The Line, the Symbol and Lacan 26 June 2014

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Thursday 26th June 2014 (17:00-19:00)
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Centre for Critical Theory

visiting speaker series

Associate Professor Matthew Del Nevo - ‘The Line, the Symbol and Lacan’

Associate Professor Matthew Del Nevo, who is in the Department of Philosophy at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, will be giving a talk entitled ‘The Line, the Symbol and Lacan’.

The line is a metaphor from Plato’s Republic. The presentation will work through this metaphor and then relate the theory of the unconscious and a theory of the symbol to it (Cassirer, Elliot R. Wolfson), before then locating Lacan within this overall cultural sensibility. This seminar aims to shed a light on Lacan in which he is not usually (or ever) seen, but which Lacan himself would have been very well aware of.

All welcome!

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