7th CLINICAL STUDY DAYS
ARGUMENT
NEW YORK
Lecture by Miquel BASSOLS,
Psychoanalyst, incoming President of the World Association of Psychoanalysis
PSYCHOANALYSIS, SCIENCE AND THE REAL
Friday, February 14, 2014 / 8 pm
Barnard College, 304 Barnard Hall (the Held Auditorium, 3rd floor)
(Barnard Hall is right after the college’s Main Gate entrance on Brodway at 117th Street).
Admission free / For further information : lcoolidge@barnard.edu
2014
WAP weaves
Vigano /
up! Are available on the Congress website: www.congresamp2014.com and you
may join
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11 January 2014
2.00
– 4.30 pm (ULU, Malet St.)
NLS – Knottings
Seminar
WHAT
CANNOT BE SAID: Desire, Fantasy, Real
On the real
in contemporary practice
This
event showcases the work of the members of the New Lacanian
School around the theme of the forthcoming NLS-Congress in
Ghent, Belgium 17-18 May 2014 – What Cannot Be Said. The
objects of enjoyment in what cannot be said escape the
narrative, but make themselves felt in bungled acts, in
forgetting, in symptoms or as anxiety. The Lacanian practice is
oriented towards the real in these phenomena, and towards
separating the meaning effect from meaning.
Chair:
Natalie Wulfing (NLS, UK)
With
Nathalie Laceur (NLS, Belgium)
member of the NLS Executive Committee
And Veronique Voruz (NLS, UK); Susana Huler (NLS,
Israel); Mikael Strakhov (NLS, Russia)
15 February 2014
2.00
– 5.00 pm
(ULU, Malet St.):
NLS-Seminar “What
Cannot Be Said”
On
the theme of Desire, Fantasy and Real in
the 21st century
with
Jean-Louis Gault (ECF, France),
Analyst Member of the School
WHERE TO STAY AND HOW TO
GET AROUND?
Ghent is a
very popular city for tourism and the Tourist Information Office tells us that hotel bookings for the Spring 2014 must be
made quickly.
The offer
of hotels and B&Bs is large and varied. Most hotels are located in the
historic centre.
The
conversation of members, the Congress and the festivities will all take place at
the same venue: Kunstencentrum Vooruit,
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23, 9000 Ghent (see localisation on Google Maps).
This beautiful place is easily accessible from the historic
centre. On foot, it will take you between 10 and 25 minutes. Otherwise,
you may take a bus, tram or a taxi to ‘ZUID’. The ‘ZUID’ is one of the main hubs
for taxis and public transport, and is only a few minutes’ walk from the VOORUIT.
Please find
below a list of hotels. On the website of the city of Ghent town you will find
a larger list:
English:
http://www.visitgent.be/en/accommodation
French:
http://www.visitgent.be/fr/dormir
Dutch:
http://www.visitgent.be/nl/slapen
Inexpensive
rooms
13
O’CLOCK
Universiteitstraat
13, 9000 Ghent
Less than 10
minutes’ walk
HOSTEL: JEUGDHERBERG DE DRAECKE
Sint-Widostraat
11, 9000 Ghent
Note: People
over 26 are welcome
15 minutes
by Tram ( ram 4, 24 or 1: 10 minutes +
5 minutes’ walk)
20 minutes’
walk
HOSTEL UPPELINK
Sint-Michielsplein
21, 9000 Ghent
http://www.hosteluppelink.com/en/ligging
12 minutes
by bus (1 minute walk + Bus 3 : 5 minutes + 6 minutes’ walk)
15 minutes’
walk
Average prices
PARKHOTEL
Nieuwebosstraat
1, 9000 Ghent
http://www.parkhotelgent.be/fr
Less than
10 minutes’ walk
IBIS CENTRUM
GENT OPERA
Nederkouter
24 -26, 9000 Ghent
