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What About the Body in Psychoanalysis? What is a body? At first glance, one might think that psychoanalysis is not the discipline to answer this question. However, it was to the hysterical patients’ bodily symptoms which rendered medicine powerless, that Freud owed the discovery of the Unconscious, and therefore of psychoanalysis. Lacan, in turn, will teach […]
Introduction to the Lacanian Psychoanalysis : Anxiety from Freud to Lacan Special guest: Florencia SHANAHAN Date: June 11, 2020Time: at 5:30 pm EDT Anxiety from Freud to Lacan Throughout their teachings, both Freud and Lacan approached anxiety as a privileged affect in human experience. Freud developed two distinct and apparently contradictory theories on anxiety. From […]
Introduction to the Lacanian Unconscious Second seminar: 6th of February The Freudian unconscious is not defined on the basis of consciousness but on the basis of speech. Freud’s discovery of the unconscious was founded on the fact that the dreams, slips, and symptoms he encountered in his practice meant something, that they were driven by a […]