QUILTING POINTS:

For the last meeting of the term, we will be reading the second half of "The Paradox of Jouissance", Part Three of Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Chapters 16,17 & 18). We will meet in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English on Tuesday 12th of March at 5.15pm. John Mark Derbyshire (English) will introduce the text. Wine, as always, will be served. Orange juice on prior request. We are grateful to the Leeds Humanities Research Institute for funding.

In celebration of Valentine's Day, we will be reading the first half of "The Paradox of Jouissance", Part Three of The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Chapters 13,14 & 15). It seems like a good way not to give ground regarding our desire. Timothy Roby (English) will introduce the text. Wine, as always, will be served. Orange juice on prior request. We are grateful to the Leeds Humanities Research Institute for funding.

The first meeting of the Reading Group for 2013 will be on Thursday the 31st of January at 5.15pm in the School of English. We will look at Lacan's "The Tragic Dimension of Analytical Experience"     in Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis , ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Dennis Porter (Routledge), pp. 293-325. The text will be introduced by Linda Roland Danil (CIGS, Leeds). This group is generously funded by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute's Graduate Research Funding Programme.

The next Quilting Points Reading Group meeting will be on Thursday 11th of October in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English at 5.15pm. The text under discussion will be "Courtly Love as anamorphosis" from Lacan's Seminar 7: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis. It will be introduced by Arthur Rose.