Penumbr(a)cast - The Other Scene
The Act and the Pass, with Tracy McNulty
In this episode Tracy McNulty discusses the Lacanian conception of the act and the related operation of the pass that he introduced in his school of psychoanalysis in 1967 and that remains a crucial procedure at the end of an analysis and also in a school of analysis.
Find Tracy McNulty’s work here:
Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (Columbia University Press, 2014)
The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity(University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
“The Untreatable: The Freudian Act and Its Legacy” - Crisis Critique(2019)
Constructing the Drive (edited with differences) (2017)
References mentioned in this episode:
Seminar XV, The Psychoanalytic Act — Lacan
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Read Penumbr(a), a new journal of psychoanalysis and modernity: penumbrajournal.org/
In this episode Tracy McNulty discusses the Lacanian conception of the act and the related operation of the pass that he introduced in his school of psychoanalysis in 1967 and that remains a crucial procedure at the end of an analysis and also in a school of analysis.
Find Tracy McNulty’s work here:
Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life (Columbia University Press, 2014)
The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity(University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
“The Untreatable: The Freudian Act and Its Legacy” - Crisis Critique(2019)
Constructing the Drive (edited with differences) (2017)
References mentioned in this episode:
Seminar XV, The Psychoanalytic Act — Lacan
Follow the Center for Psychoanalysis and Culture on Facebook
Read Penumbr(a), a new journal of psychoanalysis and modernity: penumbrajournal.org/