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​Speaking is the core of humanity. Listening is the heart of psychoanalysis.



“Negation is a way of taking cognizance of what is repressed”
(Freud, 1925, p. 235)
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​Clinical Case Conference 2022-2023
​Lacanian diagnosis: what for?

A Lacanian school’s primary concern is the formation of analysts. In addition to personal analysis and control analysis the clinical case conference is the third main element supporting this work.
Candidate analysts present cases to articulate what is at stake for each analysand, to gauge the effects of the analyst’s intervention, and to create and discuss questions arising from the work with the unconscious.
Sections are convened for the year, organized into small groups (overseen by senior analysts and sometimes guest analysts) then dissolved and reorganized with different configurations of candidates and analysts the following year.
The clinical case conference provides an essential part of the analyst formation because it relies on the mode of oral transmission via dynamic discussion of particular cases. The stakes are somewhat higher for a Lacanian School, taking into consideration we must not miss - in fact make room for - the impossible, the unsayable and thus face the ultimate emptiness of signification. 
 
Location        Online meetings with ZOOM
Dates            3rd Saturday every month; 10 am-12 pm Pacific Time
Fee               $350 or tuition
Participants    Open to LSP members; non member clinicians upon request
Contact          Dr. Cécile Gouffrant at cecilepsyd@gmail.com
 
Recommended reading
Verhaeghe, Paul (2008) On Being Normal and Other Disorders. Karnac, London.

 
Confidentiality
Since we will be discussing clinical cases, our meetings will never be recorded. Participants agree to never discuss any of the clinical material presented outside of the seminar.
 
Seminar offered by the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis

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