The Psychoanalytic Post

Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION Friday, March 28, 2014 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm LACAN ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SAVOIR-FAIRE AND THE SINTHOME, Seminar ADRIANA PASSINI and MARTIN WINN Beginning with readings of selected classes from Lacan’s Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of  Psychoanalysis, we will address the notions of the unconscious, repetition, and transference, and Lacan’s idea of psychoanalysis […]

Saturday, March 15, 2014 10:30am – 2:00pm Sunday, March 16, 2014 10:30am – 2:00pm POSITIONS OF THE SUBJECT IN SEXUATION, Workshop JEAN-MICHEL VAPPEREAU Starting with his paper “L’étourdit” (1973), Lacan draws a connection between the subject’s position in sexuation and Freud’s structures of the symptom. This connection becomes the basis for differentiating three sexualized positions, […]

Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION Friday, February 28, 2014, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm LACAN ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SAVOIR-FAIRE AND THE SINTHOME, Seminar ADRIANA PASSINI and MARTIN WINN Beginning with readings of selected classes from Lacan’s Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of  Psychoanalysis, we will address the notions of the unconscious, repetition, and transference, and Lacan’s idea of psychoanalysis as […]

Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION Friday, February 7, 2014 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm ADDITIONAL NOTE: In addition to discussing chapter IV, ‘The network of Signifiers” of Seminar XI, we will also review the letter #52, where Freud explains to Fliess, about how his conception of the psychic apparatus has to do with the sequence of inscriptions -”Niederschriften”- in Lacan terms signifiers. We […]

Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION Friday, February 7, 2014 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm LACAN ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SAVOIR-FAIRE AND THE SINTHOME, Seminar ADRIANA PASSINI and MARTIN WINN Beginning with readings of selected classes from Lacan’s Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of  Psychoanalysis, we will address the notions of the unconscious, repetition, and transference, and Lacan’s idea of psychoanalysis […]

Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION Friday, January 24, 2014 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm LACAN BETWEEN GIDE AND GENET: DICHTUNG AND WAHRHEIT, BUT OTHERWISE, Visiting Speaker JEAN-MICHEL RABATE The “othering” process of literary autobiography may generate a certain truth, yet it must pass through fantasy, whose structure, as Genet showed Lacan, is that it should not seem […]

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents The Frenzy of the Fathers Claude Rabant Saturday, November 9, 2013 10:30 am – 2:00 pm The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, Room 408, New York, NY Rather than deploring the “end of the paternal myth,” Lacan replaces the signifier of the Name-of-the-Father with saying (le dire). This […]

Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION Friday, November 1, 2013, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm LACAN ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SAVOIR-FAIRE AND THE SINTHOME, Seminar ADRIANA PASSINI and MARTIN WINN Beginning with readings of selected classes from Lacan’s Seminar XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, we will address the notions of the unconscious, repetition, and transference, and Lacan’s idea […]

Après-Coup PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION Friday, September 20, 2013, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Saturday, September 21, 2013, 10:30am – 2:00pm AN ARTISAN’S KNOW-HOW, Workshop PURA CANCINA In what way does psychoanalysis affect the subject’s relation to knowledge? Lacan differentiates between knowledge and savoir y faire. We will illustrate this differentiation clinically. SUGGESTED READINGS: Lacan, Seminars XXIII, Le sinthome, […]

Click Here to View:  A Story from Lacan’s Practice.  as told by Suzanne Hommel, in analysis with Lacan in 1974.   Excerpt from Gérard Miller’s film ‘Rendez-vous chez Lacan ‘ on YouTube.