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Virginia Woolf. Photographer George Charles Beresford. Public Domain via Public Media Commons.
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Draft map of incident of Dyatlov pass. H 1) Russian hikers has tent near ca. 1000m mountain top at plateau. Suddenly they left tent in panic. They ran out from tent ca. 1500 m down to forest. 2) and make fire 4) from branches of spruce 3). Some went to ravine 5). Some tried to return to tent 6). 8) is Dyalov pass. Black crosses are groups of deaths. Image: Merikanto Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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Jews in Litzmannstadt Ghetto. The Jojne Pilcer Market at the intersection of Łagiewnicka and Berliński streets Image: Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
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The Logic of the Unconscious and the Drive: Remarks on the Foundation of Psychoanalysis with André Michels online with André Michels
Henri Matisse, Sorrow of the King, 1952
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS The Logic of the Unconscious and the Drive: Remarks on the Foundation of Psychoanalysis André Michels Saturday, February 6, 202110:00 AM – 12:30 PM (EST)
Lacan’s logical investigations of the unconscious is already at work in Freud’s elaboration of The Interpretation of Dreams. The radical newness of psychoanalysis is to situate the unconscious in relation to the drive, as its ethical kernel; yet the amazing proximity, if not identity, in psychoanalysis of logic, ethics, and aesthetics is one anticipated by Wittgenstein.
Suggested readings: Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Lacan: Seminar XIV, La logique du fantasme, 1966-67. Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922).
André Michels is a psychoanalyst practicing in Luxembourg and Paris, and a member of the Après-Coup faculty. He is the co-editor of the Jahrbuch für klinische Psychoanalyse, editor of Actualité de l’hystérie, and author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis.
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