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Psychoanalysis and Clinical Diagnosis

In this article, we will approach the question of clinical diagnosis in psychoanalysis. The full text of this article will appear as a chapter of my forthcoming book: Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language, Routledge, September 2021.

Symptom Formation

In this article, we will approach the question of symptom formation. The full text of this article will appear as a chapter of my forthcoming book: Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language, Routledge, September 2021.

How Can Psychoanalysis respond to the pandemic?

This article is published alongside the conference papers on the CP – UK website.

Supervision Today

This article is published in the CP – UK online publication.

Supervision is more than a political theme in psychoanalysis and it should be part of the ethics of psychoanalysis. Theorising such a concept in Lacan’s teaching is at the heart of the analyst’s desire. This shows how such a concept needs to be approached and treated. The idea of setting standards becomes absurd due to the fact that the position of how and when to form them is within the power of the subject. Many people ask when does a psychoanalyst start practising as a supervising analyst? As soon as s/he is appointed by a supervisee of the school and s/he agrees to be a “super-audition” of a clinical case. There is no finishing line for learning to learn.

What is the Unconscious?

Contribution to CFAR public seminar ‘The Unconscious’, held at UCL on Saturday 19th January 2019.

What was Lacan’s contribution to Freud’s second topic? What is referred to as the unconscious in Lacanian orientation? In this article, we will briefly discuss the concept of the unconscious based on Lacan’s work during the 60s and 70s in order to approach the above questions.

Memento: “I have this condition …” Psychosis and the Past

In this article, we will approach the question of self-creation in a psychotic subject in relation to the remembering and forgetting of past history. The full text of this article appeared as a chapter of my book: Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture, Routledge 2020.

The Position of the Analyst

Contribution to the Lacan-Jung Dialogue ‘Position of the Analyst’, held at Middlesex University on Saturday 2nd December 2017. The full text of this article appeared as a chapter of my book: Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture, Routledge 2020.

Lacan’s trajectory of approaching the question of “the position of the analyst” starts with Hegelian thoughts on the Other’s desire. Then, he opposes the idea of transference and the so-called counter-transference before his 11th seminar in 1964. A few years later, on the effect of psychoanalytic training and the analyst of the school, we have “The proposition of the analyst of the school 9th Oct 1967”. Eventually, he designed “la pass” – a process through which to find a way of understanding the position of the analyst. He never put forward a theory on the position of the analyst as what it is, but rather as what its function is. The analyst is (1) a subject who occupies such position to (2) function at the level of (3) the Real unconscious.