SEMINAR BY GERRY SULLIVAN

on Saturday, March 20th, 2010 from 10a.m. to 1p.m. 
in the EDITH STEIN ROOM
Carmelite Parish Centre, Clarendon St., Dublin 2
(entrance opposite Brown Thomas car park, through Bell Cafe)

Title: The Role of the Father; Decline or Displacement?

From his earliest psychoanalytic writings, Lacan had noted a decline in the social efficacy of the role of the Father; leading, in his later writing, to a fragmentation from the Name to the Names of the Father, and to the introduction of the sinthome, as a perceived supplement to its failure in particular circumstances. In the decades since Lacan’s passing, this has led to a recognition of a significant quotidian or everyday aspect to psychosis, where it is held that there is a significant component of untriggered psychosis in modern societies. There has also emerged a tendency to flatten the traditional three major psychic structures into a bipolar contrast between neurosis and psychosis. Perversion is thus downgraded, and the tendency is to see the psychotic end of the bipolarity of structures as the one with radical, critical potential. I wish to argue against this tendency. It seems to me, both from clinical and theoretical motivations, that all three structures need to be regarded as quotidian or everyday. If we consider Freud’s position, distilled in ‘Civilisation and its Discontents, it is that normality is neurotic, and the other two major psychic structures are peripheral. It seems to me, as indeed it appeared to Lacan, that Freud is outlining the structure of a ‘Civilisation’ just as its fundaments are shifting. I will also suggest that what is emerging, indeed has emerged, is a circumstance where all three classical structures operate in tandem to subtend the ‘normality’ of our modernity. However, all three classical structures range themselves around the question of the Father, believing in the Father, not believing in the Father, and knowing of, but not believing in the potency of the Father. They therefore belong, it seems to me, to the masculine side of the formulae of sexuation. I will signal, rather than develop, some questions which are posed from the structure of the feminine side.

APPI   Members €15, Non-Members €20, Students €8

AGM will take place on Saturday, April 24th, 2010 at 11a.m. in the Carmelite Centre, Clarendon Street, Dublin 2

 16TH APPI ANNUAL CONGRESS
WILL TAKE PLACE ON NOVEMBER 28TH, 2009
in Education and Research Centre,
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin 4
TOPIC WILL BE
DEPRESSION AND MELANCHOLIA IN MODERN TIMES
A psychoanalytic Understanding
GUEST SPEAKER – MARIE-HELENE BROUSSE
Enquiries to mcbarry@eircom.net or  paulineocallaghan1@gmail.com

CPD POINTS AWARDED

Timetable for Congress

9.30 -10.00 am      Introduction – Martin Daly
First session:          Chair : Martin Daly
10.00 – 10.20        Kevin Murphy – “Anxiety-Neurotic Depression and its Obsessional Variant – a Clinical Persepective.”
10.20 – 10.40        Bernard Kennedy – “Depression as Unconscious Body Talk emanating from Memory through Oedipus complex: (a Freudian understanding of Melancholia)”
10.40 – 11.00        Cathal Morgan- “Depression and Suicide, what can psychoanalysis tell us?”
 11.00 – 11.30      Coffee
11.30 – 12.15       Key-note speaker: Marie-Hélène Brousse. 
                            Chair : Alan Rowan

Marie-Helene Brousse is a Psychoanalyst based in Paris who also holds a doctorate in Psychoanalysis (Paris VIII). She is a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP), the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne (ECF) and the English speaking New Lacaian School (NLS). She teaches in the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University Paris VIII. She has published widely on psychoanalysis and a range of her publications are available (in English) in “Lacanian Ink”, “Psychoanalytic Notebooks”, “Analysis” and “Hurly Burly: The International Lacanian Journal of Psychoanalysis”. She has also been a past President of the European School of Psychoanalysis.

