On Working Psychoanalytically with Children — Angelo Villa (first meeting)
This seminar will focus on clinical work with children, returning to relevant psychoanalytic readings and discussing clinical material brought by participants. Open to participants who work with children.
Transference in Psychosis: An Art of Invention—Adriana Passini (first meeting)
Lacan’s position on transference in psychosis is complex and evolves significantly throughout his teaching. Unlike in neurosis, where transference is structured around the logic of the subject-supposed-to-know, in psychosis its status is more problematic due to the foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father. This seminar will explore how transference in psychosis can be approached not through interpretation in the traditional sense, but as an art of invention — a clinical orientation guided by the singular solutions each subject forges.
dates to be announced
On Repetition: Lacan’s Contribution to Logic — André Michels
There is repetition only through scansion by the unary trait, the basis of the constitutive differentiation of the subject. Returning to the logic of the signifier, we will address the structure of repetition and the emergence of the new — one of the major stakes for the future of psychoanalysis.
On Hate and Love — Paola Mieli
The process of identification brings to the fore an intrinsic vulnerability toward otherness, grounding the forms of hainamoration (love/hate) proper to the subject of language, and their subjective and collective manifestations — also typical of the political domain. Identification, narcissism, and the sexual non-relation will be addressed, exploring the vicissitudes of hate and love, and the path toward a relation to otherness that reckons with the real of difference, moving beyond the myth of the One toward a practice of the not-all.
The Logics of the Sexed Being — Gisèle Chaboudez
Since Freud, psychoanalysis has updated its thinking about sex. With Lacan, the pan-phallic logic of the Oedipal gave way to a female logic of the not-all, allowing women an “other jouissance.” The phallic function remains, but it’s no longer exclusive.
Après-Coup Presentations Event
This event will be free and open to the public.