SPACE FORMATION OF THE ANALYST AND ITS SCHOOL Does Analysis Solve Problems? with Geert Hoornaert The question might seem strange, since an affirmative answer seems so obvious. But then again, why did Freud consider that in psychoanalysis healing comes in addition, as a sort of bonus, indicating by this that its essential operation is located elsewhere? And why would …
ICLO-NLS Clinical and Theoretical Seminar with Geert Hoornaert
The Problem With Solutions The paradigm ‘problem-solution’ dominates in contemporary ‘thought’, in civilization, in politics, and in almost every approach that has psychic suffering as its object. Every challenge that defies the human being, every question he is confronted with, whether individual, political, philosophical or ethical, is spontaneously turned into a ‘problem’ that calls for a ‘solution’, which is …
ICLO-NLS Clinical and Theoretical Seminar with Gustavo Dessal
THE SLIP OF SEX. SOME REMARKS ON THE SO-CALLED GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER “While gender studies strive to construct theories about identity (“Am I a woman captive in a man’s body?”,”Am I a man born in the wrong body?”), Lacan is going to sustain the impossibility for psychoanalysis to found a new ontology, because the jouissance of the body, in the …
ICLO-NLS Teaching Seminar
This series of four seminars will look at the development of Lacan’s ideas on language throughout the various phases of his work. Lacan changed his ideas on language on a number of occasions and we hope to demonstrate that these changes were not driven by ideas from the philosophy of language but by concerns around the pragmatic question of “what …
ICLO-NLS Open Seminar on Anxiety with Alan Rowan
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ICLO-NLS Inter-cartel Day
The Question of Cartels To be a member of a cartel is an individual and subjective experience, an encounter to which each brings speech and the body. The cartel is a space that allows the necessary time for each to elaborate their questions and understanding. By sharing the products of this experience we make the School, we bring it …
ICLO-NLS Open Day “How does one become an analyst?”
This is a free event open to all where the crucial issues of analytic training, university discourse, analytic discourse and the specificity of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its formation will be debated with colleagues from Ireland and guest speakers: Véronique Voruz, practising psychoanalyst in London, member of the London Society of NLS, the NLS and the WAP. She is a lecturer …
ICLO-NLS Reading Seminar
‘The Wolf-Man‘ – “From the History of an Infantile Neurosis” Facilitated by Rik Loose and Caroline Heanue 28th March – 7pm Dowload PDF HERE
ICLO-NLS Reading Seminar
“Returning to Freud (I)” Last Seminar of 2012/13 Inhibition, Symptom and Anxiety” Friday 19th April – 6.30pm with Claire Hawkes and Rik Loose Download PDF
ICLO-NLS Open Seminar
“Contemporary Art & Lacanian Psychoanalysis” Contributors Programme