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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.

Event Details 

On 24th of October 2020 Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will hold a seminar entitled 'Oceanic Feeling': a Monad without Perspective. 

Summary

In psychoanalysis, including the works of Freud, the 'Oceanic Feeling' is characterised as a feeling and not as a topological space where the subject can facilitate countless possibilities. It has been associated with the real, psychoses, dreams; and a plethora of explanations have been given without, however, being linked with what Freud has called the exception to the rule of love. In this webinar, Petros Patounas will touch upon the following, amongst other, themes:

- Oceanic experience and Love.

- Anxiety and the Ocean of the Monad.

- Feminine Jouissance and the ‘body of the World’ that is not universal.

- Where the Ego was, the Act shall be.

- Creation and Faith.

- Object a as cause of desire within the non-oceanic.

Further information

Fees: Free

Language: English

Date and time: 24.10.2020, from 6:30pm - 8pm

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.

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

Event Details

On 23rd of September 2020 Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will hold a seminar entitled: “Das Ding: that which is Feminine”. 

Summary

Among others, the presentation will touch upon themes and questions such as:

- What is the Thing?

- What place does it have in the psychoanalytic practice?

- How is it associated with Jouissance?

- Das Ding and desire.

- The Thing and the Breath.

- The object a, das ding and the object of desire.

Further information

Fees: Free

Language: English

Date and time: 23.09.2020, from 7pm - 8.30pm

The seminar will be delivered online via Zoom application, therefore, please get in touch to receive your link and password.

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