Clinical Parallel Sessions
Will take place on Saturday 11 May 2024, in the rooms of Dublin Castle, from 2 pm to 5 pm. Some will be in English or French without translation. There will also be a bilingual room with simultaneous translation. Each speaker and participant will choose his or her preferred language.
We invite you to propose a contribution in line with the Congress theme: “Clinic of the Gaze”. It is a theme that invites the analyst or practitioner to take a perspective on a case based on 1) the various instance of seeing that are isolated, 2) what makes a stain in the picture for the subject, 3) the screens on which his or her imaginary constructions are projected and/or that stand in the way of the real. Faced with the diffractions of the scopic drive – to see, to be seen, to make oneself seen – we will seek to highlight the position taken by the subject and the intervention of the analyst or practitioner.
Your contribution will be based on a single clinical case, which will be read by the scientific committee (English-speaking or French-speaking respectively).
Contributions can be sent from today, 3 January, to the following address:
e.koukouli.nls.secretary@gmail.com
Don't wait until the deadline – March 16 – to think about it and write: by then it will be too late!
Please send your texts in the following format:
– 6500 characters including spaces, in Times New Roman font, size 12, with a line spacing of 1.5.
– Before sending, please ensure that your text has been proofread by an English or French-speaking person and strictly formatted according to the above criteria.
– Please include, in the main body of the text: the author's surname, first name, e-mail address and mobile phone number.
– As the subject of the e-mail put: “NLS Congress – Parallel Sessions: NAME FIRST NAME”
Proposed axes of work
We propose seven axes of work to orient your clinical cases for the Parallel sessions in English, French or bilingual (simultaneous translation):
1. Moments of seeing: thunderbolts – blows of fate – insights
2. Captivating effects: the body – the mirror – the fetish
3. The appeal of the gaze: Where am I seen from? By whom? Between the Ideal and the Superego
4. Through the window of fantasy: voyeurism/exhibitionism – porn addiction
5. The stain: the uncanny – shame – unworthiness
6. “Wandering gazes”: these objects (a) that go everywhere, all alone and always ready to grab you at the first turn…
7. The resources of artifice: veils, modesty, finery, beauty…
