Angelo Villa

June 2027 (Saturday date to be announced) • 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

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.

Suggested readings: Freud: Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy (“Little Hans”) (1909). Lacan: Seminar IV, The Object Relation (1956-57). Leader, Darian: “Rereading Little Hans,” Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, July 2021.

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

Fee: $60; for students with ID: $30. Registration details to follow.

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Angelo Villa practices child psychoanalysis in Milan. He is a member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and Espace Analytique (Paris). Author of several books on psychoanalysis with children but also on topics ranging from pop music to the Koran, he has been translated into French, Spanish, and English (Karnac Press’s Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap), and he has himself translated Rosine and Robert Lefort’s La naissance de l’Autre into Italian.