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Love in Plato's Symposium and Lacan's Transference seminar
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2011)This article focuses on Lacan’s eighth seminar on Transference, specifically his references to Plato’s Symposium, and more particularly the attention he pays therein to the interaction and dialogue between Alcibiades, ... -
Lacan and the Sophist - indications of the logic of the subject
(Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, 2000)In the Seminar Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis Lacan suggests that the logical conditions for the subsistence of the subject are indicated in Plato’s Sophist. Lacan argues that the same conditions are necessary for ... -
Discovering transference
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2006)Today we are marking the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud. Why? Because he founded a new clinical practice, named psychoanalysis. His radical step, which he himself described, retrospectively, ... -
Memory and phantasy
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1999)There is a presupposition in the term 'false memory syndrome' that there are memories that are true and memories that are false; that a false memory is something fabricated and that it therefore has no bearing on the truth; ... -
Reading Plato's Symposium
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1997)Lacan decided that an analysis of the Symposium of Plato in his Seminar of 1960 - 1961 would be an illuminating detour by which to investigate the transference relation in psychoanalysis. This investigation centred on the ... -
Plato's good for Lacan
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 1998)This paper is about sex. And if it is about sex, it is about number. In the final weeks of the Seminar entitled Crucial Problems for Psychoanalysis Lacan identifies what has been a theme, perhaps the major one, of that ... -
Symptom and anxiety
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2004)What follows is the text of a talk presented at the sixth annual conference of the Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups held in Omaha, Nebraska in September 2004. The APW began several years ago with the aim of providing ... -
Lacan's invention
(The School of Psychotherapy at SVUH, 2006)Lacan was always concerned with what was distinctive about psychoanalysis, with what is new with psychoanalysis, and why it is justifiable to speak of the Freudian discovery. This concern occupied him no less in Les non-dupes ... -
The addicted subject caught between the ego and the drive : the post-Freudian reduction and simplification of a complex clinical problem
(Psychoanalytische Perspectieven, 2000)Texts by Abraham, Rado, Glover and Gross are explored in order to investigate post-Freudian literature on the question of addiction. The reduction of the Freudian field is analysed in order to produce new foundation stones ... -
'Per via di porre', 'per via di levare', 'per via di tagli' : contemporary symptoms and the art of interpretation
(Association of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland, 2010)In Du Discours Psychanalytique Lacan seems to argue that the discourse of the master produces the discourse of the capitalist, or at least, he implies that the discourse of the capitalist is produced by a warping of the ...