It is the possibility for
a subject to go towards unexplored dimensions of his or her life
and to speak without censoring anything, however unimportant or
indecent it may seem...
It
is the possibility of going beyond failures and
anguish, as well as beyond the effects that failures and anguish
may have on the body or on relationships with others…
It
is the possibility of leaving a way of life that
is harmful to oneself and others…
It
is the possibility of calming one’s anxieties,
and it starts from words that are spoken and heard…
It
is the possibility of treating symptoms and unexplainable
illnesses…
It
is the possibility of discovering what directs our
lives unbeknownst to us. Sometimes, after many attempts to improve
our lives, we find that not enough has changed and that the basic
problem remains, so we have a sense that the problem may indeed
reside within us…
Psychoanalysis
entails working in depth, starting from the unconscious: dreams,
symptoms, slips of the tongue, unintended actions like forgetting…
Psychoanalysis
is work that is long-term and requires returning to memories,
heard phrases, events that marked us, and to what it is from our
history that we may be repeating in ways that don’t benefit
us…
Psychoanalysis
is work guided by an analyst who has already been through analysis
and is able to recognize the indications of encounters with the
unconscious. The analyst, having done the work of his own analysis,
along with a rigorous process of formation, can support and guide
another in this traveling this road…
Psychoanalysis
is a project that requires a personal commitment and a financial
investment. The frequency of sessions, the cost, and the mode
of treatment are to be established with each individual…
Psychoanalysis
entails working on the impasses in one’s life, places where
the subject can mobilize creativity in the direction of profound
change…
GIFRIC
and it’s Canadian and American Circles offer, to any one
who asks, a meeting of welcome, introduction, and information,
where there is an opportunity to speak about what brings them
in, what they want to solve, and what they are looking for in
psychoanalysis, so that each person can decide whether to take
this step.
"Psychoanalysis poses a question to the subject
about his relationship to jouissance and death and does so through
his or her experiences of illness, sex, despair, total impasse,
paralyzing anxiety, and the feeling that the world is coming to
an end...Also, psychoanalysis entails the development of a unique
experience that resolves an individual's problems by calling upon
that individual as a subject without received norms and by mobilizing
all of his intimate resources, rather than by applying accumulated
knowledge to an individual as an object to be corrected or forced
to adapt to social changes."
