How do we supervise Lacanianly?

On Friday 21st of October, Petros Patounas will present the seminar “How do we supervise Lacanianly?” During the presentation the speaker will touch upon key issues in Freudian and Lacanian supervision, such the psychoanalyst’s own fantasy of a body, the analysand as phallus, what material might be important to present...

Continue reading

Dream analysis in Lacanian psychoanalysis

On Wednesday 5th of October Mihailo Maksimovic, member of the Serbian Society of the SFL, will deliver a seminar entitled: ‘Dream analysis in Lacanian psychoanalysis’. This seminar deals with the exploration of what dreams are, what is their work and function, what is the process of their analysis according to...

Continue reading

Catatonia: from sound to the voice

On Wednesday 6th of July, Marinos Maliali Lacanian psychoanalyst, will deliver a case study entitled: ‘Catatonia: from sound to the voice’. This is an insightful case study presentation on the preliminary stage of Analysis aiming at facilitating the space for structuring the analysand’s voice. The title of this case study...

Continue reading

On the formation of analysts: from the subject to the verb

On Wednesday 29th of June, Marinos Maliali, Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation with the SFL, will deliver a seminar on the topic: ‘On the formation of analysts: from the subject to the verb’ and it is based on the article ‘On the Verbification of the Subject of the Unconscious‘ from the book ‘On...

Continue reading

Actum est Litteralis

Le titre ne fait pas référence à n’importe quel acte : Cet Acte est un Acte littéral. La caractérisation semble paradoxale car le sens littéral ne peut que concerner les figures de style dans le discours, comme la métaphore et la métonymie. Comment se fait-il qu’un acte puisse être littéral...

Continue reading

On the Ascesis of Psychoanalysts

This book is a gospel on the subject of the ethics of the well-spoken, that is the speaking being of the Αct. An ori-entation for the analyst to a kinesis of flowing with the flux of the letter, where the subject’s mark within the signifier instead of being counted in...

Continue reading

An Act of Good Faith: the Duty to Become a Heretic

This book is a collection of essays on Lacanian and Freudian Psychoanalysis, edited by Marinos Malialis and written by Richard Klein, the first president of the School of the Freudian Letter. The book is a union between Freud and Lacan, a point of orientation for psychoanalysts, and a reference for...

Continue reading

Breath: the Object of the Respiratory Drive

The Breath sustains the Act in a new body, the No-Body which you are able to construct if you are willing to die and reborn away from the Other, into a new resurrected body that does not speak. It is Being Silent. Thus, Psychoanalysis is a breathing exercise going beyond...

Continue reading

The Clinic of the Act by Petros Patounas

Petros Patounas infuses his words with the experience of his practice and makes another contribution to psychoanalysis. He transforms this interview into an orientation that urges psychoanalysts to surpass a threshold and lead themselves into another sort of practice that is not limited to the couch, but that it constitutes...

Continue reading