http://www.accorhotels.com/fr/hotel-1455-ibis-gent-centrum-opera/index.shtml#
5 minutes’
walk
IBIS CENTRUM
GENT KATHEDRAAL
Limburgstraat
2, 9000 Ghent
http://www.accorhotels.com/gb/hotel-0961-ibis-gent-centrum-st-baafs-kathedraal/index.shtml
Less than
10 minutes’ walk
NOVOTEL GENT CENTRUM
Goudenleeuwplein
5, 9000 Ghent
Less than
10 minutes’ walk
BEST WESTERN
HOTEL COUR SAINT-GEORGES
Hoogpoort
75, 9000 Ghent
15 minutes’
walk
NH GENT
BELFORT
Hoogpoort
63, 9000 Ghent
11 minutes
by bus (3 minutes’ walk + Bus 5: 5 minutes + 1 minute walk)
15’ à pied
HOTEL
GRAVENSTEEN
Jan
Breydelstraat 35, 9000 Ghent
12 minutes
by Tram (7 minutes’ walk + Tram 1: 5 minutes)
20 minutes’
walk
HOTEL
CATHEDRAL
Sint-
Jacobsnieuwstraat 87, 9000 Ghent
10 minutes
by bus (3 minutes’ walk +Bus 5: 6 minutes +1 minute walk)
15 minutes’
walk
HOTEL
CASTELNOU
Kasteellaan
51, 9000 Ghent
15 minutes’
walk
7 minutes
by bus (1 minute walk + 5 minutes by bus 6 + 1 minute walk)
Stylish Hotels –
Bed and breakfast
FEELGOOD
HOTEL
Vlaanderenstraat
82, 9000, Ghent
http://www.bedandbreakfast.eu/chambre-d-hote/gand/feelgood-hotel/172104/
5 minutes’
walk
B&B BOOKS
Sint –
Pietersnieuwstraat 202, 9000 Ghent
http://www.letsbookhotel.com/nl/belgium/gent/hotel/bb-books.aspx
Two steps
from the Vooruit
LA DUCALE
Vlaanderenstraat
54, 9000 Ghent
5 minutes’
walk
CASA BORSALINO
Vlaanderenstraat
44, 9000 Ghent
5 minutes’
walk
B&B DE
BIJLOKE
Nederkouter
134, 9000 Ghent
5 minutes’
walk
B&B
LOGIDENRI
Brabantdam
201, 9000 Ghent
5 minutes’
walk
Higher prices
GHENT MARIOTT
HOTEL
Korenlei
10, 9000 Ghent
14 by bus
(5 minutes’ walk + Bus 3: + walk)
15 minutes’
walk
HOTEL DE
FLANDRE
Poel 1-2,
9000 Ghent
12 minutes
by bus (walk + Bus 3: 5 minutes + walk)
20 minutes’
walk
GHENT RIVER
HOTEL
Waaistraat
5, 9000 Ghent
12 minutes
by bus (2 minutes’ walk + Bus 58: 5 minutes + 5 minutes’ walk)
20 minutes’
walk
HARMONY
Kraanlei
37, 9000 Ghent
13 by Tram
( 2 minutes’ walk + Tram 4: 7 minutes + 5 minutes’ walk)
20 minutes’
walk
SANDTON GRAND
HOTEL REYLOF
Hoogstraat
36, 9000 Ghent
12 minutes
by bus (walk + Bus 6: 6 minutes + walk)
20 minutes’
walk
Action Committee of the School One
Edition
Dessal
Gabriela Basz
Anxiety
in times of transparency. How to get rid of the absolute gaze? – Rosa
López
The real and a real: the non-existence of the sexual relation
and the sinthome- Simone Souto
(Attached)
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7th
CLINICAL STUDY DAYS
February 14-16, 2014
New York City
Paradoxes of
Transference
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Seventh Clinical Study Days are to be hosted in New
York City in February
14-16, 2014, with the participation of Miquel Bassols,
Psychoanalyst, AME,
member of the WAP and the ELP. Future President of the World
Association of
Psychoanalysis and with the special participation of
Pierre-Gilles Gueguen,
Psychoanalyst, Delegate of the World Association of
Psychoanalysis for the USA.
The
theme of the meeting is “Paradoxes of Transference”.
Argument:
Freud was the first to reveal the
paradoxes of
transference in the analytic setting, saying that it was at the
same time the
motor and the obstacle of the treatment.
Lacan developed further the concept of
transference,
making it a cornerstone of his School and the Pass procedure.
