| Lutecium a non-school of Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis San Francisco, California |
| Didactic Seminar: Lacan's "Sinthome" and topology with Jacques Siboni, M.D. & Robert Groome _______________________________ Sunday, November 22, 2009 12pm - 5pm Flood Building, 870 Market St., San Francisco Room TBA |
| Join Jacques Siboni, M.D. at the following events as well ______________________________________________________ Psychoanalysis and Poetics with David Marriott, Ph.D. Click HERE for details |
| ______________________________________________________________ Film Event with Eric Essman, M.A., Diane Borden, Ph.D., Francisco Gonzalez, M.D., & Jacques Siboni, M.D. Click HERE for details Saturday, November 21, 2009 12pm - 5pm Variety Club Screening Room, Hobart Building, 582 Market St., San Francisco ______________________________________________________________ |
| 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. |
| Friday, November 20, 2009 6pm - 8pm (Followed by Writing Group "Letters" Reception & Presentations, 8pm - 10pm) Flood Building, 870 Market Street, San Francisco Room TBA |
Clinical Case Conference II:
Lutecium clinical case conferences are presented for the purpose of illustrating case formulations from a Lacanian perspective,
including the differentiation of character structure underlying the client’s symptoms and the presentation of the consequences of such
formulation on the clinician’s interventions necessary for the movement of the client’s treatment toward the cure. This case conference
is designed for practicing clinicians.
Utilizing the presented clinical material, Dr. Jacques Siboni will speak to the direction of the cure which revolves around the reclaiming of
the object a, and the acknowledgement on the part of the analysts of the real that exists within the kernel of the symptom. We will be
addressing the specific issues that arise when the perverse subject insists on objectifying him/her-self and others and how the analytic
space can be utilized to move the perverse subject into a place where he/she can begin to inhabit him/herself within a field that allows
less symbiosis and an increased definition between subject’s desire and the Other’s desire.
Following the formal case discussion by Dr. Jacques Siboni, course participants will be able to contribute their own perspectives relative
to the case and the case discussion as well as bring up any question to the case presenter and the instructor (supervisor).
Case Conference II Fee: $80 professionals / $60 interns / $40 students
This event has been submitted for MCEP approval (2 CE credits) - please check back for status (CEU event fee: $105)
Didactic Seminar:
Introduction to Topology and Psychoanalysis; Part III with Robert Groome:
Various commentaries on the correspondence between topology and Lacanian analysis have been eager to target what they perceive
as being either an unjust correlation between two disciplines or the psychotic 'sketches' of an aging Lacan holding no fundamental
place in an analytic theory or practice. This is particularly true of the term 'Lacanian topology' which has become a university brand-
name as well as a theme for free-lance analysts and bloggers. Be that as it may, it is evident today that to surmount the obstacles
posed by any work of structure a worker in the field needs, more than brains, a good set of kidneys in order to wade through the
pollution. Whatever the future may hold for the relation between topology and psychoanalysis, the implications that sketching and
infantile designs – in the sense of C.Ehresmann and Grothendeick – have for rending account of the structure of a theory has escaped
most of the Lacanian commentaries and most certainly all of the literary-critical philosophers.
Does the continual mentioning of topology and psychoanalysis – both pro or con – ever suffice to determine a consequence? What
would it mean to effectively construct a mode of appearance – a style and transfer – and not simply live or polemicize it in the market
place of knowledge?
Without denying the suggestive effects of hypnosis, we propose a more constructive use of topology. Just as Plato's inscription above
the door of his academy, "mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn" – "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here" – was not so
much a warning to the non-geometer, but to anyone unprepared to construct an argument on anything else besides words and
ambition. Lacan's insistence on putting topology at the doorway of analysis introduces a new mode of welcome: "Observe that it is on
the basis of the truth of a missed act that we analysts depart in order to advance. Without which there would be no analysis possible […]
From where a topology results that can be properly expressed as follows: that to designate the path of the exit, one enters without even
thinking about it, and after all the best way to enter in a certain way is to exit in a just manner" [Desire and Interpretation, p.65].
