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Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis Inc.


Workshops of the ACP 2009

ACP workshops present the work of analysts, students and other colleagues from cartels, research seminars and study groups of the Centre. They are open to members and students of the Centre and all interested colleagues. Peruse the workshop details below or subscribe to the acp-info distribution list to receive regular updates.

“Anything but the symptom” - Jouissance and the Body

Inaugural workshop of the ACP and the Lacan Circle of Melbourne

Saturday, March 21, 2009.


“Man has a body” writes Lacan in Seminar II (72-73); and therein lies the difficulty. The drives’ enjoyment is located on, or in, the body. However, the sexed, symbolic body of a subject who inhabits language depends on the maintaining of a boundary between the signified body and the living matter of the real. Symptoms knot this crucial relation between symbolic, imaginary and real registers, between the body and jouissance, and for this reason they are the focus of psychoanalytic treatment-at least at the outset. Yet symptoms are precisely what the psychiatric term “disorder” masks and medical research erases with the discovery of “organic” cause and pharmacological treatment. As for the patient who does not want to know anything about his or her jouissance, it is “anything but the symptom... ”

Program: Peruse the program or download a printable version(PDF, 114Kb).

Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009.
Location: Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville.
Cost:* Members of the ACP and LCM: $90, Students: $70, General admission: $100.

* Note, morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch are included in the price of admission.

For general enquiries about the workshops contact:
Dr Esther Faye, tel 0408 733 738.

P.O. Box 509, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia. ABN: 28 638 225 012
Tel (61 3) 9349 3462, Fax (61 3) 9329 9140