He
considered that Transference is related to the Unconscious and
to Knowledge.
He invented a new name for it: The Subject Supposed to Know.
Transference concerns a knowledge that doesn’t belong to either
of the partners
of the analytic setting, either the analyst nor the analysand,
but rather a
knowledge that is supposed, that is of the unconscious and that
is produced, or
not, at each encounter.
Transference is one of what Lacan called
the Four
Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis; it is not possible to
conceive psychoanalytic treatment without transference.
We can say that, in a certain way, the
concept of
Transference transcends the different theoretical registers.
From the Imaginary—all the aspects of
transference-love—to the Symbolic—the relation to the
signifiers— to
transference in the Real: how are today’s clinicians dealing
with transference?
This is especially important to review
now, for
transference today seems more and more linked to “virtual” space
and time —to
the time and space of the internet— and requires more than ever
the “real
presence of the analyst” that Lacan referred to in “The
Direction of the
Treatment.”
How can we support that “real presence”
in the era of
protocols and a praxis that tends ever more to do without
speech?
There are inherent paradoxes to the space
of
transference: how “to call from the inside” to open the door of
the
unconscious, according to Lacan in “Position of the
Unconscious.”
With regard to the contemporary symptoms, the clinical
phenomena that we
are presented with today: are they more close to the locus of
the Other,
more autistic regarding transference?
There are paradoxes in the time of
transference: how to
open and develop the transference of the necessary ”time to
know,” including
also the shortness or extension of treatment today that can be
studied from the
“theory of cycles” that Jacques-Alain Miller introduced some
years ago in
relation to the CPCT clinic.
These
and other questions will be addressed during the CSD7.
The Scientific Committee of the CSD7 invites you to present a
paper at
this meeting. We are soliciting two types of papers.
The first is clinical case presentations, where the
theme of the Study
Days “Paradoxes of Transference” should be addressed. Papers
should be both at
most 20 minutes long when read aloud and at most 15.000
characters with spaces
in length.
The second is papers that address this theme from a
cultural or
societal perspective, or treat the theme from a theoretical
perspective. They
will be part a round table. Papers in this category should be
both at most 10
minutes long when read aloud and at most 7.5000 characters with
spaces in
length.
Please send your texts to the CSD7 Scientific Committee
at maria.cristinaaguirre@gmail.com.
Papers should be submitted not later than January 6th, 2014. We
appreciate your
interest and collaboration on the Clinical Study Days, and we
are looking forward
to receiving your papers and to seeing you in New York City.
Scientific
Committee:
Pierre-Gilles
Gueguen
Maria
Cristina Aguirre
Juan
Felipe Arango
Fernando
Schutt
Tom
Svolos
Karina
Tenenbaum
nº 1
Action Committee of the School One
Edition
Editorial, Laure Naveau
A reale, a trauma, Paola
Bolgiani
Adiccts, Gustavo Dessal
A real for the Geek era, Florencia
Fernández Coria Shanahan
Science and the real, Mercedes
Iglesias
Of a desire to touch the real, Ram Avraham
Mandil
Love and the real, Laure
Naveau
Linking the real, Silvia Salman
(Attached)
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HOW TO GET TO GHENT?
To get to Ghent you can either take a plane and then a train, or the high-speed train and then a train.
IF YOU TRAVEL BY PLANE
You can book a flight to Brussels National Airport ( Zaventem; Belgium) or to Lille Lesquin (France). Then take the train.
1. Arrival at Brussels National Airport: The train station is located at the airport.
To check train times and buy your tickets: http://www.belgianrail.be/jp/sncb-nmbs-routeplanner/query.exe/en
When filling in the form, choose «Brussels Airport» as departure station and « Gand Saint-Pierre » as arrival station.
To Ghent: the trip takes about an hour.
- There is a direct train every hour. Departure from airport at xx:51 – Arrival at Ghent at xx.44.
- There is an indirect train with transfer at Bruxelles Midi station. Departure from airport at xx:36 – Arrival at Gand Saint-Pierre xx:35
Return: There is no direct train Gand Saint-Pierre – Brussels National airport at the weekend. It is necessary therefore to change trains at Bruxelles-Midi station. There are two trains per hour and the journey takes at least an hour.
