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December 2014
Scott Von: SCHIZOANALYSIS
Scott Von is a psychoanalyst and physician and Director of the New Clinic for Integral Medicine and Psychiatry in New York. He has taught as a professor at NYU, CUNY, Pacific College, and ACTCM Medical School, and is a member of Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. He is also a poet and artist currently working with the Cabinet Gallery in London where he has produced the four volume multimodal work Autopoesis. He is the author of the forthcoming Schizoanalysis: Chaos & Complexity in Clinical…
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Dana Amir: CLEFT TONGUE: THE LANGUAGE OF PSYCHIC STRUCTURES
BRIEF SYNOPSIS Cleft Tongue is an attempt to analyse psychic language and its diverse modes of expression, both within psychic structure and in the interpersonal realm. It begins by looking at two basic forms of delay in the development of psychic language: concrete language, which is based on flattening, and pseudo-language, which is rooted in concealment. The next chapter focuses on the split between voice and meaning which marks psychotic syntax, and the latter’s double function in defending the self…
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Conference: Psychoanalysis on Ice
We invite psychoanalysts of all theoretical orientations to meet in Reykjavik and discuss foundational psychoanalytic concepts as well as the challenges of psychoanalysis today. The history of psychoanalysis has been fraught with divisions, separations, excommunications, and seemingly unbridgeable rifts. That historical divisions are often transmitted makes for a markedly chilly present. We hope to potentiate deeper engagement among psychoanalysts, revisiting and revivifying fundamental concepts, and to consider together the challenges that face us all, from the abstract to the practical.…
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Marcus Coelen: PHILOLOGICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS? TEXTUAL AND CLINICAL QUESTIONS
Marcus Coelen – Psychoanalyst in Berlin and Paris; researcher affiliated with the University of Munich; editor and translator into German of Maurice Blanchot. "I would like to speak about "radical philology" in Freud. What I mean by this term is not so much the academic and institutional disciplines Freud admired and drew on, at times heavily (see e.g. the study on "The Uncanny", “The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words” or sections in "Totem and Taboo" or "The Man Moses"). It is,…
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June 2014
Angelo Villa: Pyschoanalysis and the Handicapped
I am pleased to send an announcement for our final clinical study day with Angelo Villa on June 7th from 2-4pm at 80 Fifth Avenue Room Room G529. What I think is of particular interest to Das Unbehagen is Villa's diverse training, including experience working in institutions for autism and the handicapped, psychosis and severe trauma, as well as, with children and families. He is someone whose work ranges from clinical studies, to Lacanian and Kleinian theory, to rock and…
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Patricia Gherovici: TWO FUND(a)MENTAL CONCEPTS OF LACANIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS – THE PHALLUS AND OBJECT « a »
Four classes: May 22, 29, June 19, 26, 2014. Can psychoanalysis rethink sexuality without fully relying on the controversial and contested notion of the phallus? The simplest, schematic version of the Freudian Oedipal model offers a binary logic of having or not having it, of presence or absence: boys have it, girls don’t. For Freud, castration is a loss that women think they have suffered and that men fear. For Lacan, the phallus is clearly not the penis; for him…
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The Unbehagen party was a rip roaring blast and really such fun and good feeling, dancing, talking... Psychoanalysts can dance apparently. Special super duper thanks to Orna for allowing us access to a incredible roof with fabulous view. And Michael G. for his organizing and invites. It was great to take a break and to talk about Unbehagen. We talked about a lot of things, the past, the future, Iceland, publications to come (more on that soon). Here are just a…
Find out more »Genevieve Morel: THE DESIRE OF THE ANALYST
Genevieve Morel is a practicing psychoanalyst in Paris and Lille. Her numerous books include Sexual Ambiguities, (Karnac, 2011), and the soon-to-be-translated La Loi de ma Mere: Essai sur le Sinthome Sexuel (the Law of the Mother: Essay on the Sexual Sinthome) (Broche, 2000), And recently with Darian Leader, Clinique de Suicide, 2012. She is the President of Savoir et Clinique (Knowledge and Clinic) an association for the permanent formation of the psychoanalyst and regularly publishes a journal by the same name. She…
Find out more »Genevieve Morel: THE UNSUBMERSIBLE FANTASM
Genevieve Morel is a practicing psychoanalyst in Paris and Lille. Her numerous books include Sexual Ambiguities, (Karnac, 2011), and the soon-to-be-translated La Loi de ma Mere: Essai sur le Sinthome Sexuel (the Law of the Mother: Essay on the Sexual Sinthome) (Broche, 2000), And recently with Darian Leader, Clinique de Suicide, 2012. She is the President of Savoir et Clinique (Knowledge and Clinic) an association for the permanent formation of the psychoanalyst and regularly publishes a journal by the same name. She…
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Anke Hennig: SPECULATIVE REALISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Anke Hennig teaches at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin and is a Research Fellow in the Collaborative Research Centre 626 ‘Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits’. Her recent publications have addressed cinematic fiction, the present-tense novel, and speculative poetics. She is the author of Sowjetische Kinodramaturgie (Soviet Cinematic Dramaturgy, 2010) and, in cooperation with Armen Avanessian, co-author of Präsens. Poetik eines Tempus (Present Tense. A Poetics, 2012) and Metanoia. Spekulative Ontologie der Sprache (Metanoia. Speculative Ontology of…
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