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Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis Inc.

Workshops of the ACP 2008

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.

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.

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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