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The Australian Centre for Psychoanlaysis runs regular seminars throughout the year.
The Clinical Seminar presents cases relating to the year's theme. The Seminar on the Formation of the Analyst reflects on what it is to be an analyst and not simply an operator. The ACP also has a series of Tuesday seminars. The Monday Seminar has been replaced in 2012 by Réson. For information regarding each of the seminars contact the person listed below.
Theme for 2012: Psychoanalytic Acts: Effects On The Real
In 2012 the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis will turn its attention to studying the place of psychoanalysis in out times, its clinical and political effects. We know from our collective clinical experience that psychoanalysis impacts upon the real of the symptom, the real of the organism, and the possibility of social bonds. Nevertheless it is necessary for us to continue posing questions about how we achieve these effects and demonstrate the efficacy of the work we undertake as psychoanalysts. These questions build on our previous year's research into the aim of analysis, understood as the production of a new relation with the symptom, a know-how [savior-faire] with jouissance.
Lacan uses the term Psychoanalytic Act to refer to the moment of passage from analysand to analyst and insists that this is not a matter of conferring, but rather a transformation orientated by désêtre [dis-being]. Lacan invented "The Pass" as the mechanism through which an analysand could give testimony to the work of analysis and those charged with listening to this testimony can bear witness to the effect produced by an analysis. Is this the only way of verifying the effects of our work as psychoanalysts? How can we consider the relationship between these experiences, the end of analysis, the moment of The Pass, and the experience of the passage from analysand to analyst? These questions are central to the ethics of a Lacanian School and will be studied from various angles throughout the year.
Clinical Seminar 2012 - Psychoanalytic Acts: Effects on the Real
At the Clinical Seminar, cases relating to the year's theme are presented by members and students of the ACP. This is followed by a commentary by a discussant, one of the Practising Analysts of the Centre, and a general discussion. The Seminar is held on:
- - Saturdays 11.30am-1.00pm
- - Semester 1: February 25; March 10, 24; April 28; May 12, 26; June 9, 26;
- - Semester 2: August 4, 18; September 15, 29; October 20; November 3, 17; December 1
- - Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville
For further information contact:
Dr Serena Smith, Convenor, 0409 191 404, serena.smith (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.
Seminar on the formation of the analyst
“Analytic formation does not only prepare operators (Lacan, 1967).”
“The analyst derives his authorisation from himself alone [which] nevertheless does not imply that just anybody is an analyst… To authorise oneself is not to auto-ritualise. For I have also stated that the analyst is dependent on the not-all… For this, it is necessary to take the real into account…: there is knowledge in the real…”
“…the analyst represents the fall, the waste product… and in function of this he has to have located the cause of his horror, his very own, separated from that of everybody else's; the horror of knowing. From that moment on, he knows how to be a waste product… If this doesn't lead him to enthusiasm, there may well have been analysis, but not an analyst at all (Lacan, 1973).”
The Seminar on Formation of the Analyst will bring together the analysts, analysts-in-formation and students of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis in a sustained study and reflection on what it is to be an analyst and not simply an operator. The Seminar will take place on:
- - Saturdays 1.30pm-3.00pm, following the Clinical Seminar
- - Semester 1: March 24; April 28; May 26; June 23;
- - Semester 2: August 18, September 29, October 20, November 17
- - Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville
For further information contact:
Dr Esther Faye, esther.faye (at) psychoanalysis.org.au
or Susan Schwartz, susan.schwartz (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.
This seminar, conducted by Esther Faye and Susan Schwartz, will continue the close reading, begun in 2010, of Lacan’s Seminar of 1971-71, The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst and Seminar XIX . . . ou pire conducted in the same year. The texts are available via the internet through Karnac Books.
The seminars are available from Karnac Books in an unofficial translation made by Cormac Gallagher. Copies of the French transcription, also unofficial, are available from Association Lacanienne internationale.
- - Saturdays 11.30am-1.00pm
- - Semester 1: March 17, 31; April 21; May 5; 19; June 2, 16;
- - Semester 2: August 25; September 22; October 6, 27;
- - Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville.
For further information contact:
Susan Schwartz, susan.schwartz (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.
or Dr Esther Faye, esther.faye (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.
This seminar, which is now in its twenty-seventh year, will continue to study the works of Jacques Lacan.
- Tuesdays from 8.00pm-9.30pm
- Semester 1: April 17 until June 5 (8 weeks);
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Semester 2: September 4 until October 23 (8 weeks).
For further information contact:
Dr Leonardo Rodríguez, (03) 9349 3462, leonardo.rodriguez (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.
For further information contact:
Dr Ofelia Brozky, (02) 9389 2389, ofelia.brozky (at) psychoanalysis.org.au.