- Departure from Gand Saint-Pierre xx:04 – Arrival at Brussels National airport xx:10
- Departure from Gand Saint-Pierre xx:25 – Arrival at Brussels National airport xx:31
2. Arrival at Lille Lesquin : There is no train station at the airport
At the airport, take a bus that brings you near Lille Flandres station. Get off at Euralille shopping centre, 5 minutes from Lille Flandres station. The bus trip takes 20 minutes.
At Lille Flandres station, take the train to Gand Saint-Pierre station. The trip takes just over an hour.
To check train times and to buy your tickets: http://www.voyages-sncf.com/
When filling in the form choose: Lille Flandres as departure station and Gand Saint-Pierre as arrival station.
To Ghent: the trip takes just over an hour. Departure from Lille Flandres: xx:08 – Arrival at Gand Saint-Pierre: xx :14
Return: the trip takes just over an hour. Departure from Gand Saint-Pierre: xx :46 – Arrival at Lille Flandres: xx:50
IF YOU TAKE THE HIGH-SPEED TRAIN
1. Thalys www.thalys.com
There are only a few direct Paris-Ghent Thalys daily. The times depend on the day of the week.
Coming from Paris, Cologne or Amsterdam you can take the Thalys to Brussels. These Thalys stops at Bruxelles-Midi station.
From Bruxelles-Midi station, take the train to Gand Saint-Pierre. This trip takes about half an hour.
To check train times and buy your tickets: http://www.belgianrail.be/jp/sncb-nmbs-routeplanner/query.exe/en
2. TGV www.tgv.com
You can take the TGV that stops in Lille. Depending on the time, you will arrive at Lille Europe station or at Lille Flandres station.
All trains towards Ghent depart from Lille Flandres station (which is 5 minutes’ walk from Lille Europe station).
There is a train stopping at Gand Saint-Pierre station every hour. This trip takes just over an hour.
To check train times and buy your tickets: http://www.voyages-sncf.com/
When filling in the form choose: “Lille Flandres” as departure station and “Gand Saint-Pierre” as arrival station.
To Ghent: Departure from Lille Flandres: xx:08 – Arrival at Gand Saint-Pierre: xx :14
Return: Departure from Gand Saint-Pierre: xx :46 – Arrival at Lille Flandres: xx:50
3. Eurostar www.eurostar.com
The Eurostar from London stops at Bruxelles-Midi station.
From Bruxelles-Midi station, take a train to Gand Saint-Pierre. This trip takes about half an hour.
To check train times and buy your tickets: http://www.belgianrail.be/jp/sncb-nmbs-routeplanner/query.exe/en
9 November 2013
On
Saturday 9 November 2013 ICLO-NLS held an open seminar on the theme
‘Mother … Mother … Mothers’, structured as a dialogue between literature
and psychoanalysis.
In
opening the event Florencia Shanahan, Chair of ICLO-NLS, referred to
Freud and Lacan and how they both recognised that the artist was
‘ahead’, in touch with the beyond of speech and its effect on human
subjectivity. Florencia envisaged the seminar as not a scholastic
exercise but more as an attempt to create something new, which is what
art is about.
Writer
and broadcaster, Niall McMonagle, delivered a wide-ranging and
inspiring talk entitled ‘Her Voided Lap, Her Clapping Hand’ in which he
read many poems on the theme of motherhood and reflected on how these
various writers approached and presented the mother. Niall
also led us into the visual realm presenting, in particular, a painting
by Alice Maher showing a girl peeping out from the top of a woman’s
dress. The poetry was wide-ranging and rich, ranging through Evan Boland, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath and many others. Though
the actual volume of material presented was impressive in itself, many
of us there were moved by the Niall’s actual readings of the poems, and
this was reflected in the comments after the talk. All manner of mothers were summoned up and brought to life by Niall and the scene was well set for an engagement with them.
