The subject’s relation to the Other is structured by a fundamental question: What does the Other want from me? Ordinarily, the lack in the Other gives the subject a space in which desire can emerge. Anxiety can appear when this lack becomes uncertain or when the subject encounters the possibility that there is no reassuring distance between themselves and the desire of the Other. This seminar will explore the relation between anxiety, castration, and the desire of the Other, asking what happens when the subject can no longer rely on the Other’s lack to maintain their own position. Clinical examples will illustrate how questions of love, recognition, demand, sexuality, and dependence can bring this anxiety to the foreground.

Petros Patounas is a psychoanalyst and a founding member of the School of the Freudian Letter, where he participates in the ongoing work of psychoanalytic formation, transmission, seminars, Cartels, and clinical inquiry. His work is situated within the Freudian and Lacanian orientation of psychoanalysis, with particular attention to the questions of desire, the analytic Act, the Breath, the Alien, the Verbeing, and the position of the analyst. In his teaching and presentations, he approaches psychoanalytic concepts not simply as theoretical material but as questions that emerge from clinical practice and from the subject’s encounter with what cannot be fully known or mastered. His seminars seek to maintain a close relation between the conceptual developments of Freud and Lacan and the concrete experience of analytic work, encouraging participants to question, articulate, and work through the problems that psychoanalysis continues to pose.

Participation Fee: €50
School Members: €15

Purchase your ticket to attend the event through the link below.

Participation Fee: €50
School Members: €15

Purchase your ticket to attend the event through the link below.

https://www.ilppd.com/shop/p/anxiety-before-the-lack-in-the-other

For further information, please feel free to contact:

Anastasia
Secretary of the School of the Freudian Letter
Tel:99288776

For further information, please feel free to contact:

Anastasia
Secretary of the School of the Freudian Letter
Tel:99288776