December 2-3
Saturday: 9am-5pm; Sunday 9am-11am
Organised by the ACP and the Forum of Melbourne (IF-SPFLF), this year’s second International Lacan Seminar is open to all colleagues interested in psychoanalysis, and will be held in person and over zoom.
Program and registration HERE
Semester Two:
Radu Turcanu
Title:
Anxiety and the True Hole in the Borromean Knot – Some Clinical Implications Concerning Transference and the End of an Analysis
Arguement:
Anxiety is an affect which plays a key role in analysis. It is not only the affect which does not deceive, the closest to what Lacan calls the real, but also a middle term between desire and jouissance (Seminar X). Conditioning desire and accompanying jouissance (as in sexuality in general, and orgasm in particular), anxiety is the major expression of the encounter with the hole in the Other.
The subject can transform anxiety in desire, when it becomes obvious that anxiety and desire share the same object, the small a as both cause of desire and disquieting presence of the enigma of the Other.
Transference, in psychoanalysis, “true love” admits Freud, is love for knowledge, insists Lacan, incarnated by a subject supposed to this knowledge, the analyst, which gradually becomes unconscious knowledge without any subject. Two different solutions present themselves to the subject, as the Borromean knot shows it. The false hole, that of meaning, which tempers anxiety, a therapeutical by-product of the analytic treatment, following Freud. And the true (or real) hole, where anxiety facing the bar on the Other is that of the horror of knowing that there is no guarantee for the real singularity, that which is grounded in jouissance.
The end of analysis can thus be presented as a response to the anxiety coming from the hole in the Other: not only the analyst is authorized only by himself and…some others, but this holds true for the sexual speaking being her/himself.
Speaker Details:
Radu Turcanu
Psychoanalyst, Clinical Psychologist in Paris
AMS of EPFCL, Director of the School (2019-2020), Present member of the CIG (2023-2023)
Founding member of FCL-Romania in 2012
PhD in comparative literature, University of Illinois, USA (1998)
Doctor in psychoanalysis and clinical psychopathology, University of Paris 7 (2004)
