Seminar on Lacanian Psychoanalysis : Freud, Heidegger, Lacan and Monotheistic Religions
Seminar of Tokyo Lacanian School
The third trimester of the year 2018-2019
Freud, Heidegger, Lacan and the Monotheistic Religions
We will resume the third trimester of our Seminar on Lacanian Psychoanalysis
on the 5th April. The subject will be : Freud, Heidegger, Lacan and Monotheistic
Religions.
It has been said that Freud, Heidegger and Lacan are all atheist criticising
enslaving effects of religions, but we know that Freud spent four years
just before his death to write "Moses and Monotheism", that Heidegger
talked about coming of the last God, and that Lacan compared psychoanalysts
to Catholic saints. We could say Judaism and monotheistic religions might
constitute the hidden center of their thinking.
It seems that both Jewish people and Heidegger have a great confidence
in their own language, that is, Hebrew and German respectively, in the
sense that they believe absolutely that God and Being (Seyn) speak to them in their own mother tongue : the confidence the Japanese
people can never have in the Japanese language. Then what would be the
possibly intrinsic relationship of Heidegger's thinking with his antisemitism
?
About the necessary relationship between Judaism and psychoanalysis Lacan
says the literal tradition of Tanakh and the hermeneutic tradition of Midrash
are constituting the condition of possibility of Freudian psychoanalysis.
What does he exactly mean by that remarks ?
We'd like to treat such questions in terms of the apophatic ontology constituting
the foundation of psychoanalysis and of a possibility of overcoming the
contemporary nihilism. We'd like also to develop some criticism against
Japanese Buddhism.
Time and place of the first session : Friday the 5th April 2019 starting
on 19:30 in the room 2C of the Bunkyo Kumin Center (BKC).
No charge and no application required.
Schedule :
I. 5 April (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On the apophatic ontology
and its topology as postulate for questioning about monotheistic religions
(I)
II. 12 April (19:30-21:00, the room 2B, BKC) : On the apophatic ontology
and its topology as postulate for questioning about monotheistic religions
(II)
III. 10 May (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On Freud's "The Man
Moses And The Monotheistic Religion" (I)
IV. 17 May (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On Freud's "The Man Moses
And The Monotheistic Religion" (II)
V. 24 May (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On Heidegger's Antisemitism
(I)
VI. 31 May (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On Heidegger's Antisemitism
(II)
VII. 7 June (19:30-21:00) : On Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianism
(I)
VIII. 14 June (19:30-21:00) : On Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianism
(II)
IX. 21 June (19:30-21:00): On Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianism
(III)
X. 28 June (19:30-21:00) : On Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianism
(IV)
Luke S. Ogasawara
e-mail : ogswrs@gmail.com
tel. 090-1650-2207