In spite of the current neo-lacanian trends, the knot will be used in our introduction in a constructive and heuristic mode rather than
being mentioned in an illustrative and polemic sense.
Lacan's seminar "Sinthome" with Jacques Siboni, M.D.
...description is forthcoming...
Didactic Seminar Fee: $100 professionals / $80 interns / $60students
Lutecium clinical case conferences are presented for the purpose of illustrating case formulations from a Lacanian perspective,
including the differentiation of character structure underlying the client’s symptoms and the presentation of the consequences of such
formulation on the clinician’s interventions necessary for the movement of the client’s treatment toward the cure. This case conference
is designed for practicing clinicians.
Utilizing the presented clinical material, Dr. Jacques Siboni will speak to the direction of the cure which revolves around the reclaiming of
the object a, and the acknowledgement on the part of the analysts of the real that exists within the kernel of the symptom. We will be
addressing the specific issues that arise when the perverse subject insists on objectifying him/her-self and others and how the analytic
space can be utilized to move the perverse subject into a place where he/she can begin to inhabit him/herself within a field that allows
less symbiosis and an increased definition between subject’s desire and the Other’s desire.
Following the formal case discussion by Dr. Jacques Siboni, course participants will be able to contribute their own perspectives relative
to the case and the case discussion as well as bring up any question to the case presenter and the instructor (supervisor).
Case Conference II Fee: $80 professionals / $60 interns / $40 students
This event has been submitted for MCEP approval (2 CE credits) - please check back for status (CEU event fee: $105)
Didactic Seminar:
Introduction to Topology and Psychoanalysis; Part III with Robert Groome:
Various commentaries on the correspondence between topology and Lacanian analysis have been eager to target what they perceive
as being either an unjust correlation between two disciplines or the psychotic 'sketches' of an aging Lacan holding no fundamental
place in an analytic theory or practice. This is particularly true of the term 'Lacanian topology' which has become a university brand-
name as well as a theme for free-lance analysts and bloggers. Be that as it may, it is evident today that to surmount the obstacles
posed by any work of structure a worker in the field needs, more than brains, a good set of kidneys in order to wade through the
pollution. Whatever the future may hold for the relation between topology and psychoanalysis, the implications that sketching and
infantile designs – in the sense of C.Ehresmann and Grothendeick – have for rending account of the structure of a theory has escaped
most of the Lacanian commentaries and most certainly all of the literary-critical philosophers.
Does the continual mentioning of topology and psychoanalysis – both pro or con – ever suffice to determine a consequence? What
would it mean to effectively construct a mode of appearance – a style and transfer – and not simply live or polemicize it in the market
place of knowledge?
Without denying the suggestive effects of hypnosis, we propose a more constructive use of topology. Just as Plato's inscription above
the door of his academy, "mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn" – "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here" – was not so
much a warning to the non-geometer, but to anyone unprepared to construct an argument on anything else besides words and
ambition. Lacan's insistence on putting topology at the doorway of analysis introduces a new mode of welcome: "Observe that it is on
the basis of the truth of a missed act that we analysts depart in order to advance. Without which there would be no analysis possible […]
From where a topology results that can be properly expressed as follows: that to designate the path of the exit, one enters without even
thinking about it, and after all the best way to enter in a certain way is to exit in a just manner" [Desire and Interpretation, p.65].
In spite of the current neo-lacanian trends, the knot will be used in our introduction in a constructive and heuristic mode rather than
being mentioned in an illustrative and polemic sense.
Lacan's seminar "Sinthome" with Jacques Siboni, M.D.
...description is forthcoming...
Didactic Seminar Fee: $100 professionals / $80 interns / $60students
| Clinical Case Conference II with Jacques Siboni, M.D. _______________________________ Saturday, November 21, 2009 6pm - 8pm Flood Building, 870 Market St., San Francisco Room TBA |
| Fall 2009 Immersion |
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