FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
The Capitalist’s Discourse
Alain Vanier
Saturday, April 22, 2023 • 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Time Zone: Eastern Time (US and Canada)
This presentation will be held in a hybrid format (in-person and via Zoom).
School of Visual Arts, 133 W. 21st Street, Room 402C, New York, NY
In 1972, three years after defining the forms of the social link through four discourses (those of the master, the hysteric, the university, and the analyst) Lacan, in Milan, proposes a fifth. Should we read the capitalist's discourse as a supplement to, or variant on, the previous four? In fact it raises new questions about the relation between politics and psychoanalysis, the place of psychoanalysts in public life, and possible clinical consequences.
Suggested readings: Freud: Civilization and its Discontents (1930). Lacan: Le Séminaire. Livre XVII. L’envers de la psychanalyse, 1969-70. [The Other Side of Psychoanalysis]; “Du discours psychanalytique” in Lacan in Italia 1953-1978 (Milan, La Salamandra, 1978).
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.
General fee: $40
For students with ID*: $10
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Continuing Education
Four (4) CE credits will be granted to Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Psychoanalysts, Licensed Psychologists, and Licensed Mental Health Counselors who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the presentation, and complete the evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form, a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements.
Course Fee with 4 CE Credits: $40
There is no fee for CE Credits for Members, AFs, and Yearly Participants of Après-Coup.
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Learning Objectives: After this presentation, participants will be able to:
Describe the relation between the unconscious and politics.
Identify the place of psychoanalysis in public life and its clinical consequences.
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