Liste (en anglais) d'?v?nements ? l'occasion du 39i?me anniversaire de la mort de Lacan. Entre autres: sortie d'un livre bio sur lacan par Miller, une journ?e de lecture en septembre rue d'Ulm, et 2 journ?es d'?tude en octobre. === BdF www.deflorence.com === _____ LACAN CALENDAR BY JUDITH MILLER _____ LACAN CALENDAR BY JUDITH MILLER 10 AUGUST - JAM on France-Culture 25 AUGUST - Two books by Lacan are out in bookshops: Seminar XIX, ... ou pire and Je parle aux murs 5 SEPTEMBER - Vie de Lacan is out in bookshops ? Broadcast on France 3 of Rendez-vous chez Lacan 7 SEPTEMBER - Web launch of Lacan quotidien 9 SEPTEMBER - Non Stop reading of Lacan at the ?cole normale sup?rieure 8 & 9 OCTOBER ? The Lacan Study Days at the Palais des Congr?s 13 OCTOBER - Lacan au miroir des sorci?res is out in the bookshops 10 AUGUST JAM on France-Culture Jacques Lacan Special, from 7.30 to 8.30. Les Matins d??t? features an interview with Jacques-Alain Miller on his Vie de Lacan (?Life of Lacan?), out in bookshops on 5 September. - MQ Podcast: http://www.franceculture.com/emission-les-matins-d-ete.html 25 AUGUST ... ou pire and Je parle aux murs. Seminar XIX has a very unique title: (three dots) ou pire (?Or Worse?). At the same time, a small collection of three of his lectures, entitled Je parle aux murs (?I am Talking to a Brick Wall?) will come out. Did Lacan want to be, could he be, understood? The question merits being posed, and Lacan did everything for it to be posed. However, it merits a reply too: Yes! The proof is that he entrusted the editing of his Seminars to Jacques-Alain Miller, who on the one hand, devotes himself to open out the armature of his discourse, his very tight argumentation, and who on the other hand, luminously explains from which angle these original texts should be taken. See the write up for these two books (Le Seuil) at the end of this calendar. - JM 5 SEPTEMBER Vie de Lacan (?Life of Lacan?) ?Jacques-Alain, anything and everything has been said about the person of Lacan. You have not reacted for thirty years, why react now? ? Because, says the Ecclesiast, ?There is a time for everything. There is a time to stay silent and there is a time to speak out.? From my point of view, all the anecdotes about Lacan are true, even the ones that are false. That everybody speaks about him as he sees fit, is fine. The only difference is that now, instead of shutting up, I will speak as well. And this is only the beginning! I am starting a series!? Vie de Lacan is in the bookshops from 5 September, Navarin ?diteur, 24 pages, 5?. - JM 5 SEPTEMBER Rendez-vous chez Lacan (?Date with Lacan?) ?Date with Lacan? is the title of a film directed by G?rard Miller, which France 3 will broadcast on 5 September at 10pm. It makes you discover the everyday Lacan through accounts by his patients, his students, but also several of his nearest, those who have privately rubbed shoulders with him. Born in 1901 into a catholic family, the psychiatrist with an encyclopaedictraining, friend of Picasso, L?vi-Strauss and Sartre, was a psychoanalyst with genius, a peerless practitioner and theoretician; yes, he was ?excommunicated? as if he had been the devil, by the International Psychoanalytic Association, based in Chicago; he will found his own School in Paris; and decide to dissolve it before his death; for thirty years his teaching has spread (essaim?) all over the world; today, most psychoanalysts refer to him. G?rard Miller, still a schoolboy, met him for the first time in 1966. Forty-five years later hisfeeling has not changed: ?Lacan was an absolutely astonishing guy, and if I directed this movie it is because there is no reason not to make this known to the greatest number of people.? Lacan remains the most stimulating ofpersonalities, still today. The audience will verify this. - GM 7 SEPTEMBER The Lacan Daily, the Lacanian Press Agency, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of his death, launches a daily onlinebulletin for all those who wish to exchange ?Lacan News? after the summer: Media contributors, readers, listeners, TV audiences, from France and from abroad, The Lacan Daily will be circulated from 7 September until 17 October on the mailing lists of the World Association of Psychoanalysis, translated into 5 languages, going out to 10.000 people in fifteen countries: psychoanalysts, writers, artists, journalists, and personalities from politics and culture. - JM 9 SEPTEMBER Reading of Lacan at rue d?Ulm Catherine Cl?ment, for the thirtieth anniversary of his death, has organised an evening of non stop reading of extracts she has chosen from Lacan?s work, as she did for the death of Levi-Strauss. Personalities, in responding to her request, will succeed each other in reading these extracts at the ?cole normale sup?rieure. On the initiative of Althusser in the 1960s, this School once provided Lacan with a hall to give his seminar in. Admission is free. ? JM 8 & 9 OCTOBER Lacan Study Days at the Palais des Congr?s 8 & 9 October at the Palais des Congr?s, Porte Maillot in Paris, the ?cole de la Cause freudienne expects more than 2000 participants for its 41st Study Days, entitled Lacanian Praxis of Psychoanalysis. There will be 130 papers that will