This seminar explores Freud’s concept of the uncanny (das Unheimliche) as an experience in which the familiar, domestic, and everyday suddenly acquire a strange and unsettling quality. Drawing on Freud’s discussion of the double, repetition, the gaze, the doll, and the uncertain boundary between the animate and the inanimate, the...
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...
Penny Georgiou Practising Analyst since 1998 Ongoing research prompted by the aporias of the clinic, the truth of the symptom, insists on speaking through suffering. How can the analyst best work with the subject in navigating and, where possible, in transforming their suffering? Purchase your ticket to attend the event...
What is it about the object that makes anxiety different from ordinary fear? Lacan’s formulation of anxiety in relation to object a opens a path toward understanding the object not simply as something the subject wants to possess, but as something that causes desire and can disturb the subject’s position....
Lacan said that anxiety is not without an object[1], implicitly reminding us of Freud, who, in his essay Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety, although speaking of indefiniteness and lack of object in anxiety, states in the immediately preceding sentence that “it is anxiety about something”.[2] Lacan thus assigns the object of...
Some orienting questions for our theme, Anxiety: What do we understand by the concept of ‘anxiety’? In Freud In Lacan In Lived Experience? Penny Georgiou Practising Analyst since 1998 Ongoing research prompted by the aporias of the clinic, the truth of the symptom, insists on speaking through suffering. How can...
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...
The Cyprus Society of the SFL is hereby inviting you to attend the 2nd Cartel presentation of Study Year 2025/2026. Cartel’s tittle: The names of the Father and the names of desire. Petros Patounas(+1) Cartel Members who will present: Anastasia Eleni Loizou Christina Koukou Maria Filaktou Mira Patouna Misa...
The Cyprus Society of the SFL is hereby inviting you to attend the 1st Cartel presentation of Study Year 2025/2026. June 18th, 2026: Natasa Iacovides(+1) Cartel Members who will present: Angeliki Herodotou Despina Nicou Pavlos Tsiampartas Penny Georgiou (+1) Cartel Members who will present: Natasa Iacovides Michalis Shimitras Further Information...
Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the SFL, will present a seminar on Freud’s and Lacan’s ideas on secondary narcissism along with his own experiences based on his psychoanalytic practice. Patounas believes that the understanding of how this unconscious structure functions in the signifying narrative of each anaysand is crucial for the...