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The School of the Freudian Letter UK presents

Dr. Llewellyn Brown

BREATH – «a token of life»

Summary

The question of breath appears as problematic, since it is both irreducibly anchored in the body, and escapes the imaginary register, the latter including within its sphere conceptual language, the signifier, and the body reduced to a specular whole. As such, it touches on the real, a part that cannot be caught up within subjectivity. It is anchored in the primordial inscription of the speaking being in language, in the unbearable anguish of the spasm prior to lalangue. Through various passages of the works of Samuel Beckett, it will be seen as untamable, and ex-sisting from words. As foreign to identification, it none the less infuses words with life, engendering a radical and vivifying disharmony, and offering an indispensable liberation from the stifling specular body.

About the speaker

Dr. Llewellyn Brown teaches at the Lycée international de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He is an author of monographs on twentieth-century French writers. Among his latest publications: Beckett, Lacan and the Voice (2016), Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze (2019), Marguerite Duras : écrire et détruire, un paradoxe de la création (2018), and Samuel Beckett et l’écriture des ruines, de “Mercier et Camier” à “Soubresauts” (2021). He is a member of the editorial board of publisher Lettres modernes – Minard (Paris), and edits the “Samuel Beckett” series of the journal La Revue des Lettres modernes.

Further information

Fees: Free

Language: English

Date and time: 27.02.2021, from 6:30pm - 8pm GMT

The seminar will be delivered online via Zoom application. To register and receive the webinar link and password please send your request to the email below.

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Event Details 

On 23rd of January 2021 Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will present a seminar entitled 'How did Freud practice? Moses and monotheism'. 

With this talk Patounas continues his ongoing dialogue under the general theme ‘On the Ousia of the Dark Matter of Lung-uage’.

Further information

Fees: GBP 10

Language: English

Date and time: 23.01.2021, from 6:30pm - 8pm

The seminar will be delivered online via Zoom application. You can book your ticket via Eventbrite here. 

After booking a ticket you will receive an email from Eventbrite with the link to the webinar. Please note to access the webinar you will have to register with Eventbrite and be logged in with your account. 

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 Event Details 

On 29th of December 2020 Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will present a seminar entitled A few remarks on the 'Future of an Illusion', “Science” and Psychoanalysis.

Summary

In this online seminar Petros Patounas will respond to Freud’s work ‘The Future of an Illusion’, and the operation of Science around the ‘mind’ in professions/occupations such as psychology and psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.

P. Patounas will touch upon the following, amongst other, themes:

- The notion of false belief systems and its place in religion, psychology and psychoanalysis.

- Transmission of beliefs and imitation: cloning.

- ‘Forbidden questions’ in religion, psychology and psychoanalysis.

- The ‘necessity’ of a longing to attach to the father.

- The structure of psychoanalysis - is it an illusion?

- The clinic of the Act.

- Freud’s views on human nature: anti-social and destructive?

- The place of psychoanalysis between destruction and illusion.

Further information

Fees: GBP 10

Language: English

Date and time: 29.12.2020, from 6:30pm - 8pm

The seminar will be delivered online via Zoom application. You can book your ticket via Eventbrite here. After booking a ticket you will receive the webinar link and password via email.

Contact: Nadia Molodkina, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Event Details 

On 28th of November 2020 Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will present a seminar entitled End of analysis: the Cause of the No-Body. 

Summary

What is the end of one’s analysis and how the body and the experience of the world change? What is the place of the object a in the subject who has been analyzed? How desire manifests? What is the place of symptoms in the end of analysis?

P. Patounas will be responding to these questions and will touch upon the following, amongst other, themes:

- The Other and the end of analysis.
- The body and the world. 
- Ways of ending analysis: the Symptom, the Sinthome, and the Act.
- The experience of love: the one who carries the object a and the one who supports desire.
- The end of analysis and the transmission of desire: from the body of the Uncanny to the world.
- The fundamental fantasy and the literal of desire.
- Remarks on the Freudian Abstinence vs the Subtraction of the Subject.
- Topology: a few remarks on practicing with a No-Body.
- The world within the world.
- The function of the Death drive after analysis.
- The death of the Nix-Being: the Signifier, the Letter and the Signature.
- Free Association and Desire.
- The Act we call ‘a psychoanalyst’.

Further information

Fees: GBP 10

Language: English

Date and time: 28.11.2020, from 6:30pm - 8pm

The seminar will be delivered online via Zoom application. You can book your ticket via Eventbrite here. After booking a ticket you will receive the webinar link and password via email.

Contact: Nadia Molodkina, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.