with Yves Vanderveken “After the dissolution of the Ecole freudienne by Jacques Lacan, the Ecole de la Cause freudienne took responsibility for the specifications that he established in his Founding Act (1964). When it began it did so under the motto of a “return to the clinic”. Recently with his involvement in the political field Jacques Alain Miller was able …
Structural Clinic of Psychosis – Clinical & Theoretical Seminar
with Yves Vanderveken SATURDAY 2nd DECEMBER 10am to 1pm “From the beginning of his teaching, Jacques Lacan searched for what could give a structural basis to the analytical clinic. In order to free it from the miasma of the imaginary or the ignorance in which it can move when it is based solely upon the phenomena or disparate feelings and …
“The Subject of Addiction” – Opening Event 2017/18
The Subject of Addiction Friday 15th September 2017 7pm – 9pm [tea/coffee from 6.30pm] To be human means there is addiction. As Lacan once said in a round table discussion on addiction: “in any case speech always addresses addicts”. In our ever increasingly uncertain world, people are scrambling for solutions, for guarantees that will allow them to deal with their …
Towards PIPOL 8: “Psychoanalysis ‘at work ‘ in Institutions?”
This event is in preparation for the upcoming 4th EuroFederation Congress, PIPOL 8 ” A Non-standard Clinical Practice“ “Psychoanalysis ‘at work ‘ in Institutions?” a conversation with Joanne Conway, Susan Mc Feely, Linda Clarke and Cecilia Saviotti about the possibilities and challenges of psychoanalysis within institutional settings, such as Addiction, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Homeless Services. We look forward to your participation …
“DOES ANALYSIS SOLVE PROBLEMS?”
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 …
“Surviving Anne. A Novel” – Book Launch
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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 5th Study-Day
Dublin, 11th March 2017 THE UNCONCIOUS. For And Against. with Lilia Mahjoub, President of the NLS Argument Psychoanalysis was born from allowing and encouraging people to speak freely, to ‘say everything and anything that comes to mind’. This brought to light, in language, the fundamental split of the human subject: a dimension beyond one’s rational control and one’s conscious …