Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
Five Thursdays, April 8, 29, May 20, 27, June 3, 2010
7 – 8:30pm
CME Credits: 7.5
Fee: $185; Member Fee: $166.50

This seminar provides a demystifying overview of French Psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan's fundamental theoretical concepts; unpacking such notable dictums as “The Unconscious is Structured like a Language” and “The Unconscious is the Discourse of the Other.”  We will discover how Lacan set out to “Return to Freud” through his unique de-biologizing of Freudian theory within the language of structural anthropology, linguistics and Hegelian philosophy.  We will also look at Lacan’s use of topology and mathemes to express his ideas of the de-centered subject and its relation to (the cause of) desire.  This seminar’s goal is to make the profound if opaque, contentious, and sometimes willfully obscurant, insights of Jacques Lacan understandable.   Prior familiarity with Lacanian theory is not required.  Readings will include introductory texts as well as selected readings from Lacan’s Ecrits and Seminars. 

Ralph Beaumont, MD is a training and supervising analyst and faculty member of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute.

Matt Carges, LMFT is in private practice in Portland serving adults and youth as well as providing licensure supervision.  He is also the Director of Community Based Services for Kerr Youth & Family Services and is a member of OPC’s Continuing Education Committee.

 



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