| Lutecium a non-school of Lacanian/Freudian Psychoanalysis San Francisco, California |
| Lacan on Resistance: "The patient's resistance is always your own" Workshop by Rebecca Bauknight, Ph.D. |
Lacan uses the term inter-dit to describe the effects that language, poetry, or painting have beyond mere words. When words or art
translate into “a truth that resonates” within the subject, this resonance can’t be directly related to a particular word or set of words. As
clinicians, we can look towards the analytic setting, we can look at the didactic setting, we can draw from our own analysis, we can look
at the act of reading articles, to begin to understand a complex linguistic process and discourses by which we are at times shocked,
offended, nonplussed, bored, agitated, inspired as they attempt to reveal analytic “truth.” But what is the analytic process that enables
“transmission” to occur within the clinical setting beyond the motivations of teachers, analysts, and writings that desire to produce
varying levels of effects and reactions? Can we pinpoint when transmission occurs? That time when something new actually becomes
incorporated, made corporal, embodied by the subject….wherein there is movement regarding a certain translation at the level of the
symptom beyond conscious reactions, beyond affect? At which point does the analyst address the resistance, whether masquerading
as total compliance or total rebellion? How does “working the resistance” produce changes in symptoms and how does one “work the
resistance” in such a way that an interruption occurs within the refusal of ex(change) to enable transmission? To what extent does the
analyst’s unresolved symptoms flare up within the resistance regarding the questions and challenges that resistance at its best poses
to the station and imaginary identifications that the analyst, as subject, has towards the “analyzing role assigned to him/her by
patients”? How does the clinician/analyst understand himself or herself as a transferential object within the space of resistance,
particularly in the form of the negative or annihilating transference?
In this workshop we will explore Lacan’s understanding of the importance of resistance and the building up of resistance as the patient
begins to uncover the pathogenic nucleus, the site of the original rupture of being….that which is ineffable and the source of the
original divide of nonbeing into being before language is assimilated, the subject’s confrontation with the Real, the Real of the body.
Resistance emanates from the imaginary setting up barriers to and through speech. Resistance sets up barriers to these potential
pathways and links and is the natural default of the ego, the time of speech of the subject predicated on an illusion of self. We will
explore the importance and the necessary defensive structuring of meconnaissance, and how to work with the subtle and complex
layers of resistance that also serve to “hold the subject together by holding his/her symptom in place.” We will use case material to
explore the movement of the subject through various states of identifications and representations within the analytic work that include
the analyst as subject that is supposed to know, the analyst as object a / the REAL.
translate into “a truth that resonates” within the subject, this resonance can’t be directly related to a particular word or set of words. As
clinicians, we can look towards the analytic setting, we can look at the didactic setting, we can draw from our own analysis, we can look
at the act of reading articles, to begin to understand a complex linguistic process and discourses by which we are at times shocked,
offended, nonplussed, bored, agitated, inspired as they attempt to reveal analytic “truth.” But what is the analytic process that enables
“transmission” to occur within the clinical setting beyond the motivations of teachers, analysts, and writings that desire to produce
varying levels of effects and reactions? Can we pinpoint when transmission occurs? That time when something new actually becomes
incorporated, made corporal, embodied by the subject….wherein there is movement regarding a certain translation at the level of the
symptom beyond conscious reactions, beyond affect? At which point does the analyst address the resistance, whether masquerading
as total compliance or total rebellion? How does “working the resistance” produce changes in symptoms and how does one “work the
resistance” in such a way that an interruption occurs within the refusal of ex(change) to enable transmission? To what extent does the
analyst’s unresolved symptoms flare up within the resistance regarding the questions and challenges that resistance at its best poses
to the station and imaginary identifications that the analyst, as subject, has towards the “analyzing role assigned to him/her by
patients”? How does the clinician/analyst understand himself or herself as a transferential object within the space of resistance,
particularly in the form of the negative or annihilating transference?
In this workshop we will explore Lacan’s understanding of the importance of resistance and the building up of resistance as the patient
begins to uncover the pathogenic nucleus, the site of the original rupture of being….that which is ineffable and the source of the
original divide of nonbeing into being before language is assimilated, the subject’s confrontation with the Real, the Real of the body.
Resistance emanates from the imaginary setting up barriers to and through speech. Resistance sets up barriers to these potential
pathways and links and is the natural default of the ego, the time of speech of the subject predicated on an illusion of self. We will
explore the importance and the necessary defensive structuring of meconnaissance, and how to work with the subtle and complex
layers of resistance that also serve to “hold the subject together by holding his/her symptom in place.” We will use case material to
explore the movement of the subject through various states of identifications and representations within the analytic work that include
the analyst as subject that is supposed to know, the analyst as object a / the REAL.
| This Workshop is offered Sunday, May 10, 2009, 10am - 2pm Flood Building, 870 Market Street, San Francisco Room - TBA ________________________________________________________ |
Fee: $80 professionals / $60 interns / $40 students