Seminars for 2009

• Clinical Seminars
• International Lacan Seminar
• Monday Seminar
• Sydney seminars
• Tuesday Seminar

Clinical Seminars

Theme for 2010: Formation of the Analyst
Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville,
Saturdays, 11.30am – 1pm

Towards the end of the paper “On Freud’s “Trieb” and the Psychoanalyst’s Desire” Lacan raises the following crucial questions.

“What then can the analyst’s desire be? What can the treatment to which the analyst devotes himself be? […] What then is the aim [fin] of psychoanalysis beyond therapeutics? It is impossible not to distinguish the two when the point is to create an analyst.

For, as I have said, without going into the mainspring of transference, it is ultimately the analyst’s desire that operates in psychoanalysis.” (Lacan, 2006:724)

The question of the analyst’s desire and its function in the formation of the analyst is as pressing today as it was in 1964,when Lacan posed these questions. Through discussion of clinical material we will try to shed light on these matters that lie at the heart of psychoanalytic practice.

For further information contact:
Dr Serena Smith, Convenor, 0409 191404,
email: serenasm(a)internode.on.net.
Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis Inc A0019394 ABN 2863225012

International Lacan Seminar

Psychoanalysts and teachers of international standing conduct this series of intensive weekend seminars on current issues in psychoanalytic theory and practice. The seminars are open to members and students of the Centre, and colleagues interested in the discourse and clinic of psychoanalysis.

Dr. Gabriel Lombardi - Unravelling the mysteries of the speaking body:
How psychoanalysis treats the somatic root of the symptom in different clinical types

Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis in association with the Melbourne Forum.

Friday 9th - Sunday 11th April 2010
Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville.

Dr. Gabriel Lombardi is a psychoanalyst, physician and doctor in psychology of the University of Buenos Aires, Analyst Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Lacanian Field, Forum of River Plate, Senior Lecturer in the Clinical College of the River Plate. Dr. Lombardi is the author of numerous publications on psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Psychoanalysis may be considered a treatment of the speaking body, which changes during the analytical process, in sensitivity, shape, symptom, satisfaction and wellbeing. These changes are not miraculous, but rather the body's reaction to the intervention of the analyst. The body is not only the organism, but also the interface between life and the signifier. The body is not only life, but the place where life reacts to language, and as a result, the only place of enjoyment for a living and speaking being.

That psychoanalysis is a treatment of the speaking body may be sustained on different levels. On a conceptual plane we speak of the body's drive, its defence against it; of anxiety as the sensation of reduction to the mere body; of fragments of the body becoming libidinal objects. We even speak of "hysterisation" of the symptom, and the body's sensitivity to the desire of the Other. At the level of practice, we find the body responding to the analyst's interpretation.

From an ethical point of view, psychoanalysis implies a healthy restriction of heaven and hell to the limits of our body - a salutary atheist principle.

The talking cure doesn't take place in a single language; the body expresses itself in different dialects, even in different languages. Each type of symptom represents quite different possibilities of somatic language; the recognition of those types gives support to the analyst's interpretation and more generally to the reception of the patient's transference in the setting of the analytic act. Anguish and symptom may be studied particularly as structural compasses that guide analyticl work.

We are going to include material on the somatic symptom and the direction of the treatment in the different clinical types of symptom: psychosis, perversion and neurosis.

Friday, April 9
Registration 7.30pm-8.00pm
           
8.00pm-9.30pm:  Public Lecture
The talking cure and the speaking body nowadays. The subtle, talkative language of hysteria and obsessional neurosis’ isolation of one’s “own” body.

Saturday, April 10
Registration 8.30am-9.00am

9.00-10.30: Session 1           
The fear of the body. Anxiety as a feeling of one’s reduction to a mere body; phobia and perversion; the phallus: castration’s subject.

10.30-11.00: Morning Tea

11.00-12.30: Session 2           
The organ’s language of schizophrenia and the corpse’s language of melancholia.

12.30-1.30: Lunch

1.30-3.00: Session 3           
Case presentation by Dr Esther Faye and discussion by Dr Lombardi.

3.00-3.30: Afternoon Tea

3.30-5.00: Session 4           
Homo and hetero enjoyment of the body. Sexual reality in our time.

Sunday, April 11
Registration 9.00am-9.30am

9.30-11.00: Session 5           
Somatic causes and the compass for psychoanalytical practice: the symptom as incarnation of the subject’s division.

11.00-11.30: Morning Tea

11.30-1.00: Session 6
Discussion and conclusion

Essential bibliography

Freud, Sigmund.
(1896b) Further remarks on the neuro-psychosis of defence. SE 3: 159
(1905d) Three essays on the theory of sexuality. SE 7: 125
(1814c) On narcissism. An introduction. SE 14: 69
(1915c) Instincts and their vicissitudes.SE 14: 111
(1917e [1915]) Mourning and melancholia. SE 14: 219
(1915e) The unconscious. Chapter 7. SE 14: 161
(1926 [ 1925]) Inhibitions, symptom and anxiety. SE 20: 77.

Lacan, Jacques.
Seminars
(1962-63) Seminar X: Anxiety. Unpublished manuscript.
(1966-67) Seminar XIV. The Logic of the Fantasy. Unpublished manuscript.
(1991c [1964]) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-analysis.
[Seminar XI] Ed. J-A. Miller, Trans. A. Sheridan. London and New York: Penguin Books.
(1992 [1959-60]) The Seminar, Book VII. The Ethics of Psychoanalysis.
              Ed. J-A. Miller. Trans and notes, D. Potter. London: Routledge.
 (1998 [1972-73]) The Seminar, Book XX, Encore. On Feminine Sexuality:
             The Limits of Love and Knowledge. Ed. J-A Miller, Trans. and notes, B. Fink.
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company.

From Écrits:
(2006 [1949]). “The mirror stage”. In Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English. Trans. B.
Fink, in collaboration with H. Fink and R. Grigg. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company.

From Autres Écrits. Paris : Éditions du Seuil (2001):
Radiophonie (1970)*
L’étourdit (1973)*
Introduction à l’édition allemande d’un premier volume des Écrits (1973)*

Other texts
Tokyo discourse (1971)*
(1990 [1973]) Television: A challenge to the psychoanalytic establishment. W. W. Norton & Co.
*Available in http://www.missouri.edu/~stonej/t67894312xxxv.html

For further information contact:

Dr Susan Schwartz 0408 120 549, susanschwartz (a) ozemail.com.au
Dr Carl Scuderi 0438 281 789
or Ursula Paton, 0438 009 454, ursulapaton (a) optushome.com.au.

International Lacan Seminar 2010 Program (PDF, 212Kb) 

Monday Seminar

A close reading of Lacan’s Seminar XIX, . . . .ou Pire (1971-72) and his contemporaneous series of seven talks at St Anne’s, The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst, will be conducted by Megan Williams, Esther Faye and Susan Schwartz. The seminar will be held on:

• Monday evenings in second semester
• Venue and dates to be announced

Enquiries to Dr Megan Williams megan(a)mwilliams.com.au

Sydney Seminars

For further information and enquires contact:
Dr Eleanor Sebel, Tel: (02) 9371 9585.

Tuesday Seminar

This seminar, which is now in its twenty-sixth year, will continue to study the works of Jacques Lacan. In 2010, the Tuesday Seminar will begin on Tuesday, April 6. The texts to be studied will be “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious” and “Position of the Unconscious”.

Further information and enquiries:

Dr Leonardo Rodriguez, tel (03) 9349 3462. E-mail LeonardoSRodriguez(a)bigpond.com
The Tuesday Seminar is open to all interested colleagues.