Events and Seminars
| Event | : | Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter |
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| Venue | : | Birkbeck, University of London, Mallet Street, WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom |
| Date | : | 05/10/2024 |
| Duration | : | 5 – 7pm GMT |
| Extra Info | : | Forum of London is invites you to join Colette Soler for a presentation of her book Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter This book addresses the theme of identification and identity in the psychoanalytic clinic as elaborated by Jacques Lacan over the course of his teaching. In psychoanalysis, the subject who is summoned “to speak himself”, is by definition lacking in identity. His question is “What am I?” but, as he is only represented by his words, his being is “always elsewhere”, within other words that are yet to come. Thus, a paradox: one seeks via speech the identity of a being who, through his speech, is not identifiable. Yet the fact remains, he has a body, and he is riveted to sufferings that psychoanalysis, from Freud to Lacan, identified, which are not accidental, which we call repetition and symptom, and which shift the question of identity because a One, real, is at play in them. Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter is key reading for the study and research of Lacanian psychoanalysis and all practitioners interested in Lacan’s teaching, as well as other discourses such as philosophy, art, literature, and history. |
| Organised By | : | Lacan Forum of London IF-EPFCL |
| Web Link | : | https://my.weezevent.com/colette-soler-towards-identity |