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IGRS Psychoanalysis Network PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE ARTS SEMINARS The seminar will take place from 5.00 - 7.00 pm, at the IGRS, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1, in seminar room ST 275, on the second floor. Let us remind you where we are. In Seminar 17 of 1969, in which Lacan first describes the four discourses, he demonstrates that structures indeed do walk on the streets. We have taken the four discourses to found our discussions as they allow us to look at the relation between works of art and psychoanalysis, as other than a relation of psychoanalytic interpretation of works of art, in which the work, or artists, gives itself up - or is subjected to - to a masterly reading. Art practice is a means of producing a social bond, but this is far removed from a sociological or contextual view of how art practices are 'made social'. We have invited psychoanalyst and writer Vincent Dachy and artist John Timberlake to take up the discussion, under the title: Figured Landscapes: Positionality, Picturing, and the Social Bond. Vincent Dachy was born in Belgium and lives in London where he practices Lacanian psychoanalysis, writes and takes photographs (although he also takes photographs and writes when he travels out of London). He is the author of Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World (Les Figues Press, 2007), as well as of numerous articles on psychoanalytic theory. John Timberlake is an artist whose work focuses on the relation between different modes of picturing and viewing in relation to landscape. His exhibitions over the past few years have included Colony (2007) at the New Art Gallery Walsall, 'East International' (2004) at Norwich Gallery, and the touring show 'Another Country' (2002-2003). John Timberlake is currently undertaking an MPhil/PhD at Goldsmiths College, and is an alumnus of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. Enquiries: [log in to unmask]