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 Dr Mari Ruti visiting

Dr Mari Ruti
Tuesday 24 July 2018 at 7 PM;
Parnell Community Centre                                                                                                                                                                     

This presentation outlines the ways in which Lacanian theorists—in this case Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, and Todd McGowan—conceptualize the event of love (one of Badiou’s four truth events) as an experience in which transcendence meets with utter subjective derailment. In other words, Lacanian theorists recognize the traumatizing aspects of love even as they acknowledge its inspiring dimensions. While they shun romance as a capitalist plot that inducts the subject into a cycle of greedy commodification that extends to the desired other, they valorize love as the kind of rupture in the ordinary flow of life that forces the subject to reconfigure its entire existence. The talk also interprets Lacan’s seminar on transference (Seminar VIII), particularly the role of the agálmata—the gleaming gems—that Alcibiades locates in Socrates in Plato’s Symposium.

Drawing on Lacan, Ruti argues that the fantasmatic nature of the agálmata does not preclude their “real” impact, that they are why Alcibiades’s desire for Socrates is nonnegotiable.

Mari Ruti is Distinguished Professor of Critical Theory and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Toronto, where she teaches contemporary theory, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and feminist and queer theory. She is the author of twelve books, most recently "Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life" (2018) and "Distillations: Theory, Ethics, Affect" (2018).

Fees: $20; Students: $10; NZA CLA Members Free

Zoom Available

Please register by paying by electronic banking at 12-3066-0204464-00 and email Dr Gustavo Restivo at gustavo.restivo@gmail.com
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  • What´s new
  • Upcoming Events
    • Dr Cindy Zeiher The Importance of Being Earnestly Stupid
    • CLA 2020 CONFERENCE: CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BURNING?
    • Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis: Reading Freud
  • Previous Events
    • Synthesis and Creativity: Donna Redmond on La Maison Verte
    • 2018 Dr Mari Ruti visiting
    • 2014 CLA Symposium (28 Feb-2 Mar) >
      • 2014 Dark Light Screening 23rd May
    • 2016 CLA Seminar - 19th August
    • 2016 CLA CONFERENCE 18/19 November
    • 2016 CLA Seminar - 16th September
    • 2018 CLA - NZ Forum - NZIPP Conference >
      • Dr Patricia Gherovici
      • Dr Dany Nobus
      • Dr Ciara Cremin
      • Dr Gustavo Restivo
      • Dr Mark Jackson
      • Dr Kaye Cederman
      • Jenny Woods
      • Dr Nicol Thomas
      • Dr Cindy Zeiher
      • Rosemary Overell
  • AUT CLA Clinical Placement
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  • NEWSLETTER