What is a Lacanian Psychoanalysis?

Willy Apollon, Ph.D
Danielle Bergeron, M.D.
Lucie Cantin, M.Ps.

An invitation by

The Boston Psychoanalytic Circle
of The Freudian School of Québec
in collaboration with Gifric
and
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Friday, December 7, 2007
7:00 pm to 9:30 pm

At a time when it is common to submit the psyche to therapy, as if the psyche were the brain, it is good to go back to what is at the heart of what Lacan brings to psychoanalysis. What is a psychoanalyst and what is the psychoanalytic act? The psychoanalyst, from all evidence, is not a therapist. From a Lacanian perspective, the (psycho)analyst is no more a brain specialist taht (s)he is a specialist of the psyche. It is for this reason that we say analyst and not psychoanalyst. The Lacanian analyst concerns himself first with what gets to the heart of the Freudian unconscious. The Real in what traumatizes the subject requires a symbolic space where speech opens the way to the transformation of this Real in the form of a desire. The act of an analyst consists in sustaining the subject's access to the unconscious desire. The speakers will approach these questions through the problematics of neurosis, psychosis, and perversion.

The speakers are teaching analysts at Gifric and its school, the Freudian School of Québec. Willy Apollon, Danielle Bergeron and Lucie Cantin are co-authors of Traiter la psychose (1990), published by Gifric (in French and translated in Spanish), and After Lacan: Clinical practice and the subject of the unconscious (2002), Suny Press.

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Gutman Conference Center, Gutman Library
6 Appian Way, Cambridge MA 02138
(wheelchair accessible)

Open to the Public, Free of Charge

For further information please contact either:

Laura Gurevich, Ph.D.: 857.998.0413
Meg Turner, Ph.D.: 617.868.3727