Kazimir Malevich, Female Torso, 1928-9

SEMINAR: On Voluntary Servitude   Paola Mieli   Saturday, February 27th, 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 dictates the law one abides by. Psychoanalytic ethics can open a breach out of subjective servitude.
Suggested readings for Febrary 27: Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563), The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude; S. Freud, On Narcissism: An Introduction (1914); S. Freud, Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego (1921); S. Freud, “The Libido Theory” in Two Encyclopaedia Articles (1922). Continue reading On Voluntary Servitude with Paola Mieli online with Après-Coup

 

Pablo Picasso, Femme couchée lisant (Reclining Woman Reading), 1960
© Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

WORKSHOP  The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real Body Erik Porge   Saturday, February 20, 2021 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (EST)
2020 has been a moment of truth for analysts, too. The pandemic and State health regulations related to it had an impact on the practice of psychoanalysis, unveiling confusions and misunderstandings on the part of the analysts themselves. Psychoanalysis is based on the subjective presence in the treatment, where the relation between speech and body weaves together life, death, sexuality, i.e. the drives and their vicissitudes. Presence allows for the psychoanalytic act to take place and for the treatment to unfold. The issues of “cure” in analysis Continue reading The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real Body with Erik Porge online with Après-Coup

Jackson Pollock, Shimmering Substance, 1946
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: Is Jouissance a Psychoanalytic Concept?  Darian Leader   Saturday, January 16, 2021
11:00 AM – 1:30 PM (EST)

To register, click here. 
Advanced Lacanians are supposedly those who have a ‘clinic of the real’ or of ‘jouissance,’ but beyond the sophisticated terms we often find feeble and unhelpful conceptualizations. The label ‘jouissance’ is now used almost entirely descriptively, thus blocking further exploration of a variety of clinical issues and shutting down rather than opening up clinical and conceptual questions about the symptom, the body, repetition, and sexuality. Continue reading Is Jouissance a Psychoanalytic Concept? with  Darian Leader at Après-Coup

SEMINAR; Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 3 Adriana Passini Friday, December 11, 2020  6:30 PM – 8:30 PM To register, click here
Returning to Freud’s considerations on repetition in the analytic experience as a form of past behavior that emerges in the present, this seminar will study repetition in its dual aspect, both as an insistence of the signifying chain and as an encounter with an object missed by definition.
Suggested readings: Lacan: Seminars: II, The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954, class 16; XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 1964, class 2; XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, 1969, class 3.

Adriana Passini, LCSW, practices psychoanalysis in NYC, and is a member and faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the advisory board of the American Psychoanalytic Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.
General fee: $20 For students with ID: $10 With 2 CE Credits
Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers: $40
For Members, AFs, and Yearly Participants of Après-Coup: No fee Continue reading Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 3 with Adriana Passini at Après-Coup

Critical Psychopharmacology Peter Stastny Saturday, November 14, 2020  10:30 AM – 2:00 PM To register, click here. 

On the basis of a brief historical survey on the use of psychotropic substances and their complex electrochemical information, this workshop will address the goal of freedom of choice in the biochemical reshaping of the self. Mood, madness, and anxiety are the three targets of chemical neuromodulation undercutting diagnostics and personal specificity. In a future shaped by cybernetic, neuroplastic, and interconnected models of the mind, can there be a liberationist auto-psychopharmacology? Continue reading Critical Psychopharmacology with Peter Stastny Online with Après-Coup