| Lutecium a non-school of Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis San Francisco, California |
| Immersion Course with Jacques Siboni, M.D. ___________________________________ Seminar: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis |
Jacques Lacan dedicated his 1959-1960 seminar to the ethics of psychoanalysis. This seminar is a milestone in Lacan’s teachings.
While I could comment on this seminar to the audience of Lutecium Psychoanalytic Training Group, I prefer to take another approach in
my lecture. Namely, I will comment on the major differences that occurred to me as I observed the way psychoanalysts direct the cure in
France and in the US.
Questioning the ethics of psychoanalysis has to be a constant task for any analyst. While most of the themes I intend to discuss are not
resolved among the psychoanalysts in France, there are a few elements of practice which do not seem to raise questions there
anymore as they have been transmitted by Lacan to a majority of us. These elements frequently look awkward and "politically incorrect"
to the psychoanalysts in the US.
The themes we will discuss include:
While I could comment on this seminar to the audience of Lutecium Psychoanalytic Training Group, I prefer to take another approach in
my lecture. Namely, I will comment on the major differences that occurred to me as I observed the way psychoanalysts direct the cure in
France and in the US.
Questioning the ethics of psychoanalysis has to be a constant task for any analyst. While most of the themes I intend to discuss are not
resolved among the psychoanalysts in France, there are a few elements of practice which do not seem to raise questions there
anymore as they have been transmitted by Lacan to a majority of us. These elements frequently look awkward and "politically incorrect"
to the psychoanalysts in the US.
The themes we will discuss include:
- The duration of the sessions
- The cost of the sessions
- The psychoanalyst's legal responsibility involved in the consequences of the cure for the patient
- What lies behind the analyst's neutrality
- Relationship to the IPA
- Relationship to other psychoanalytic organizations (the integrative idea of psychoanalysis vs. a recognition of difference that
exists among psychoanalytic orientations) - Relationship to the University and to the diplomas
- Transference and countertransference (as well as empathy, emotional attunement, and projective identification)
- Need for supervision and control
- The end of transference
- Need for work in a cartel
- The importance of nomination
- What about the absence of total knowledge, in oneself, in any other, the Other being barred
- Ethics of "La Passe"
- Ethics of psychoanalysis and transmission
| Sunday, November 16, 2008 11am - 3pm Flood Building, 870 Market Street, San Francisco Room 1185 |
| ______________________________________________________ Clinical Case Conference Jacques Siboni, M.D., will facilitate a clinical case conference from a Lacanian perspective. |
| ______________________________________________________________ Join Jacques Siboni, M.D. and Lutecium members at the Reception Night of the Writing Group Formation - Letters Friday, November 21, 2008 6pm - 8pm Flood Building, 870 Market Street, San Francisco Room 838 ______________________________________________________________ |
| Jacques Siboni, M.D., is available for individual consultations by appointment during his visit in San Francisco. Please email Dr. Siboni to arrange the time and discuss consultation fee. |
| Thursday, November 20, 2008 6pm - 8pm Flood Building, 870 Market Street, San Francisco Room 1063 |