{"id":1119,"date":"2021-06-09T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2021-06-30T21:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:38:29","slug":"1119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Lacanian Remains: Excavating Function and Field | Dr Derek Hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event date and location<\/span>: 27 May, 2021, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lacanian Remains: Excavating Function and Field | Dr Derek Hook | May 27 2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IhwhObSV_uA?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><em>An online seminar where Dr Derek Hook explores\u00a0Lacan&#8217;s essay &#8216;The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis\u2019. Chaired by Dr Calum Neill, Director of Lacan in Scotland, and followed by a discussion with the audience<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Video timestamps:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IhwhObSV_uA&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n<\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IhwhObSV_uA&amp;t=126s\">02:06<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8211; Intersubjectivity &amp; Lacking Subject<br \/>\n<\/span><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IhwhObSV_uA&amp;t=774s\">12:54<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8211; Logical Time <\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IhwhObSV_uA&amp;t=1407s\">23:27<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8211; Law is Language &amp; Unary Trace <\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IhwhObSV_uA&amp;t=2364s\">39:24<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8211; Zero Symbol &amp; Mark of Desire <\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IhwhObSV_uA&amp;t=3375s\">56:15<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8211; Discussion <\/span><br \/>\n<a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IhwhObSV_uA&amp;t=5637s\">1:33:57<\/a><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> &#8211; Closing remarks <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Description of the event:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> In 1953 Jacques Lacan buried a time capsule. Just months before the formal beginning of his annual seminar, on the eve of his trip to the Eternal City, where, on the 26th of September, he would deliver a broadside aimed at the prevailing orthodoxies within the international psychoanalytic community, Lacan completed the landmark The Function and Field of Language and Speech in Psychoanalysis. While several concepts from that paper have entered the lexicon of everyday Lacanian discourse \u2013 the notions of full and empty speech, the idea of the \u2018trans-individual\u2019 unconscious, etc. \u2014 there is much that remains recalcitrant and untimely, much, in short, that is in need of further excavation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Two features of this \u00e9crit are particularly worth noting as we delve into its more obscure regions. Firstly, the unusual conceptual pairings that Lacan uses to drive his theorization (not just Hegel with Freud, but Pascal as reader of Logical Time, Kierkegaard\u2019s repetition juxtaposed against Plato\u2019s eternal essences, etc.). Secondly, the degree to which this \u00e9crit enacts the anticipatory temporality it formulates: an impressive number of later Lacanian theorizations \u2013 the recourse to topology, the intersection of death-drive and desire \u2013 can be found, in germinal form, within its pages. The aim of Dr Derek Hook\u2019s excavations is to make a series of the more oblique or underdeveloped concepts with Function &amp; Field accessible to both theorists and clinicians. More simply put: he ask 10 questions so as to unlock a number of frequently under-exposed but nonetheless vital Lacanian concepts: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">1. In what ways does it benefit us to understand \u2013 with thanks to L\u00e9vi-Strauss \u2013 the unconscious as a stomach? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">2. What does Pascal have to tell us about the prisoner\u2019s dilemma? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">3. What is the \u2018zero-symbol\u2019 (Marcel\u2019s \u2018mana\u2019) and how does it inform Lacan\u2019s later theorizing? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">4. What do the \u201ckou mantics\u201d of China (Chinese characters) have to tell us about \u2018signifierness\u2019? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">5. Why is Law an integral and inbuilt aspect of the order of language? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">6. How does the topological figure of the torus enable Lacan to think the \u201cbefore\u201d of language and the relation between desire and death (drive)? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">7. Why, pace Goethe, is the Word always ontologically prior? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">8. Hegel\u2019s \u201cthe word is the murder of the thing\u201d + Freud\u2019s fort\/da = ? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">9. What are primary and secondary historization and how do they relate to full and empty speech? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">10. What is \u201cthe twofold moment of the symbolic\u201d and why is this essential to understanding psychoanalysis as a conjectural science? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><strong>Dr Derek Hook<\/strong> is a scholar and a practitioner of psychoanalysis who specialises in Lacanian psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory (the work of Frantz Fanon in particular), and the psychology of racism and critical social psychology. He is the co-editor of the Palgrave Lacan Series, the 3-volume series Reading Lacan\u2019s \u00c9crits (Routledge), and author of Six Moments in Lacan (2017), most recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Derek&#8217;s Youtube Channel can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCzdZyq2SC9BtMn3fLTknIMQ\/featured\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Derek&#8217;s upcoming publication &#8216;Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Lacan-Race-Identity-Psychoanalytic-Psychology\/dp\/0367345978\">https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Lacan-Race-Identity-Psychoanalytic-Psychology\/dp\/0367345978 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Lacan-and-Race-Racism-Identity-and-Psychoanalytic-Theory\/George-Hook\/p\/book\/9780367345976\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Lacan-and-Race-Racism-Identity-and-Psychoanalytic-Theory\/George-Hook\/p\/book\/9780367345976 <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lacan-Race-Identity-Psychoanalytic Psychology\/dp\/0367345978\/ref=nodl_\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lacan-Race-Identity-Psychoanalytic Psychology\/dp\/0367345978\/ref=nodl_<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date and location: 27 May, 2021, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings","category-video"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}