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| Inside the Lacanian Clinic Welcome to Inside the Lacanian Clinic, an ongoing Seminar Series established by the Lacanian Forum of Washington D.C. in cooperation with the New Washington School of Psychiatry. The Seminar Series (four Seminars per academic year via Zoom) is founded on the firm conviction that Lacan has crucial things to say about both psychoanalysis and our contemporary world and that what he says can be understood. Thus the Series chooses as presenters practicing Lacanian analysts, all of whom have been trained from within the Lacanian field and are known for the depth of their knowledge, clinical experience, and demonstrated teaching skills. Each seminar will start with a theoretical presentation, for example, how to intervene in psychosis, followed by two hours during which theory will be specifically linked to clinical practice, including one hour of discussion in a small groups format. 3 CE/CMEs Credits per.
Registration links are provided below per seminar. Questions or more information contact: devrasimiu@aol.com.
Seminar Schedule 2025 (Via Zoom) Saturday, Jan. 18th, 2025: 11:00 a.m.— 2:00 p.m. (ET) Luis Izcovich, M.D. (Paris) Non-standard Psychoanalysis 3.0 CEs/CMEs Program Description: In this Seminar, Dr. Luis Izcovich, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, Professor of Psychoanalysis at Paris VIII, will address the question of non-standard psychoanalysis, that is to say, psychoanalysis oriented by a commitment to the singularity of each human subject. The consequences of this are two-fold:
Learning objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe Lacan’s concept of “desire of the analyst” and its relevance for clinical practice. 2. Participants will be able to describe Lacan’s theory of interpretation, its various modalities and uses in a clinical setting. 3. Participants will be able to describe Lacan’s concept of time and its uses in a clinical setting.
Saturday, Mar. 15th, 2025: 11:00 a.m.— 2:00 p.m. (ET) Macario Giraldo, Ph.D. (Washington) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Or Between the Real and Reality CEs/CMEs pending Program Description: In this Seminar, Dr. Macario Giraldo, psychoanalyst, author (Dialogues In and of the Group. London: Karnac), well-known teacher and lecturer in the Lacanian field and in the field of Group Psychotherapy, will address the topic of the confrontation with reality that has moved the speaking being from nature to culture. This movement of humanization constitutes a structure of duality inescapable for the subject. According to Lacan, Angst, (Anxiety) is the central affect in the gap between our reality as subjects of language and the Real, that which is outside the Symbolic. Thus Anxiety becomes central to the management of the transference, informing both analyst and analysand about how the subject maintains a degree of tension that is neither excessive nor absent. Learning objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe Lacan’s concept of Anxiety as the only affect that does not lie. 2. Participants will be able to describe the role of Anxiety in the treatment. 3. Participants will be able to describe Lacan’s view of the management of the transference and apply it in a clinical setting.
Saturday, May 17th, 2025: 11:00 a.m.— 2:00 p.m. (ET) Sonia Alberti, Ph.D.(Rio de Janeiro) The Clinic of Psychosis, with Estamira CEs/CMEs pending Program Description: In this Seminar, Dr. Sonia Alberti, psychoanalyst, prolific author, Full Professor at the Institute for Psychology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, will review the theory of psychosis, from Freud to Lacan, from the Paternal Metaphor to pousse-à-la-femme (push to the woman) to the final theory of knots, making use of a documentary interview with Estamira, the proper name a schizophrenic woman gave herself in a 2004 interview with Brazilian filmmaker Marcos Prado. The aim of the presentation will be to understand psychosis as a consequence of the fact that we are speaking beings and therefore determined by our relation with the pre-existent Other that structures the unconscious as a language and relates the subject to lalangue. The clinical orientation required in working with cases of psychosis will be discussed and clarified. Learning objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe and discuss the clinical orientation required for working with cases of psychosis, according to Lacanian theory. 2. Participants will be able to describe Lacan’s concepts of Paternal Metaphor and “push to the woman”. 3. Participants will be able to describe and discuss a specific case of psychosis in which a patient gives herself a proper name.
Saturday, May 31st, 2025: 11:00 a.m.— 2:00 p.m. (ET) Norma Schwartz, M.S.W. (Washington) The Echo of Modernity CEs/CMEs pending Program Description: In this Seminar, Norma Schwartz, M.S.W., psychoanalyst, teacher, Founder and Director of the Lacan Study Group at the Washington School of Psychiatry (2002-2022), will introduce the period of Western Civilization—Modernity— in which immense advances occurred in the arts, sciences, and technology while, at the same time, “monstrous aspects” emerged, which Lacan will describe as "…the sacrifice to… the dark God…and once again, there are certainly few who do not succumb to the fascination of the sacrifice in itself…” (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI, Class 20). The presentation will explore the extraterritorial resources to psychoanalysis—sociology history, anthropology, philosophy—which become essential for a Lacanian psychoanalysis in the 21st century; and will mark the historical milestones in which the characteristics of Modernity coexist in its two perspectives, and “neither one can live without the other, they are united like two sides of a coin” (Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 1989). The modern Western world is now traversed by ideals of individualism and biologism, nihilism and segregation, the sexualization of identity. We as psychoanalysts read the effects of this in the suffering that brings today’s subjects to our offices. Based on Lacan’s concept of the subject, the presentation will conclude with a critique of the contemporary notion of “being”. Learning objectives: 1. Participants will be able to describe and discuss the period in Western Civilization known as Modernity. 2. Participants will be able to describe and discuss the effects of Modernity on contemporary subjects, as seen in the setting of the clinic. 3. Participants will be able to compare and contrast contemporary notions of being and Lacan’s concept of being. |
