الربيع ٢٠٢٥، القاهرةمقرر قصير

Paradoxes of the Heart: Tragedy Between Love & Desire

التسجيل مغلق

تفاصيل المقرر

الدورة: الربيع ٢٠٢٥، القاهرة
يبدأ: الخميس، ٢٣ يناير
المواعيد: الخميس، ١٨:٠٠–٢٠:٣٠
المدة: ٨ أسابيع
طريقة الحضور: حضوري
لغة التدريس: الإنجليزية

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ستُفتح علامة تبويب جديدة، وستجد النص التوجيهي جاهزًا للاستخدام.
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عن المقرر

Tragedy, as per Aristotle’s Poetics, is the name to which we give a structure that provides a representation of desire; its dialectics and its deadlocks, and that which produces an effect of catharsis in the audience. The link between tragedy and psychoanalysis can be traced to the very text forming Freud’s founding myth: Oedipus Rex, the exemplary text of Aristotle’s Poetics. Lacan, meanwhile, goes further in taking up Sophocles’ Antigone and Shakespeare’s Hamlet to show how tragedy represents par excellence desire as an ethical category and emerges “at the forefront of our experiences as [psychoanalysts].”

Love, on the other hand, runs counter to what Lacan formulated as the ethical act of desire, and appears as a schism in the daily life and work of the subject. Love is often disruptive, obsessive, narcissistic… Yet love, in its many manifestations as a paradigm of sublimation, plays a crucial role in the structure of tragedy, and may in certain conditions be elevated from the labyrinth of narcissism to the level of the sublime.

Through Lacan’s conceptualizations of love and desire, and their representations in tragedy, we aim to explore how love reaches its full potential in loss, catharsis, and the impossible. Weekly readings, film viewings, and group discussions will aim to situate psychoanalysis within the structure of tragedy, raising research questions on love and desire in the lives and creative practices of participants.

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مسار المقرر

يناير ٢٠٢٥

Objective: Explore the foundational concept of the unconscious as invented by Freud and re-articulated by Lacan, tracing its development and its implications through to contemporary practice and academia.
Objective: Explore Lacan's tripartite model of the Real, Symbolic, and Imaginary as fundamental registers of human experience.

فبراير ٢٠٢٥

Objective: Explore the structure of desire as the desire of the Other, as well as the difference between desire and jouissance.
Objective: Explore the intersection between psychoanalysis and tragedy, tracing how tragedy, as understood by Aristotle and elaborated on by Lacan, provides a structure for understanding the dynamics of desire.
Objective: Explore cultural, historical, and psychoanalytic conceptualisations of love as a complex interplay between the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real.
Objective: Investigate how love opposes desire and in the structure of tragedy may transcend its narcissitic dimension to reach the level of the sublime.

مارس ٢٠٢٥

Objective: Explore the psychoanalytic concept of the Act as distinct from the passage à l'acte and acting out, with a focus on how the Act in tragedy represents the risk of breaking all symbolic ties and losing love, revealing the ethical dimension of desire.
Objective: Explore the history and contemporary place of psychoanalysis in Egypt, tracing its introduction during the colonial period, its dialogue with Islamic thought, and its adaptation to local cultural and intellectual contexts.