Anxiety emerges at the point where desire approaches too closely, where the distance that ordinarily separates the subject from the object of desire becomes unstable. Rather than understanding anxiety simply as fear or as something to be eliminated, this seminar will explore anxiety as a signal that something has changed in the subject’s relation to desire. Through clinical and everyday examples, we will consider what happens when the subject suddenly encounters something of their own desire that they can no longer keep at a safe distance. The seminar will introduce the Lacanian proposition that anxiety is not without an object and examine why desire, when it comes too close, can become profoundly unsettling.

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

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Secretary of the School of the Freudian Letter
Tel:99288776