12.15 – 13.00       Round table discussion. Chair : Olga Cox-Cameron
13.00 – 14.00       Lunch
14.00 – 14.40       Clinical Vignettes – Chair : Medb Ruane
- Marie O’Rourke – “The Pain of Loss”

- Marie Walshe -   “Siobhan: Sweet Angel of Melancholia.”  
- Marian Molloy – “A Subject and her Supports: the Case of Majella.”
- Sarmite Lucava – “Touch of the Real“
Second Session:     Chair – Rik Loose
14.40 – 15.00        Olga Cox-Cameron – “If this be a man…Can there be an aftermath to the malady of truth?”
15.00 – 15.20        Alan Rowan – “Am I me? – Loss and Depression”
15.20 – 15.50        Coffee
Third Session:        Chair – Eve Watson
15.50 – 16.10        Matthew Nolan – “In Search of Time: Solaris, a     Melancholic Fugue”
16.10 – 16.30        Ray O’Neill – “Losing Myself”: Mirror Stage Reflections in working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.
16.30 – 16.50       Denise Brett – “The Structure of Depression”
16.50 – 17.30        Round table discussion : Chair -Aisling Campbell

CONGRESS FEE:  Member €80     Student €40    Non-Member €100

Dinner that evening will be held in Eno Wine Bar, 1 Burton House, Custom House Square, IFSC, Dublin 1

Cost €55 per person (3 course set menu dinner plus half bottle of wine) 

Wine tasting €10 per person at 7p.m.

Lacan with Post-Freudians

Speaker: Rik Loose
“Is this still Psychoanalysis?”

Saturday 14th November 2009
11am to 1pm

Psychotherapy Dept
St. Vincent’s Hospital Fairview
Richmond Rd, Dublin 3

Fee €10

A SEMINAR BY BRUCE FINK

“An Exploration of Seminar XVIII, On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance ”

On Fri 18th September (6p.m. -8p.m., followed by a wine reception) and Sat 19th September 2009 (10a.m. – 12.30p.m.)
In St Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park, Dublin 4

Bruce Fink is a Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Member of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne, and Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University. He has translated many of Jacques Lacan’s works into English, including Ecrits and Seminar XX, Encore and his books include The Lacanian Subject and A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
The seminar will be based on a reading of Lacan’s seminar xviii, from 1970-71, D’un Discours qui ne Serait pas du Semblant (seminar xviii: On a Discourse that Might not be a Semblance) which sees Lacan struggling with Freud’s theory of the Oedipus Complex, and reinterpreting it. The Saturday morning session will be more clinical. The seminar is open to all those interested in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Those attending are invited to read the seminar in advance so that there may be lots of discussion. A translation by Cormac Gallagher is available from Karnac Books (karnacbooks.com).  Also the papers from the 2002  APPI congress, which had this theme, are published in The Letter, vol 27.

APPI Members €30, Non-Members €40, Students with student card €15 for weekend. As places are limited and demand is expected to be high you are urged to book in advance by sending a cheque (payable to APPI Ltd.) and details, including email address,  to Mary Barry, APPI. c/o KSi Faulkner Orr – KSi House – 10 Aungier Street – Dublin 2, Ireland. All enquiries to paulineocallaghan1@gmail.com.

                                                                                                The Irish Circle of the Lacanian Orientation

ICLO-NLS

is pleased to announce the first of its:

                                                                                               Clinical Conversations: The Modern Family

With Gil Caroz ^(*)

Programme includes Theoretical Papers, Clinical Cases & Commentaries

Saturday 27th June 2009

11am to 4pm

St Vincent’s Hospital Fairview

Richmond Rd – D3

Fee: 20 euro

                                           To register for this event please e-mail: florenciashanahan@svhf.ie

^(*) Psychoanalyst in Brussels, Member of the New Lacanian School (NLS), the School of the Freudian Cause (ECF) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP)

FORMATION CLINIQUE DU CHAMP LACANIEN

ENGLISH-SPEAKING SEMINAR IN PARIS
Organized by the Research Group for Clinical Formations in the Lacanian Field

Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 25,26, 27 June 2009
Reid Hall, 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
Métro Vavin, RER Port Royal, Bus 58,68,83,91

SEXUAL IDENTITY AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

When we refer to the subject of the unconscious as revised by Lacan, we are used to say that it has no identity, since it is always a « twosome », divided between two signifiers. More generally speaking, the unconscious is not fit to establish an identity, be it the sexual one, due to the fact that it is structured like a language.
Moreover, the uncertainty as to being a man or being a woman is a fact: the subject is troubled and doubts because it wants to be sure that it has actually the sex corresponding to its anatomy – unless a delusional certitude makes it raise objections as to this anatomy. Continue reading…

UPDATE – PLEASE NOTE

Between Obsessional Neurosis and Perversion:

 Working with the Fantasy in Lacanian

Psychoanalytic Practice

A CLINICAL  SEMINAR

by

DANY NOBUS

Professor Dany Nobus is the Chair of Psychology and Psychoanalysis at Brunel University. His books include Jacques Lacan and the Freudian Practice of Psychoanalysis,  Knowing Nothing, Staying Stupid: Elements for a Psychoanalytic Epistemology (with Malcolm Quinn) and a new edited book (with Lisa Downing) entitled Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis. In 2003, he also created the Journal for Lacanian Studies, the first international peer-reviewed journal for Lacanian psychoanalysis.

FRIDAY MAY 22ND,  2009       7P.M. – 9 P.M. please note time change

Perversion in the Obsessional Fantasy: On the Eroticisation of Religion

SATURDAY MAY 23RD, 2009   11A.M. – 1 P.M.

Anxiety and the Sexuality of the Other: When Perversion becomes the

Symptom of Psychoanalysis

EDITH STEIN ROOM

Carmelite Parish Centre, Clarendon St., Dublin 2

                                            APPI   Members €20.  Non-Members €25, Students €10 for weekend

Saturday March 7^th  2009 (2pm – 4.30pm) in Edith Stein Room & Sunday March 8^th, 2009

 (10.30-12.30pm) in St. Therese’s Room   

                                                                           AND

Saturday May 2^nd, 2009 (2pm – 4.30pm) in Edith Stein Room & Sunday May 3^rd, 2009 

 (11am – 1pm) in  St. Therese’s Room

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In 1905 Freud shocked his contemporaries by putting forward the view that adult sexuality was a developmental achievement and thus not something that could be understood by appeal to biology alone. Rather, he argued, sexual identity and adult sexual choices are contingent on how a subject negotiates his or her pathway through what Freud termed the Oedipus Complex – from – Freud stressed, an original point where human sexuality is polymorphous and minimally organised.

 Such a view has remained both important and controversial even as the universality of the Oedipus Complex, as conceptualised by Freud, came to be questioned.

 Lacan in his Seminar “Encore” (1972-73) radically re-evaluates the Freudian concept of the Oedipus Complex arguing for a new more rigorously defined way of understanding human sexuality, one which, however, insists that in human sexuality there is no one solution “for all”. This is because, as Lacan shows, human sexuality is a response to what he termed “the impossible” or Real, a point where something always fails – albeit if differently for men and for women. This seminar will focus on exploring Lacan’s work on the topic of human sexuality and related areas, paying particular attention to his use of logic and topology in his formulations on sexual difference

Jean-Gerard Bursztein practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Paris, He holds a doctorate in philosophy and his recent publications include the following:

On the difference between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, NEF, 2008.

Jouissance féminine et hypothèse mathématique du continu, NEF, 2008,

Introduction à la science psychoanalytic en 2007, NEF, 2007

La structure moebienne de la bisexualité, NEF, 2007

APPI   Members €20.  Non-Members €25, Students €10 per weekend

Saturday, April 25th, 2009 in Carmelite Centre, Clarendon Street, Dublin 2 (entrance opposite Brown Thomas Car Park,  enter through Bell Cafe ).  Commences at 10a.m.