The Algorithm of Transference: From Supposed Knowledge to the Object-Cause—Adriana Passini
This seminar will examine Lacan’s algorithm of transference and the transformation of the analytic relation it formalizes. Beginning with Freud’s account of transference and Lacan’s reading of Plato’s Symposium, it will consider how the supposition of knowledge establishes the transference. From this point of departure, the seminar will address the desire and the discourse of the analyst, and the place of object a, asking how the analytic process moves from the supposition of knowledge to the construction of object a as the cause of desire.
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Memoria dell’utopia: Gramsci e noi—Angelo Villa
This biography of the revolutionary thinker Antonio Gramsci encompasses his Sardinian childhood marked by poverty and illness; his years of study, intellectual production and political activism; and his last years of imprisonment under Fascism which failed to deflect his fundamental drive toward the future.
On Child Psychoanalysis Today—Angelo Villa
Child psychoanalysis, ever since Freud’s time, has been a testing ground for our field, serving to question the basic premises of psychoanalysis. While inextricable from intergenerational history, it is also firmly marked by contemporary issues and new forms of symbolization. This workshop will focus on the analyst’s obligation to respond inventively to new symptoms in children and remain open to the unexpected.