InterCcECT

InterCcECT reminds you to attend our upcoming sessions on Lukacs and Lacan:

Monday 13 August, refine your sense of realism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries by discussing “Realism in the Balance” and “Reportage or Portrayal” with special guest Annie McClanahan of UW Milwaukee’s Center for 21st Century Studies. 4pm, InterCcECT Salon in Bucktown; email us for PDFs and details.

Thursday 16 August, refine your sense of reality by discussing Seminar 3: The Psychoses, chapters 9 &10, 5pm at the Salon.

Close thy summer, open thy Kant: Critique of Pure Reason reading group begins Wednesday 29 August, 6pm, Bourgeois Pig cafe.

Also note: David Graeber’s Debt reading group, Wednesday 5 September, 1:30pm, UIC University Hall 1050.

Got good reads on your summer bucket list? We always welcome event proposals.

What are the formal constructions of realism in art and literature? What, if anything, distinguishes the realism of nineteenth-century capitalism from the realism of twenty-first-century capitalism? What binds Breaking Bad to Balzac? InterCcECT, with special guest Annie McClanahan, turns to Georg Lukacs for renewed debate on realism in these times. Read “Realism in the Balance” and “Reportage or Portrayal” and join us Monday 13 August, 4pm, at the InterCcECT salon in Bucktown; contact us for details and PDFs.

Our continuing conversation on the realism-complex of psychosis convenes Thursday 2 August, 3pm for Lacan’s Seminar 3, Chapters 7-8.

We highly recommend the History of Capitalism Reading Group’s next session, Wednesday 1 August, 1pm, on Arrighi’s The Long Twentieth Century. Check our calendar for details on these and other events.

Have a summer reading bucket list? A fall mini-seminar wish list? InterCcECT welcomes your announcements and initiatives.

In studying the structure of psychosis, Lacan also refines the psychoanalytic account of neurosis, elaborating two different disturbances in the subject’s relation to reality (which imply in turn different registers of reality). Make your own study of these dynamics by participating in our ongoing close-reading group on Seminar 3: The Psychoses. The next session considers chapter 4, is scheduled for 28 June at 5pm, and will take place at an InterCcECTual home in Logan Square. Contact us for PDF and address; make your summer reading list a new reality by proposing an InterCcECT group.

InterCcECT invites you to the second session of our new regular reading group on Lacan’s Seminars, Thursday 31 May. We’ll be continuing with Seminar 3: The Psychoses, focusing on Chapter 2, with the additional text of Freud’s commentary on Daniel Paul Schreber, “Psychoanalytic Notes Upon an Autobiographical Account of Paranoia,” and with the recommendation to add Schreber’s “Memoirs of My Nervous Illness” to taste.

For a different negation of the social order than that represented by the psychotic, we’ll soon be reading Adam Kotsko’s Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late-Capitalist Television and holding a book discussion with the author at 57th Street Books. Slavoj Zizek recently praised Kotsko’s argument in this lecture.

Join us for Lacan, Freud, and Schreber at 5pm at our salon in Bucktown. Write us for more details, or to propose other summer fun. InterCcECT takes its shape from you!

The study of psychotics led Jacques Lacan to engage with Freud; the psychotic’s distinctive relation to the symbolic order was a crucial element of Lacan’s elaboration of the psychoanalytic approach to the unconscious and to clincial structures. InterCcECT invites you to a newly convened regular Lacan reading group, commencing with Seminar III: The Psychoses. The first session will entail a close, text-based exploration of a short selection, Chapters 1 and 2, along with planning for future readings and session logistics.

Thursday 17 May at 6pm at the InterCcECT Salon in Bucktown. Write us for details and a PDF (specify English or French or both).