On Saturday 14th of May, Dr Elena Loizou, psychoanalyst in formation and special scientist at the University of Cyprus, will deliver a seminar on the topic: ‘The concept of Drive in Freud and Lacan’. Description: In this study, I will present two texts of Freud and one of Lacan on...
- May2022
The concept of Drive in Freud and Lacan
May 11, 2022
- Apr2022
From ‘ego’ to ‘eco’
April 22, 2022
The Cyprus Society of the SFL (School of the Freudian Letter) hosts a series of seminars where subjects from diverse backgrounds and different countries will speak about “what they love doing for living.” They have been chosen on the merits of having the abilities to facilitate the appetite for creation...
- Mar2022
Divine Drive
March 13, 2022
On Friday 18th of March, Charoula Pilavaki, Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation with the SFL, will deliver a seminar on the topic: ‘Divine Drive’. Description: About a year ago, I had the chance to interview the lacanian psychoanalyst Petros Patounas on “That which is Feminine”. Among other innovative ideas, words and...
- Feb2022
The Richard Klein Scholarship scheme
February 19, 2022
The School of the Freudian Letter announces the Richard Klein Scholarships, in memory of the psychoanalyst himself who had passed away in December 2021. The SFL acknowledges his legacy and his work importance for psychoanalysts, as well as his wish for subjects to receive psychoanalytic formation in a style supporting their...
Responding to a Manic Episode in Bipolar Disorder
February 3, 2022
On Saturday 26th of February, Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will respond to the process of a psychiatric interview of a psychotic subject that experiences a manic episode according to the psychiatrist treating it. The ‘responses’ series aim in enabling the question “What can psychiatry...
Responding to a Process of a Psychiatric Interview
February 3, 2022
On Saturday 12th of February, Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will respond to the process of a psychiatric interview of a psychotic subject that experiences a manic episode according to the psychiatrist treating it. The ‘responses’ series aim in enabling the question “What can psychiatry...
- Jan2022
What is psychoanalysis?
January 30, 2022
On Wednesday 9th of February, Mirjana Patouna, Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation with the SFL, will deliver a seminar on the topic: ‘What is psychoanalysis’? The seminar elaborates and explores the latter question having as a central reference point Freud’s infamous essay ‘Wild Psycho-Analysis’. Since psychoanalysis is subjective in its ways,...
The Image of α Voice: The Mirror Stage of Jacques Lacan
January 8, 2022
It has been since forever that man as a speaking subject has used metaphors to describe the world. Jacques Lacan is the first to bring this fact into a psychoanalytic context, noting that this very metaphorization draws reference from another metaphor that is primordial, where the individual takes his mirror...
A vocation is soul’s vacation
January 4, 2022
The Cyprus Society of the SFL (School of the Freudian Letter) hosts a series of seminars where subjects from Cyprus will speak about “what they love doing for living.” They have been chosen on the merits of having the abilities to facilitate the appetite for creation to others, to transmit...
- Dec2021
The Analysis of a Psychotic Subject
December 26, 2021
On Saturday the 29th of January 2022, Lacanian Psychoanalyst Petros Patounas, will be presenting the seminar with the title “The Analysis of a Psychotic Subject”. In this seminar Patounas will respond to the testimony of a female subject. In his formulation for this case, Patounas argues that the subjective structure...