Reading Room: A Talk with the Author

Freud’s Two Forms of Chance — Guy Dana

La fortune des deux hasards. Essai sur la méthode en psychanalyse (Collection Nouages, Stilus 2022)  

Friday, November 1, 2024 • 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM (ET)

Freud put forward two different views of chance: “I believe in external (real) chance, but not in internal (psychic) chance. This is the opposite of superstitious.” Freud’s formula, which neatly divides a chance that exists and another that doesn’t, brings about the confrontation between the fundamental rule and unconscious causality, which implicitly offers us a valuable key to analytic technique and the articulation of the analytic act.

Location: In-person in NYC and online via Zoom. 

Fee: Attendance is free and open to the public.

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Guy Dana is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who practices in Paris. Formed by Lacan, he has been head of a psychiatric hospital unit, served as president of the Cercle Freudian, and cofounded the international association Convergencia. His many publications include the book Quelle politique pour la folie? (Stock, 2010).