Alan Rowan’s paper then looked at the question ‘What is a Mother?’ tracing the topic from Freud to Lacan. Alan
presented Freud’s conceptualization of the mother (in The Project) as
the one who gives meaning to the cry of the child thus helping the child
to achieve symbolic identity, along with Freud’s penis envy theory
which ultimately posits motherhood as that state which fulfils every
psychical need for a woman. Because
Lacan situated the mother-child relationship in the Symbolic he
emphasised the dialectic of desire between Mother and child and,
critically, that within this dialectic the baby is recognised as a
desiring subject. The
paper elaborated the necessity for the mother to desire something
beyond the child and for the child to experience the mother as lacking
in order to be able to use her as a cause of its own desire.
Claire Hawkes then presented a paper on working clinically with mothers with a diagnosis of post natal depression. Claire
made very clear the connection between the ‘care’ that baby receives
and the field of language, (both symbolic and material), in which it is
situated. Psychoanalytic therapy with the mother allows her to situate herself, her partner and the baby within the symbolic order. The
paper ended with a vignette from the work of C. Mathelin where the
analyst speaks directly to a distressed three month old baby, working
within the materiality of language to present the baby with an
alternative path, which allowed her calm down and sleep.
Linda
Clarke’s paper ‘Mother Ireland … The Myth’ traced the traditional
personification of Ireland as woman and mother noting how the
identification of ‘the land’ as female reinforced the view of woman as
passive and something to be possessed rather than as a speaking subject. The conflation of ‘woman’ and ‘mother’ continued in the 1937 Irish Constitution. However,
as Linda’s paper described, women who became mothers outside of the
strict Catholic and social norms were treated harshly and frequently
denied their rights, their babies and a voice. The paper concluded with the present day example of the untimely death in hospital of Savita Halappanavar and her child; perhaps her husband, Praveen’s, desire
for truth is helping us to move from the experience of Mother as object
and allowing the singular, subjective mother to emerge.
The
second part of the day began with a talk from poet and novelist, Mary
O’Donnell, entitled ‘Mothering and Daughtering: Cryptic, Complex,
Simple’. Using
the Demeter-Persephone relationship (and a beautiful and witty poem of
her own woven around this motif) Mary reflected on both the powerful
impact of giving birth and the transformative nature of a co-operative
mother-daughter relationship. The emergence of the grandmother evokes the ‘daughtering’, where the mother is no longer the giver of care. Mary’s poem ‘Mother, I am Crying’ presented the theme powerfully. Other aspects of mother were also explored including the crone and the relationship with food (from nurture to eating disorder). Mary ended with a poem she wrote from a desire to console. ‘Return to Clay’ finishes:
Lean in close, feel the strong arms
of old clay – powdered, heavy,
wet, wormed – feel
what knew your nature
before you knew yourself.
Florencia
Shanahan spoke of ‘Things to be Born(e)’, the homophony evoking the
unconscious and the impossibility of being at one with one says or means
or is. Acknowledging
the Freudian notion of the baby as the way in which the mother may
access the phallus the paper shows how Lacan (and Miller) went beyond
this by pointing out how the child divides maternal subject between her
being of mother and her being of woman. This
division is crucial for if the child is to inscribe himself in
language, the mother, through her relationship with lack must find the
signifier of desire elsewhere. Poetry
is invoked as one of the ways in which words can be used by us (each a
divided subject) to border the unbearable and, paradoxically, there
perhaps ask ‘who am I?’.
Joanne
Conway’s paper ‘Leave Her to Heaven’ focussed on a particular aspect of
Lacan’s use of ‘Hamlet’ in the 1958-59 Seminar ‘Desire and Its
Interpretation’. The
entry into language for the child, while necessary in order for it to
find a place in the world, entails a loss of the mother as a source of
enjoyment and pleasure. This becoming a mere effect of language and its consequences for the articulation of desire sets up the To be or not … Joanne’s
paper explored the implications for Hamlet of both his father’s death
and Hamlet’s rejection of his own object, Ophelia – leaving Hamlet to
confront the desire of the mother.
The
final discussion, chaired by Medb Ruane, included contributions from
the artist Jacqueline Nicholson, whose painting ‘Mourning and
Melancholia’ was used as a poster for the seminar and was exhibited in
the seminar room. The
discussion also touched on Lacanian work with babies, the implications
for fathers and the Name of the Father, the ‘Irish Mammy’ and the
variety of family and parenting structures now in existence. We ended somehow well fed yet hungry for more.
Tom Ryan (ICLO)