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Spring 2016 / Fall 2016 Schedule
Transference, by Jacques Lacan, Book VIII Translated by Bruce Fink Spinoza’s Ethics Presented by Neven Knezevic Feb. 15th – Oct. 18 January 5 I. In the Beginning Was Love Facilitator: Hilda Fernandez January 19 II. Set and Characters Facilitator: Paul Kingsbury February 2 III. The Metaphor of Love: Phaedrus Facilitator: Pascal Christeller February 16 Introduction and Spinoza’s Doctrine of Substance, Overview of Ethics I Facilitator: Neven Knezevic IV. The Psychology of…
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Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups Fourteenth Annual Conference
In partnership with the Lacan Salon APW 2016 CALL FOR PAPERS: ON LOVE: Vancouver, BC, 30 July – 1 August 2016 Love calls everyone of us, either to celebrate its wonders or to lament its absence. To praise its beauty or to denounce its complex nature. In Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), Freud figures love (Eros) in its opposition to civilization. He states that community life relies on “a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to…
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Clinical Seminar II: “Approaching the Symbolic, Real and Imaginary in Clinical Practices”
To sustain a clinical practice, analysts and psychotherapists rely on a theoretical framework that defines their assumptions about human nature. Such theory informs the logic that guides their interventions and therefore impacts the results of such treatment. From a Lacanian perspective, human subjectivity is understood through three registers: the Symbolic, the Real and the Imaginary. Roughly speaking, within the Symbolic realm we locate language, culture, discourse and desire. The register of the Real brings about…
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Clinical Seminar I: “On the Therapeutic Act”
The practice of psychotherapy calls for a necessary and ongoing reflection on the means, aims and conduction of the therapeutic process. The manner in which therapists approach their act involves an ethical responsibility and depends on the theoretical assumptions they hold as valid, useful and truthful. This Seminar offers an introductory frame that addresses psychodynamic as well as ethical and practical issues in the conduction of a psychotherapeutic act. We will…
