BOOK PRESENTATION  Lacan and the English Language Jean-Pierre Cléro  translated by Jacques Houis Agincourt Press,  The Sea Horse Imprint, 2020
A presentation with Jean-Pierre Cléro, Brigid Doherty, Daniel Heller-Roazen, Jacques Houis Saturday, June 5, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada)
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The first detailed account of the influence English-language philosophers, writers, mathematicians and psychoanalysts exercised upon Jacques Lacan’s clinical and theoretical elaboration. A revised and augmented edition of the original French essay.
Jean-Pierre Cléro is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of Rouen (France). His areas of research are mathematics (probability and game theory), English-language philosophy (the philosophy of passions in Hume, classical and modern utilitarianism), and medical ethics. In each of these areas, as well as in linguistics and the philosophy of language, he has published a number of important books and articles. Continue reading Lacan and the English Language with Jean-Pierre Cléro at Après-Coup

PRESENTATIONS BY APRÈS-COUP MEMBERS  On Censorship  Saturday, May 15, 2021 1030 AM – 1:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada) Note change of time to 10:30
Salvatore F. Guido    Why the Ethics of Psychoanalysis Is Not an Ethics of Censorship
Annie Muir   On the Prohibition to Think
Mark Stafford   Censorship & the Evanescence of the Subject
Scott Von   The Analytic Cure: From Imposed Speech to Inspired Writing

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SEMINAR: On Voluntary Servitude   Paola Mieli   With the participation of  Raffaella Colombo Saturday, May 8th, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
In times like these, as new forms of totalitarianism are taking over everywhere, it’s necessary to reflect on humans’ inherent propensity to take joy in their own servitude. Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s articulations of the subject of language and the social link, and that subject’s passion for ignorance, the seminar will explore the nature of the drive, masochism, and the ways the superego dictates the law one abides by. Psychoanalytic ethics can open a breach out of subjective servitude.
Suggested readings for May 8th: Xenophon, Hiero (c 430-354 BC);  Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563), The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude; S. Freud, Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego (1921); L. Strauss, On Tyranny, chapter IV (1948).Paola Mieli is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. She is the president of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York), a member of Le Cercle Freudien (Paris), of Espace Analytique (Paris), and of the section of Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry of the World Psychiatry Association (WPA). She is the author of numerous essays on psychoanalysis Continue reading On Voluntary Servitude Paola Mieli  With the participation of Raffaella Colombo online with Après-Coup

FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS:  What Is Speaking?  Alain Vanier  Friday, April 23, 2021 •  6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Saturday, April 24, 2021 •  1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada)
By introducing notions such as lalangue, “saying” (le dire), and “the said” (le dit), Lacan alters, without abandoning, the scope of the function of speech and spoken language as articulated by Freud, albeit in a paradoxical manner which we will explore. 
Suggested readings: Lacan: Seminars XIX, 1971-72, Ou pire; XX, 1972-73, Encore; “Le savoir du psychanalyste” (lectures, 1971-72, Hôpital Sainte- Continue reading FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS:  What Is Speaking?  Alain Vanier with Après-Coup