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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">SAM Seminar Series, 2014</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">When: Tuesday, 18 March, 5 to 6.30pm</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Where: Robert Webster Building, Room 327 Map: </span><a href="http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/sites/all/files/page_file_attachment/KensingtonCampus.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.facilities.unsw.edu.au/sites/all/files/page_file_attachment/KensingtonCampus.pdf</a> </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><b style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4">‘Mathematics in the Bedroom’, a Round Table with Sigi Jottkandt, Kate Montague, and Baylee Brits (UNSW)</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>In his Seminar XIV,
</span><i style="font-size:12pt">Logic of the Fantasy </i><span style="font-size:12pt">(1965-66), Lacan outlines the reasons why sex always fails to satisfy. It is not because we have erred in our choice of partner, but because the sexual act is the ghosting
repetition of a far earlier, originary choice: whether to be a Man or a Woman. An important teaching from his middle period, this seminar sees Lacan calling on an array of logical and mathematical concepts such as Aristotle’s square of opposition, formal and
symbolic logic, and the golden ratio to help him further elaborate the major concepts superintending his famous “return to Freud”: the One, the Other, the subject and the object
</span><i style="font-size:12pt">a</i><span style="font-size:12pt">. The seminar also continues his decades-long engagement with Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Wittgenstein and others, even as it provides a fascinating foreshadowing of Lacan’s later work
on sexuation and men and women’s disparate forms of enjoyment as these are developed more fully in his
</span><i style="font-size:12pt">Encore Seminar </i><span style="font-size:12pt">(1971-72).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>In this round table, we present work from our Lacan reading group
on Seminar XIV of the past 2 years. Through a discussion of Lacan’s use of Sophoclean tragedy, Bertrand Russell’s famous paradox and Aristotle’s square of opposition, we explore the determining role language plays in Lacan’s concept of sex as it is traced
through various numerical and topological structures. Lacan is often faulted by feminists for his emphasis on the phallus (a stance which is not helped by certain infamous statements concerning the non-existence of The Woman). But in this seminar we find Lacan
re-situating sexual enjoyment in its proper mathematical and logical dimension as the daily reminder of the fundamental enigma that lies at the heart of the universe of discourse.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Baylee Brits is completing her doctorate in the School of Arts and
Media at UNSW. She holds a Research MA from the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her work revolves around mathematics in 20th century prose literature. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Kate Montague is a doctoral candidate in the School of Arts and
Media at UNSW. Her research interests include the postwar American novel, tragedy, and psychoanalysis.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Sigi Jottkandt teaches in the English department at UNSW. She is
author of </span><i style="font-size:12pt">Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic
</i><span style="font-size:12pt">(2005), </span><i style="font-size:12pt">First Love: A Phenomenology of the One</i><span style="font-size:12pt"> (2010) and co-edits
</span><i style="font-size:12pt">S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique
</i><span style="font-size:12pt">(www.lineofbeauty.org).</span></p>
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