2024–25 calendar of events
Note: All times are Eastern Time Zone
Then and Now: On the Crowd, the Subject, and the Collective
This collection of essays offers some novel reflections on the nature of the crowd, the collective, and the subject’s relation to the social link. Prompted mainly by Freud’s Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego, the authors analyze crucial issues ranging from La Boétie’s late Renaissance theory of voluntary servitude to the early 20th-century Europe’s collapsed empires and revolutionary uprisings, to progressive South Africans’ turn to segregationism, to Bolsonaro’s adoption of Nazi rhetoric.
The Feminine Deal — Gisèle Chaboudez
For the past twenty-five years, Gisèle Chaboudez has been rigorously interpreting and writing on Lacan’s concept of the sexual non-relation. For millennia the sexual law that universally defines “man as the one who has and woman as the one who is what he has” has masked and compensated for the absence of sexual relation, while generating a myriad of subjective and social effects. The feminine side of sexuation, which can be occupied by any gender, introduces the logic of the Not-all, creating the possibility for two jouissances to be shared in a singular and inventive way.
Dates to be announced
Psychoanalysis in the Institution — Ona Nierenberg
This clinical group will be oriented to the unique challenges and opportunities we encounter in hospitals, clinics, prisons, treatment programs, schools, and other institutions. We will explore the often surprising possibilities the analyst has to create and sustain space for the singular even in settings dominated by claims to the universal. Open to those currently working clinically in or with institutions.
On the One and the Pas-Tout: The Analytic Act — Paola Mieli
Pursuing our reflections on the relations between the subject and the collective, and the discourses that organize them, we will focus on the function of the One and the logic of the pas-tout in the analytic discourse. In light of the uniqueness of each analytic act, we will address the relation between universal, particular, and singular in the analytic field, as well as the logical times that mark the unfolding of the treatment and the end of an analysis.
All and Not-All (Part III)
Après-Coup Presentations. Date and time to be announced. Registration details to follow. This event will be free and open to the public.