The Act in Psychoanalysis
A Seminar by Véronique Voruz
With
the decline of prohibition as a mechanism of social organization, repression as
a psychical mechanism for the formation of symptoms is on the wane. It follows
that the unconscious is no longer what it used to be. The Freudian unconscious,
the one said to be transferential by Jacques-Alain Miller, i.e. the unconscious
produced by repression and decipherable in analysis using the indications
elaborated in the course of their lives by Freud and Lacan, is no longer a
sufficient hypothesis for psychoanalysis to retain full symbolic efficacy. Thus
Jacques-Miller, in recent years, and starting from Lacan’s passing reference to
the unconscious as real in the “Preface to the English edition of Seminar XI”, is currently engaged in
developing a new hypothesis for the orientation of psychoanalytic practice.
In
the 21st century, Miller suggests, the central concept of
psychoanalytic practice should be the speaking body, theme of the next WAP
Congress. Having first equated the symbolic with that which can be ordered, and
second, the real with disorder, it is the status of the imaginary which is being
overhauled for the concluding Congress in this latest cycle of three.
The
receding status of the transferential unconscious foregrounds the various
registers of the act – for there where formations of the unconscious are fewer,
or no longer cause the supposition of knowledge which Lacan equated with the
opening of the unconscious in Seminar
XI, the manifestations of the effects
of the signifier on the living body tend to borrow alternative circuits for the
discharge of affects. Inhibition, and its corollary, depressive affects, acting
out, passages to the act as the iteration of a primal mark of jouissance, come
to the fore in the contemporary clinic.
Faced
with a clinical landscape traversed by these various modalities of the act, the
act of the analyst is also taking on new significance.
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Hosted by Lacan
Circle of Melbourne (LCM), this two day seminar will be held at the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA), 124 Jolimont Road,
East Melbourne, Victoria 3002. Registration for this event can be made by sending
an email to Noriaki Sato at <noriaki.sato@monash.edu>. Please refer to the fee schedule and available payment methods
below, and please specify in your email your registration type (i.e. rate and
date(s)) and your preferred payment method.
Whilst payment can be made on the day, registration must be made in advance, and no later than Friday the
7th August.
Program
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Saturday the 22nd August
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Sunday the23rd August
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9:30-10:00
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Welcome
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10:00-11:30
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Session 1: Exploring the
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Session 4: Theorizing passages to
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11:30-12:00
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Morning
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Morning
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12:00-13:00
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Session 2: A theory of affects at
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Session 5: A clinical practice
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch
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Lunch
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14:00-16:00
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Session 3: Modalities of the act
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Final discussion
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Fee schedule (including lunch and light
refreshment)
Whole Seminar
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Saturday only
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Sunday only
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General admission
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A$200
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A$120
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A$100
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LCM members
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A$160
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A$100
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A$80
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Student/Concession
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A$120
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A$80
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A$60
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Payment methods
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Electronic transfer
to Lacan Circle of Melbourne: Commonwealth Bank BSB: 063120; Account No:
10158007. Please include your name in the transfer, and "VV Seminar".
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Cheque: Please make
your cheque payable to ‘Lacan Circle of Melbourne’, and pay on the day.
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Cash: Please pay on
the day. Please note that there is no credit card facility at the venue.
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