clifton, Analyst of the School
Ph. (+61) 0421 979 496 | E. ✉ email enquiry
Last Saturday of the month
3.00pm – 5.00 pm