Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Marionettes for Konig Hirsch, 1918

Through various clinical experiences – the psychotic mother and her baby, newborns in intensive care, autism, and others we will discuss – we've come to the hypothesis of an initial supposition of a subject, resting on a logic of the sign before or beyond the signifier, displacing the notion of an initial dyad. 

Suggested readings: Vanier, Alain: Lacan (2000, Other Press); “D’une dyade à plusieurs. Quelques remarques à propos d’un travail avec des mères psychotiques et leur nourrisson,” Psychologie clinique, n° 12, 2001/2, Paris, 2002. Vanier, Catherine: Premature Birth: The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst (2017, Karnac Press).

Location: In-person in NYC and online via Zoom. 

Fee: $50. For students with ID: $20. Registration details to follow.

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Alain Vanier is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, and an emeritus professor at the Université Paris VII Diderot. He is a vice-president of Espace Analytique and an Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association faculty member. In English translation, the Other Press has published his monograph Lacan. 

Catherine Vanier practices psychoanalysis in Paris. She is a member of Espace Analytique, heads L’École Expérimentale de Bonneuil-sur-Marne, and is a faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. Besides many books in French, she has published in English (as Catherine Mathelin) Lacanian Psychotherapy with Children: The Broken Piano, and (as Catherine Vanier) Premature Birth: The Baby, the Doctor and the Psychoanalyst (1917, Karnac Press). 

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