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This event will be an attempt to unpack and unravel Lacan's essay Remarks on Daniel Lagache's Presentation: "Psychoanalysis and Personality structure" (1960).

In On Narcissism (1914), Freud introduced his 'second topology' of his exploration of the unconscious-conscious inner workings. Here we find the beginnings of the id, ego, superego structure elaborated in his later work The Ego and the Id (1923). In this earlier work, however, Freud uses the terms 'ideal ego' and 'ego-ideal' rather than superego in a rather vague (to some) manner. Lagache takes these two terms and constructs his understanding of the ego as a synthesis with the ideal ego (narcissistic-libido) and ego-ideal (object-libido). Lacan takes Lagache as a starting point and shows his own understanding of the ego as a construction of the symbolic-imaginary-real.

This event is the first movement of a trio of events centered around a Lacanian interpretation of works of literature. We will follow up with Austen's Emma and end with Blanchot's Thomas the Obscure.

Our online meeting will take place in Discord, so please make sure to join our Discord group beforehand. Here is the invitation to our group: https://discord.gg/DEcXZDgXZj There are two 'channels' in this group. We will meet in the "Lacan & Literature" meeting room towards the bottom. If you have any doubts or you are not familiar with this platform, please send me a message and I’ll help you.

"For these ideas are not the foundation of science, upon which everything rests: that foundation is observation alone." - Freud On Narcissism

"If I explained what I am trying to tell you in a clear and concise way that you could easily understand, then I will have failed in what I set out to do." - Lacan

(event pic: Margritte - Not To Be Reproduced; 1937, oil on canvas)

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