Seminar on Lacanian Psychoanalysis : Freud, Heidegger, Lacan and Monotheistic Religions

Seminar of Tokyo Lacanian School
The third trimester of the year 2018-2019
Freud, Heidegger, Lacan and the Monotheistic Religions


We will resume the third trimester of our Seminar on Lacanian Psychoanalysis on the 5th April. The subject will be : Freud, Heidegger, Lacan and Monotheistic Religions.

It has been said that Freud, Heidegger and Lacan are all atheist criticising enslaving effects of religions, but we know that Freud spent four years just before his death to write "Moses and Monotheism", that Heidegger talked about coming of the last God, and that Lacan compared psychoanalysts to Catholic saints. We could say Judaism and monotheistic religions might constitute the hidden center of their thinking.

It seems that both Jewish people and Heidegger have a great confidence in their own language, that is, Hebrew and German respectively, in the sense that they believe absolutely that God and Being (Seyn) speak to them in their own mother tongue : the confidence the Japanese people can never have in the Japanese language. Then what would be the possibly intrinsic relationship of Heidegger's thinking with his antisemitism ?

About the necessary relationship between Judaism and psychoanalysis Lacan says the literal tradition of Tanakh and the hermeneutic tradition of Midrash are constituting the condition of possibility of Freudian psychoanalysis. What does he exactly mean by that remarks ?

We'd like to treat such questions in terms of the apophatic ontology constituting the foundation of psychoanalysis and of a possibility of overcoming the contemporary nihilism. We'd like also to develop some criticism against Japanese Buddhism.

Time and place of the first session : Friday the 5th April 2019 starting on 19:30 in the room 2C of the Bunkyo Kumin Center (BKC).

No charge and no application required.

Schedule :

I. 5 April (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On the apophatic ontology and its topology as postulate for questioning about monotheistic religions (I)

II. 12 April (19:30-21:00, the room 2B, BKC) : On the apophatic ontology and its topology as postulate for questioning about monotheistic religions (II)

III. 10 May (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On Freud's "The Man Moses And The Monotheistic Religion" (I)

IV. 17 May (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On Freud's "The Man Moses And The Monotheistic Religion" (II)

V. 24 May (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On Heidegger's Antisemitism (I)

VI. 31 May (19:30-21:00, the room 2C, BKC) : On Heidegger's Antisemitism (II)

VII. 7 June (19:30-21:00) : On Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianism (I)

VIII. 14 June (19:30-21:00) : On Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianism (II)

IX. 21 June (19:30-21:00): On Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianism (III)

X. 28 June (19:30-21:00) : On Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Christianism (IV)


Luke S. Ogasawara
e-mail : ogswrs@gmail.com
tel. 090-1650-2207

2019年03月20日