This question has always been the core of the study of
psychoanalysis within the Lacanian conceptual field and it
has become increasingly relevant to the psychoanalytic clinic.
As he began his Seminar XXIII (1964), Lacan asks, ”what
conceptual status must we give to the four of the terms
introduced by Freud as fundamental concepts, namely the
unconscious, repetition, the transference, and the drive?”
Along with the precision that he asks of psychoanalysts,
in Seminar XXIII (1976), Lacan gives psychoanalysis an
orientation, that psychoanalysis is specifically a treatment
of the Real by the Symbolic...
As has been in previous years, the work of the ACP
its various seminars and events will be guided by
these questions. ”
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