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Workshop Series 2023-24
Under the direction of Jacques-Alain Miller
An Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Based on Freud’s Introductory Lectures On Psychoanalysis
(1915-17) with additional references from Lacan’s Teaching
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New Lacanian School
From an Other to the other, Book XVI
Jacques Lacan
Translated by Bruce Fink
Presentation by J.-A. Miller
Sollers once wrote that, to him, Claudel was first and
foremost the man who wrote, “Paradise is around us at this very moment, all its
forests attentive like a great orchestra that invisibly adores and implores.
The whole invention of the Universe with its notes falling vertiginously one by
one into the abyss where the wonders of our dimensions are written.”
Well, Lacan is, to me, the one who says in this Seminar, “We are all
familiar with hell, it is everyday life.”
Is that the same thing? No, I don't think so. Here there is no adoration,
no invisible orchestra, no vertigo or wonders. Let us begin by the end: Lacan
“evacuated” from the rue d’Ulm along with his audience, not without resistance
or an uproar. The episode was in all the papers. What had he done to deserve
such a fate? He had spoken not only to psychoanalysts, but also to young people
who were still fired up by the events of May 1968, who nevertheless accepted
him as a master of discourse at the same time as they dreamt of subverting the
university system. What did he tell them? That “Revolution” means returning to
the same place. That knowledge now imposes its law on power and has become
uncontrollable. That thought is censorship itself. He spoke to them about Marx,
but also about Pascal's wager—which became in his hands a new version of the
master/slave dialectic—not to mention the foundations of set theory. He moved
on to a discussion of perversion, and models of hysteria and obsession. All of
that is connected, scintillates, and captivates.
Between the lines, the dialogue between Lacan and himself continues
regarding the subject of jouissance and the relationship between jouissance and
speech and language.
Pre-order via the site of Polity: click here
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This book presents a Lacanian perspective on the
understanding and treatment of anorexia, supported by case material, research
and theoretical insight from the author’s 25 years of clinical practice.
Domenico Cosenza explains how anorexia constitutes a challenge for contemporary
psychoanalytic clinicians, assesses previous theoretical understandings and
examines clinical contributions from other schools of psychoanalysis. Cosenza
argues that anorexia cannot be treated by following a classical psychoanalytic
path, and here draws on numerous clinical cases to articulate a Lacanian
approach which addresses core concerns not resolved elsewhere. Elaborating on
Lacanian concepts including refusal and the object nothing, Cosenza offers a
new approach for all psychoanalytically-informed clinicians working with
anorexia.
A Lacanian Reading of Anorexia will be of great interest to
psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists
interested in Lacanian perspectives and the dynamic-analytical approach in the
treatment of anorexia.
Reviews and Endorsements
In
this highly significant book Domenico Cosenza shows us refusal may be torned
into a way forward. Through his remarkable insights, he shows us how it is
paradoxically in the impasse that it presents that a solution to anorexia may
be found.
Prof. François Ansermet, psychoanalyst, member of the WAP, Emeritus
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Universities of Geneva and
Lausanne
Domenico Cosenza incisively surveys the full spectrum of literature of anorexia
– psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, Lacan, and the contemporary
Lacanian Orientation and draws on his own clinical experience in many settings,
and those of colleagues, to provide the clinician a much-needed framework for
working with patients with anorexia. That alone makes this book a must-buy, but
Cosenza also highlights how the study of anorexia, alongside other eating
disorders and addiction, is necessary in reforging a clinic for today’s
civilisation.
Thomas Svolos, MD, New Lacanian School and Creighton University School of
Medicine
For sale via the website of Karnac, Amazon or Routledge.
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