‘How to Act’
- Ethics and the Psychoanalytic Clinic in a
culture of suppression and demand.
St. Vincent’s University Hospital
On
November 20th 2010
Guest Speaker: To be confirmed

Contact eve.watson@independentcolleges.ie or mcbarry@eircom.net for more details 

A 2-day Seminar on:
 
A Topological Reformulation of the Psychoanalytic Clinic – Part II

Saturday, June 19th, 2010 from 2:00p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
&
 Sunday, June 20th, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. 

Upstairs, Carmelite Parish Centre, Clarendon St., Dublin 2
(entrance opposite Brown Thomas car park, through Bell Cafe)
On-Site Contact: Eve Watson 087 9678965
& Joanne Conway 086 8359961

Jean-Gerard Bursztein practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Paris.  He holds a doctorate in philosophy

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

in the EDITH STEIN ROOM
Carmelite Parish Centre, Clarendon St., Dublin 2
(entrance opposite Brown Thomas car park, through Bell Cafe)
Title: Working with Sexual Offenders

Friday evening’s talk is entitled “Some reflections on criminal acts.” Can our notions of ‘repetition’, ‘acting-out’ and ‘passage à l’acte’ be applied to these acts? Which other theoretical devices do we need? Saturday morning’s talk will be of  a more clinical nature.
Enquiries to adminatappi@gmail.com
APPI   Members €20, Students €10, Non-Members €25

 “THE MOMENT TO CONCLUDE or…
Accounting for one’s own formation”

A review, testimony & presentation to the APPI community of the consequences, effects & impasses produced by the POF

Saturday 29th May 2010

10am – 1pm

Free of charge to members

Education & Research Centre
St Vincent’s University Hospital
Elm Park – Dublin 4

will give a seminar on

 
A Topological Reformulation of the Psychoanalytic Clinic

on Saturday, April 10th, 2010 from 2p.m. – 4.30 p.m.
and Sunday April 11th, 2010 from 11a.m. to 1p.m. 

in the ST. THERESE’S ROOM
Carmelite Parish Centre, Clarendon St., Dublin 2
(entrance opposite Brown Thomas car park, through Bell Cafe)

Jean-Gerard Bursztein practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Paris.  He holds a doctorate in philosophy.

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

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

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.

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

“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.