Pablo Picasso, Claude Writing,1951. Oil on Canvas
WORKSHOP ON CHILD ANALYSIS  The Child and Language  Catherine Vanier   Saturday, April 24, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From birth to death human subjects are beings of language. They are immediately taken hold of, taken up with and by the words of the Other, before they’ve even had a chance to speak themselves.
Using clinical examples we will examine how children gain access to the word, and the traumatic consequences that follow, as much in normal conditions of young children’s lives as in psychoanalytic treatments. Continue reading WORKSHOP ON CHILD ANALYSIS: The Child and Language — Catherine Vanier online with Après-Coup

Kazimir Malevich, Female Torso, 1928-9

SEMINAR: On Voluntary Servitude  with Paola Mieli    Saturday, April 17th, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
In times like these, as new forms of totalitarianism are taking over everywhere, it’s necessary to reflect on humans’ inherent propensity to take joy in their own servitude. Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s articulations of the subject of language and the social link, and that subject’s passion for ignorance, the seminar will explore the nature of the drive, masochism, and the ways the superego dictates the law one abides by. Psychoanalytic ethics can open a breach out of subjective servitude.
Suggested readings for April 17: Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563), The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude; S. Freud, Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego (1921), The Ego and the Id, Chapters III and V (1922); H. Kelsen, The Conception of the State and Social Psychology: With Special Reference to Freud’s Group Theory (1922). Continue reading On Voluntary Servitude with Paola Mieli at Après-Coup

Cy Twombly, Untitled (23), 1972
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WORKSHOP  The Act, Specific to Speech Jean-Michel Vappereau Saturday, March 27, 2021 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
To address the question of “the act of speech” in psychoanalysis, we must return to the terms “act” and “speech” starting from Freud’s discovery and Lacan’s critical commentary on it.  Suggested reading: “L’Étourdit” (1973), Autres écrits.

Jean-Michel Vappereau practices psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires, where he gives a public seminar on psychoanalysis and topology at the association Topologie en Extension; he is a professor in the Psychoanalysis Master’s program of the Universidad Kennedy in Argentina, and a Continue reading The Act, Specific to Speech with Jean-Michel Vappereau online with Après-Coup

Carol Rama, Lusinghe (Flattery), 2003  © Archivio Carol Rama, Turin

FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS  Sexuation and Loss of Being in the Act of Speech  Paula Hochman  Friday, March 26, 2021 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
What consequences does entering into speech have for speaking beings? Two major ones: first, sexuation of the speaking body, and second, the loss of being known as “alienation.”  We will explore these implications and their clinical impact.
Suggested readings: Freud: “Some Character-Types Met with in Psycho-Analytic Work” (1916). Lacan: Seminars, VII, 1959-60, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, May 25, 1960; XI, 1964, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, May 27; XXIII, 1975-76, Le sinthome, 16 décembre 1975. Continue reading Sexuation and Loss of Being in the Act of Speech with Paula Hochman online with Après-Coup

Kazimir Malevich, Female Torso, 1928-9

SEMINAR On Voluntary Servitude   Paola Mieli With the participation of  Raffaella Colombo
Saturday, March 20th, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
In times like these, as new forms of totalitarianism are taking over everywhere, it’s necessary to reflect on humans’ inherent propensity to take joy in their own servitude. Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s articulations of the subject of language and the social link, and that subject’s passion for ignorance, the seminar will explore the nature of the drive, masochism, and the ways the superego Continue reading SEMINAR: On Voluntary Servitude — Paola Mieli online with Après-Coup