demonstrate, case by case, the efficacity of psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation. At a time when the demand for evaluation, for numbers and the ideal of normalisation is ever more pressing, psychoanalysis responds to the ?Discontents inCivilisation?. - JDM Registration: www.causefreudienne.org 13 OCTOBER Lacan au miroir des sorci?res (?Lacan in the Witches? Mirror?) This special edition of the journal La Cause freudienne, edited by Nathalie Georges-Lambrichs, presents multiple facets of the work and person of Lacan, with 50 contributions by psychoanalysts, his students, on very varied themes. It opens with an as yet unpublished lecture by Lacan. One will also find a little piece by Fran?ois Cheng on Lesourire de Lacan (Lacan?s Smile); Catherine Cl?ment, Lacan indien (Indian Lacan); Diego Masson with Judith Miller, Lacan, la musique (Lacan, the Music); Jean-Claude Milner, Lacan, le juif (Lacan, the Jew); Fran?ois Regnault, Lacan, le th??tre (Lacan, the Theatre); G?rard Wajcman; and at the end Vie de Lacan (Life of Lacan), by Jacques-Alain Miller. A preview issue will be distributed at the ECF Study Days - JM La Cause freudienne, n? 79, in bookshops 13 October, 20?. Diffusion Volumen. Lacan presented by Jacques-Alain Miller ... ou pire (?Or Worse) Fortuitous meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella. Impossible meeting of a whale and a polar bear. One, forged by Lautr?amont; the other, a punctuation by Freud. Both are memorable. Why? They certainly tickle something in us. Lacan said what it is. It is about a man and a woman. Between the two, neither agreement nor harmony, no agenda, nothing pre-established; everything is subject to chance, what in modal logic is called contingency. One does not get out of it. Why is it fatal, which is to say, necessary? We have to think of it as proceeding from an impossibility. Whence comes the theorem: ?There is no sexual relation?. This formula is famous today. In place of what makes a hole in the real is the plethora: images that lure and enchant, a discourse that prescribes what this relation should be. They areonly semblants, which psychoanalysis rendered into a patent artifice for all. In the 21st century, it?s acquired knowledge. Who still believes that marriage has a natural ground? Since it is a fact of culture, one engages in invention. One tinkers on all sides with different constructions. It will be better ? or worse. ?There is something of One? (Y a de l?Un). At the heart of this present Seminar, this aphorism, having gone unnoticed, completes the ?There is no? of the sexual relation, by saying what there is. Hear the One-all-alone. As alone in its jouissance (fundamentally auto-erotic), as in its signification (non-semantic). Here begins the last teaching of Lacan. Everything he has taught you is there, yet everything is new, renewed, its meaning upside down. Lacan taught about the primacy of the Other in the order of truth and of desire. Here, he teaches the primacy of the One in the dimension of the real. He opposes the Two of the sexual relation and of the signifying articulation. He opposes the big Other, pivot of the dialectic of the subject, he denies it existence and refers it to fiction. He devalues desire and promotes jouissance. He opposes Being, which is only semblant. Ontology, the theory ofBeing, is outclassed by henology, doctrine of the One. The symbolic order? It is nothing but the iteration of the One in the real. Whence comes the abandonment of the graphs and topological surfaces to the benefit of the knots, the rings of string, which are chained Ones. Remember: Seminar XVIII was sighing after a discourse that would not be of the semblant. So, with Seminar XIX we have the attempt at a discourse that takes its departure from the real. Radical thinking of the modern One-dividualism. Je parle aux murs (I am Talking to a Brick Wall) The wall is of St. Anne?s Chapel. Invited to give lectures there, Lacan at 70, re-encounters his youth as intern in psychiatry there. He has fun, improvises, lets himself go. He will speak of knowledge, he announces, and the intention is polemic: the best of his students, those who are captivated with the idea that analysis makes a void, raise the fag of non-knowledge, borrowed from George Bataille. Lacan says No, psychoanalysis proceeds from knowledge, a supposed knowledge, organised in a superior way, which is the unconscious. One has access to it by only two paths: first, the truth (the analysand consents to saying everything that comes into his head), then, jouissance (the analyst always interprets the analysand?s sayings in terms of libido). Two other paths bar access to it: ignorance (passionately devoting oneself to it is to always consolidate established knowledge) and power (passion for power, whence comes the misunderstanding of what only the bungled act reveals). The most precious thing psychoanalysis teaches us is impotence. A lesson of wisdom for an ?poque, our ?poque, which sees bureaucracy, in the arms of science, dreaming of changing in man the most profound he has got, whether it is by propaganda (anti-depression campaigns), direct brain manipulation (NeuroSpin), or by bio-technics. Translated by Natalie Wulfing