International Lacan Seminar - Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis

australian
centre for
psychoanalysis
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in association with
The Melbourne Forum of the International of the Forums of the Lacanian Field,
present the:
International Lacan Seminar
March 20th – 22nd 2015
Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville.
conducted by
Dr José Monseny
The Unconscious: language and Eros, formal prerequisites of the
psychoanalytic experience
Dr José Monseny is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in Barcelona and a founding member
and Analyst Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field. He
teaches at the Clinical College of Barcelona (ACCEP) and as a guest lecturer at Bordeaux,
Milan, Venice, Naples, Madrid, Sevilla, San Sebastián and other cities. Between 1980 and
1986 he was a physician with the General Pediatric Hospital San Juan de Dios, Barcelona,
and from 2003 until 2013 he was the Director of the Institute for the Psychosocial Clinic of
Barcelona. He is a supervisor at the Centre for Early Infancy (CDIAP), Blanes, and directs
the study and research group, Clinic and Education. Dr Monseny is the author of numerous
articles and book chapters on psychoanalysis, and the editor of two books to which he has
also contributed as author: Educar aún… [Still educating…] and El autism, un reto para la
colaboración entre clínicos y pedagogos [Autism, a challenge to the collaboration between
clinicians and educators].
and
Ana Martínez Westerhausen
Childhood neurosis: a necessary neurosis
Ana Martínez Westerhausen is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist in Barcelona, a
founding member and Analyst Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of
the Lacanian Field. She teaches at the Clinical College of Barcelona (ACCEP) and as a guest
lecturer in France (Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse and other cities), Italy (Milan, Venice and Naples)
and Spain (Madrid, Valencia, San Sebastián and other cities). From 1972 to 1992 she was
a psychologist with the General Pediatric Hospital San Juan de Dios, Barcelona, and is a
supervisor with the CDIAP-Mollet for early infancy. She is the author of numerous articles and
book chapters on psychoanalysis.
LACAN SEMINAR PROGRAM
On the basis of his discovery of psychoanalysis while listening to the symptoms of his
hysterical patients, a hypothesis imposed itself to Freud. Freud recognised that the
symptoms that produced malaise also express a causality. This led him to a structural
conception of the psychical apparatus which includes the dimension of the unconscious.
This dimension has a paradoxical status: insofar as it is unconscious it should be unknown,
alien and unattainable for us - and in fact this is so in a unequivocal manner - yet it can be
‘reconstructed’ and formalised on the basis of the formations that it produces in human
beings.
The first indications of the nature of the unconscious that Freud was able to grasp
concerned a dimension of language and a dimension of Eros. As early as his first
theoretical conclusions (Letter 52 to Fliess) Freud underlines what is fundamental:
Thus what is essentially new about my theory is the thesis that memory is present not once but
several times over, that it is laid down in various species of indications. […] I cannot say how many
of these registrations there are: at least three, probably more. (SE 1:233-4)
Thus, the foundation of the unconscious as a language is established - implied in the
notions of registration, memory and the different laws of composition. In the same text
Freud points out that the retranscription of those registrations determines the destiny
of excitations, and the effects of pleasure and unpleasure. These two faces of the
unconscious - language and Eros - traverse the entire history of psychoanalysis and the
succession of different conceptions of the structure of the psychical apparatus.
Our reflections will move around certain turning points in the conception of the psychical
structure, as they concern developments in the way we think of the clinic and the direction
of the treatment. These turning points prompt us to formalise the experience that enables
us to progress from the Freudian topographical theories to the matheme, the graph, the
topology of surfaces and finally the knots.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Freud, S. (1913) Totem and Taboo. SE XIII
Freud, S. (1919e) ‘A Child is being Beaten’. SE XVII
Freud, S. (1921c) Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. SE XVIII
Freud, S. (1930a) Civilization and its Discontents. SE XXI
Lacan, J. (1995) Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School.
Analysis 6.
Lacan, J. (2007) The Seminar, Book XVII, The other side of psychoanalysis. New York
and London, Norton.
Lacan, J. (2006) Situation of Psychoanalysis in 1956. In Écrits.
Lacan, J. (2006) Guiding Remarks for a Congress on Feminine Sexuality. In Écrits.
LACAN SEMINAR PROGRAM
Friday March 20
7.30pm-8.00pm
Registration
8.00-9.30
Public Lecture
Some psychoanalytic contributions to the
understanding of social bonds.
Saturday March 21
8.30am-9.00am
Registration
9.00-10.30
Session 1
10.30-10.50
Morning Tea
The unconscious structured like a language; the signifier
kills the thing (the graph of desire as a prerequisite);
the phallus as a clutch of language and Eros. Lacan’s
Seminars I to VIII.
The unconscious and the status of the object as
lack of object (the topology of surfaces as a prerequisite). Beyond imaginarised thinking. Lacan’s Seminars IX
to XVIII.
10.50-12.15
Session 2
12.15-1.00
Lunch
1.00-2.30
Session 3
Case presentation and discussion by Dr Monseny.
Session 4
From the Freudian unconscious to the parlêtre.
The real, the enjoying substance and “the unconscious is
of Lacan” (the Borromean knot as a prerequisite). Lacan’s
Seminars XIX, …or worse; XX, Encore, XXII, RSI and
XXIII, Le Sinthome.
Seduction, invocation, obeisance, calling, vocation,
destiny.
2.30-4.00
Sunday March 22
8.30am-9.00am
Registration
9.00-10.30
Session 5
10.30-11.00
Morning Tea
Ana Martínez Westerhausen - Childhood
neurosis: a necessary neurosis.
Seminar of the School
11.00-12.30
Ana Martínez Westerhausen: The School of Lacan: an
interpretation of the analyst’s desire.
Dr José Monseny: How do we eliminate the effects of
pseudo-school?
SEMINAR REGISTRATION INFORMATION
ACP LACAN SEMINAR with Dr José Monseny and Ana Martínez Westerhausen
March 20 - 22, 2015
Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue Parkville, Victoria.
Please pre-pay by electronic bank transfer if possible.
The discounted rates will apply to payments received by close of business on FRIDAY 6 MARCH 2015
PRICES IN AUD
WHOLE SEMINAR
FRIDAY
(PUBLIC LECTURE)
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
GENERAL
ADMISSION
$380/350
$20
$310/285
$150/135
ACP
MEMBER
$330/300
$20
$260/235
$100/85
ACP
STUDENT
$100
$20
$50
$30
OTHER STUDENT /
CONCESSION
$280/250
$20
$230/205
$100/85
GST=ZERO
Please note that the Public Lecture is included in the registration fee for either Saturday or
Sunday and for the whole Seminar, except for ACP Students whose fees are exactly as above.
The fee includes light refreshments and a glass of wine after the Public Lecture, morning tea and
lunch on Saturday, and morning tea on Sunday.
Please indicate via email if you have any dietary requirements.
Payments can be made by:
1. Electronic Transfer:
Transfer the payment amount to the ACP, Bank:
Commonwealth, BSB: 063172, Account Number: 1015 3043.
If paying via electronic funds transfer, please include your name as a message or advise the
Treasurer of payment by email.
2. Cheque:
Payable to the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis.
Post payment to:
The Treasurer, Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis, PO Box 509, Carlton South VIC 3053.
3. Credit card:
Please send card details (name, number, expiry date and whether Visa or Mastercard) as well as amount to be deducted to the following email: barbara.hubl@psychoanalysis.org.au