Babillard

Psychoanalysis as such, called pure psychoanalysis in Lacanian terms, is a radical experience conducted under transference, namely love of the knowledge (le savoir) produced by the unconscious as the foundation of a new ethic. Such an experience, necessarily unique and linked to what is considered to be a subjective history, is the effect of the constraint of the analyst's desire on the subjective demand. As such, the experience reaches an end, a logical limit overdetermined by its internal structure, an end that is not to be confused with its finality or avowed objective, with the end of the experience determined either by the analysand or the analyst for reasons external to the logic of the experience. The logic that drives such an experience to its internal limit, its analytic end, involves something else than effects of healing and is verifiable for the subject through supervision. The savoir produced by such an experience is nonetheless verifiable at the conclusion of the various processes called "of the pass" set in place by a School to produce and collect the savoir. This is what enables a subjective experience that is unique and thus incapable of repetition to, on a case by case basis through control by supervision and the pass, open onto a specific savoir applicable in the realm of the psyche and its effects within the body, or even within the organism, for situations in which the experience itself was absent. It is applied psychoanalysis, the foundation of the clinic referred to as "analytic psychotherapy", where the subject is not constrained to go through the experience as such, but where the subject is confronted with ethical exigencies supported by the savoir deriving from the experience.

The Gifric clinical seminar will support this clinical practice aimed at applying the savoir and ethic deriving from the analytic experience carried to its logical end, to the treatment of serious or mild mental disorders of a passing or intermittent nature as in most neuroses, or severe and persistent disorders as in the psychoses, and that require extensive examination and questioning of the unconscious positions in which the disorders become rooted. The seminars are seminars of psychoanalysis applied to mental disorders of a psychic origin whatever their severity and effects in the organism. The disorders demonstrate blockage of the psyche in its imaginary, behavioural, interpersonal and socio-cultural manifestations in relation to the subject's unconscious positions and deep-seated ethical choices.

The clinical seminars are designed for professionals and clinicians in the health system or in private practice who are confronted in their work with subjects suffering from mental disorders. It is important to maintain the distinction between mental disorders and mental illnesses. The latter, from the standpoint of neuroscience and biological psychiatry, or mainstream psychiatry for some, presuppose an organic affliction specifying particular deficiencies in terms of neurological manifestations or functioning of attention, intelligence, volition, affectivity or psychosocial behaviour. Invariably, the preferred clinical approaches in those perspectives essentially are focused both on the care aspect, being centered with the organic and not with treatment, thus favouring the symbolic given the real causes of the neurological afflictions are not known, and on the aspects of learning, relearning to compensate for the identified deficiencies and when indicated, re-education with a view to the social reintegration of the persons affected.

The psychoanalytical approach is based on a deeper symbolic causality involving the mind itself in its taking of ethical positions that mobilize the entire being as far as its neurophysiological rooting and genetic conditioning. This approach relies on speech, which substantiates the radical split between the mind, specific to humans and underlying the human's erotic, æsthetic and ethical positions, and the psyche, which we share with animals and which in its neurophysiological functioning supports the psychosocial and cultural manifestations of those subjective positions. This full speech in which the subject takes a position evokes in the analytical clinic the confrontation with death working in the eroticism and with the absence of any possible recourse to an Other, leaving the human subject in total solitude as to its ethical responsibilities. This double confrontation is where human uniqueness becomes specific, and is the source of what psychoanalysis identifies as mental disorders as opposed to what may be seen as mental illnesses in psychiatry held out to be biological and therefore medical. From Freud to the present, the analytic experience has uncovered a savoir about these disorders, their structures and the logic of their development and action on the individual organism, the psyche, the conscious and behaviour. The presentation of clinical cases, the work of the participants in clinical teams and the studies of clinical strategies ensuing from the clinician's position are the means that allow the clinical seminar to explore the field of the unconscious where the peculiar logic regulating the disorders in each specific case is operating. The work of the seminar will determine the clinician's position in regard to the client's demand, and his or her relation to what is serving as a pretext in that demand in order to gain access to the conscious in the transitional crisis, to tear the imaginary in the fantasy or to impose itself on the body or psyche through the symptom. Psychoanalysis as an applied clinic, not unlike psychoanalysis as an experience directed under transference, will progressively set itself up and reveal itself as an ethical practice relying on a savoir which develops once the unconscious has been set to work. Participating clinicians will be invited to present cases, which are to be instrumental in uncovering the functioning of the logic of the fantasy at the heart of the experience.