The New York Freud and Lacan Analytic Group
Culture and Psychoanalysis Seminar presents
‘OCCUPY WALL STREET’
January 25th – 8:30PM
Barnard Hall, Room 409B
3009 Broadway (117th Street)
Presentation by Ross Shields: It Is Right to Rebel Without a Cause (these grievances are not-all inclusive)
Discussion led by Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff and Robert Buck
Occupy Wall Street appears leaderless, without demands, and without a cause—it would seem to be lacking the very traits that used to identify social and political movements. The seminar will investigate the extent to which the coherence of « The 99% » depends on the incoherence—the lack—of the « one demand ». Have the politics of representation been replaced by a symptom of their failure: occupation? How might the movement itself occupy the position of the absent cause orienting politics towards the real?
Suggested Reading:
Chapters VII and VIII of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Sigmund Freud.
The Direction of the Treatment and Its Principles of Power. Ecrits, Jacques Lacan
The Sinthome, A Mixture of Symptom and Fantasy, Jacques-Alain Miller
Chapter 20 of The Seminar Of Jacques Lacan: Book XI.
