SFL Cartel Presentation (1) of Study Year 2021/2022

The Cyprus Society of the SFL is hereby inviting you to attend the 1st Cartel presentation of Study Year 2021/2022. June 1st, 2022: Petros Patounas (+1) Cartel Members who will present: -Marina Pafitou -Marinos Mallialis -Virginia Papadouri Further Information The presentation will last approximately 1:30 hours. Time: 8:00pm – 9:30pm Cyprus...

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Case study: The enigma of how to be a man

On Thursday, on the 26th of May, Mirjana Patouna, psychoanalyst of the SFL, will be presenting the seminar with the title, “The enigma of how to be a man” This seminar is about a man who tries to answer these crusial questions for life, related to an even bigger question:...

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The concept of Drive in Freud and Lacan

On Saturday 14th of May, Dr Elena Loizou, 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 the subject of drive....

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From ‘ego’ to ‘eco’

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...

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Divine Drive

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...

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Cartel year 2021-2022

Cartel theme is: Reading Freud’s desire with Lacan. A summary: Moustapha Safouan was a student of Jacques Lacan, whose teaching led him to resolve the contradictions he encountered in his reading of Freud. In his book Four Lessons of Psychoanalysis, by explaining the resolution of those contradictions he outlines his...

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Responding to a Manic Episode in Bipolar Disorder

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...

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Responding to a Process of a Psychiatric Interview

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. The ‘Responses’ series aim in enabling the question “What can psychiatry learn from psychoanalysis?” It is Patounas’ view, that not only the...

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Mirjana Patouna

What is psychoanalysis?

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,...

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A vocation is soul’s vacation

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...

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