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How come I suffer the way I do?
There is a question of this kind at the
beginning of an analysis.
How do we hear such a question? How do we
interpret such a request?
Can we, should we answer it? Perhaps, the
psychoanalyst is an expert after all and has got all the
answers!? Ready-made answers for average individuals?
Well, if the psychoanalyst knows something it
must be that there is an incommensurability between the
average normality and the singularity of a so-called
individual.
So, the psychoanalyst does not resort to a
Big Book where all the answers are already written but
will invite the analysand to open his/her own book! And
they’ll start reading. It’s called interpreting.
But what could interpreting be if it is not
telling someone what something means?
That is precisely what the NLS Seminar will
tackle next year. We have to face the fact that
interpretation in psychoanalysis is not the same as what it
is in philosophy, religion or therapy. To face that fact and
to account for it! During seven seminars we will address
fundamental aspects of the practice of Lacanian analysis,
which make it different from any other talking cure.
What do we listen to?
Who knows what’s important? Who decides what
means something, and what something means? What is the
authority in psychoanalysis?
What do we hope for, expect from meaning?
Is there something beyond or after meaning -
if anything at all?
This is nothing short of questioning the
causality by which Lacanian psychoanalysis abides.
V. Dachy |
Dear Colleagues,
Lacanian Interpretation is the theme of work of the London
Society for the school year, 2008-9. This inescapably
clinical theme presents us with key questions and challenges
through which to develop practice.
The work will unfold through various events and endeavours:
- Seminar of the London Society of the NLS: 6
sessions, commencing 18th October 2008. Further dates are
given below.
- NLS 'Knottings' (Nouages) Seminar - 7th February
2009, London
- VIIth NLS Congress 9th/10th May 2009, Paris.
- Cartels 'Towards Paris': Colleagues are invited to
form cartels to engage with this vital theme. If you would
like to be put in touch with others seeking cartel partners,
please contact Natalie Wulfing, as the person nominated to
co-ordinate in London on behalf of the NLS.
- Reading: Two documents with references are attached
, providing co-ordinates with which to orient work. The
first is the argument for the VIIth NLS Congress, due to
take place in Paris in May 2009. The A further text by
Jacques-Alain Miller, entitled Intepretation in
Psychoanalysis, will be circulated following translation.
We look forward to working with you.
Regards,
Penny Georgiou
Chair
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