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Foundations of Psychoanalysis

The Analyst’s Transference

Alain Vanier 

Friday, April 9, 2027 • 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM 

Nothing is more commonplace than transference in all its manifestations — love, hate and ignorance. And yet, for all its ubiquity, transference is the specific, fundamental tool of psychoanalysis. How can we situate and address it from the perspectives of both the analysand and the analyst?

Suggested readings: Lacan: Seminars VIII, Transference (1960-61); XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964); XV, The Analytic Act (1967-68); XXI, Les non-dupes errent (1973-74). Vanier, Alain: Lacan, trans. S. Fairfield, Other Press, 2000.

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

Fee: $40; 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 Cité. He is a founding member and ex-president of Espace Analytique and an Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association faculty member. Among his most recent books are Une introduction à la psychanalyse (Colin, 2018) and Epistémologie et méthodologie en psychanalyse et en psychiatrie (Érès, 2017) and, with Catherine Vanier, Maternités particulières (Érès, 2025). In English translation, the Other Press has published his monograph Lacan.