Workshops of the ACP 2008
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Sydney Lacan Workshop 2008
What is that Thing called Love?
Saturday November 15th
9.00 am to 4.00 pm
761 Darling Street, Rozelle
RANZ College of Psychiatrists NSW Branch HQ.
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Lacan did not include love among the fundamental concepts of
psychoanalysis; however, there is no psychoanalysis without
transference and transference is a matter of love. Throughout
his Seminars, Lacan spoke at length about love, maintaining
that, love is to give something one does not have (Seminar Book
VIII, 23.11.60: 15). That's what love is. It's one's own ego
that one loves in love, one's own ego made real on the
imaginary level (Seminar Book I, p.142). Among the forms of
love that we can define through Freud's writings are erotic
love, courtly love, sublimated love and the love of our
neighbour. All these modalities of love implicate the
unconscious, desire and jouissance. To make love (faire
l'amour), as the very expression indicates, is poetry. But
there is a world between poetry and the act. (Seminar Book XX,
p.72). Love has a crucial function in the constitution of the
subject. This workshop aims to explore the question of love,
and hence, the constitution of the subject, from a
psychoanalytic perspective.
Further information, contact: Ofelia Brozky, tel. (02)
9389-2389.
For general enquiries about the workshops contact:
Dr EstherFaye, tel 0408 733 738.
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