In Spanish, the word duelo means mourning and grief, but also duel: a struggle for recognition. Indeed, the mourning process is both a challenge and an opportunity for subjects to recompose their symbolic universes, recovering the lack that can rekindle desire. Through various clinical examples, we will propose new tools for treating bereavement.

This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

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.

The behavior that people involved with autistic children often view as ‘weird’ is, in fact, these children's response to their world: their way of being. As such, it serves us, in the dynamics of the transference, to create a possible environment for them in which ‘weirdness’ can gradually be tried out as subjective style.

This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

In 1973 Lacan distinguished an inaccessible real of the unconscious and a real of number, two forms of real. What relates them? In the same year, he also posed a question regarding logical time: What, in a set of dimensions, “simultaneously produces surface and time"? We will address the limits to deciphering the signifiers in dreams and to censorship, and the limits number creates. The boundary between these two reals depends on the contingency of object a in the analytical cure and the end of analysis.

This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

This seminar continues to explore the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them. Particular attention is paid to the function of the One and Lacan’s logic of the pas-tout, the not-all, as well as to the function of the subject supposed to know in social bonding and in analysis.

“Father” is Lacan’s name for what connects the real, the symbolic, and the imaginary, which is to say, the structure that houses the subject. We will examine its operation in psychosis and neurosis.

Freud’s theory of the “slip” (Fehlleistung) is one of the original contributions of psychoanalysis. Yet as Freud was himself the first to indicate, it is also an elucidation of immemorial customs of attending to portentous events. Through a consideration of some premodern and modern interpretations of stumbling, this presentation will explore the ways in which the Freudian theory redefines the sense of apparent accidents.

Focusing on Lacan's early elaborations of the phantasm, the group will continue to read his Seminar VI, 1958-59, Desire and Its Interpretation, with special emphasis on lessons 20 through 26. Reading for the first meeting will be class 20 of the Seminar (May 13, 1959).

The section “Observation of Nature” in chapter 5 of Phenomenology of Spirit can be considered a fundamental point from which to understand Hegel's surrounding reflections on Self-Consciousness, Reason and Spirit. Following the constant movements of life and the dialectical relation between inorganic and organic in the natural world provides tools for grasping his ideas concerning Individuality, Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the crucial processes of Negation and Recognition.

What can explain the negationism of politicians and religious leaders during the recent pandemic? What is the relation between disbelief in one's own death and belief in various saviors? We will address these questions by examining Brazil under Jair Bolsonaro's Trump-inspired government.

What happens when an analyst places her- or himself in the treatment as an imaginary object rather than functioning as a semblance of object a? The analysis bogs down. Lacan illustrates the analyst's position with the episode in the Odyssey in which Odysseus eludes destruction by the sirens’ voices by lashing himself to the mast.

This clinical group will be oriented to the unique challenges and opportunities we encounter in hospitals, clinics, prisons, treatment programs, schools, and other institutions. We will explore the often surprising possibilities the analyst has to create and sustain space for the singular even in settings dominated by claims to the universal. Open to those currently working clinically in or with institutions.

The section “Observation of Nature” in chapter 5 of Phenomenology of Spirit can be considered a fundamental point from which to understand Hegel's surrounding reflections on Self-Consciousness, Reason and Spirit. Following the constant movements of life and the dialectical relation between inorganic and organic in the natural world provides tools for grasping his ideas concerning Individuality, Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the crucial processes of Negation and Recognition.

We will continue our reading of Freud’s clinical and historical cases, paying attention to the significant decisions made when Freud’s concepts were translated into English. We will also read Freud’s metapsychological papers and theoretical elaborations.

The doubts arising out of today's clinical work with children force us to thoroughly question our therapeutic practice. This reading group returns to the conceptual assumptions of psychoanalysis through a study of the canonical texts of child analysis, from Freud to Klein, from Winnicott to Lacan, and examples participants will provide from their own clinical experience with children (required).

A discussion with Lillian Ferrari, Anna Fishzon, Peter Gillespie, Paola Mieli, Olga Poznansky, Monroe Street Schostal, Mark Stafford, Angelo Villa

Through a rereading of the Oedipal configuration, we will reflect on the notion of normativity and its function in psychoanalysis. What are the theoretical consequences of Lacan's rereading of logic tradition? What are the clinical consequences of a novel reading of the notion of norm?