Anxiety can emerge not only because something is missing, but because the lack that normally structures desire appears to disappear. When the Other seems to have no lack, no uncertainty, no distance, or no place for the subject’s desire, the subject can find themselves confronted with an unsettling question: What am I for the Other? This seminar will explore Lacan’s account of anxiety in relation to the desire of the Other and the disappearance of the reassuring gap through which desire is normally sustained. Experiences of excessive attention, demanding love, intrusive relationships, certainty, and the feeling of being completely seen will provide clinical and everyday points of departure. The seminar will ask why what appears to be the fulfilment of desire can itself become a source of anxiety.

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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Anastasia
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