Impasse Redux with Ann Rudovsky & Jules Owen online with CFS

PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN: IMPASSE REDUX  with Ann Rudovsky, LCSW & Jules Owen, SJD, LP  Friday, May 14, 2021 1:30-3:00pm Online via Zoom
 
An impasse is a blind alley, a predicament from which there is no obvious escape. When not worked through, impasses can lead to prolonged stalemates, often with the patient leaving prematurely or being unable to move towards a meaningful termination. The potential for an impasse to emerge is overdetermined: it can both express and conceal a variety of feelings that may be unbearable for the patient to tolerate and for the analyst to work through. Just as both patient and analyst play a role in creating and then perpetuating the impasse, each also feels thwarted, blaming the other for not seeing their point of view.

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FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS:  What Is Speaking?  Alain Vanier with Après-Coup

FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS:  What Is Speaking?  Alain Vanier  Friday, April 23, 2021 •  6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Saturday, April 24, 2021 •  1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Time Zone: Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada)
By introducing notions such as lalangue, “saying” (le dire), and “the said” (le dit), Lacan alters, without abandoning, the scope of the function of speech and spoken language as articulated by Freud, albeit in a paradoxical manner which we will explore. 
Suggested readings: Lacan: Seminars XIX, 1971-72, Ou pire; XX, 1972-73, Encore; “Le savoir du psychanalyste” (lectures, 1971-72, Hôpital Sainte-
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