QUILTING POINTS:

The last meeting of the Lacan Read(s) Across the Disciplines Reading Group will take place in the Alumni Room of the School of English at 5.15pm on Thursday, 2nd of May. Nicholas Ray (English) will be introducing the text, "On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis", Ecrits , trans. Bruce Fink, pp. 445-488. Wine and orange juice will be served, all are welcome. As this will be the last meeting of the year, we will also discuss what our theme will be for next year: bring ideas and suggestions! Lacan Read(s) Across the Disciplines has been generously funded by the LHRI's Graduate Research Group Scheme .

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.

The Second Research Seminar for Lacan Read(s) Across the Disciplines will be held in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English on Monday the 25th of February at 5.15pm. Our speaker will be Professor Lorenzo Chiesa (Kent) and the title of his paper will be: "Lacan on Religion and Love" Lorenzo Chiesa is Professor of Modern European Thought at the University of Kent. His books include Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan (MIT Press, 2007) and Der Möglichkeitspunkt der Freiheitsfunktion. Essays zu Politik, Ästhetik und Psychoanalyse (Merve Verlag Berlin 2013). He is currently completing a new monograph on Lacan entitled For Lacan: Science, Logic, Love (MIT Press, 2014). Lacan Read(s) Across the Disciplines is funded by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute .

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 final meeting of the Reading Group for 2012 was on Thursday the 6th of December at 5.10pm in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English. We looked at Lacan's " The Essence of Tragedy: A Commentary on Sophocles's Antigone "     in Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis , ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Dennis Porter (Routledge), pp. 243-90. Dr Elizabeth Pender (Classics) introduced the text. This group is generously funded by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute's Graduate Research Funding Programme

The next meeting of the Reading Group will be on Thursday the 22nd of November at 5.10pm in the Douglas Jefferson Room of the School of English. We will be looking at Lacan's " Desire and the Interpretation of Desire in Hamlet " as published in Yale French Studies No. 55/56 (1977). Ed Powell (English) will introduce the text. Some wine will be served This group is generously funded by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute's Graduate Research Funding Programme

The next meeting of the Lacan Read(s) Across the Disciplines Reading Group will be on Thursday the 1st of November at 5.10pm in the Alumnus Room of the School of English. We will be looking at Lacan's "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'" from Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English . Dr Stefan Skrimshire (Theology and Religious Studies) will introduce the text. Some wine will be served 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.