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. The seminar will examine the strange status of this object: something that is not easily represented, possessed, or lost, yet which can suddenly appear in the experience of anxiety. Clinical situations, relationships, bodily experiences, and apparently ordinary encounters will be used to explore how anxiety can arise when the subject comes too close to what, without knowing it, causes their desire.

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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