Renie Spoelstra

In Spanish, the word duelo means mourning and grief, but also duel: a struggle for recognition. Indeed, the mourning process is both a challenge and an opportunity for subjects to recompose their symbolic universes, recovering the lack that can rekindle desire. Through various clinical examples, we will propose new tools for treating bereavement.

Suggested readings: Freud: “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917). Lacan: Seminars VI, 1958-59, Desire and Its Interpretation, classes 13-19, on Hamlet, March 4 to April 29, 1959; VII, 1959-60, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, classes 19-21, on Antigone, May 25 - June 15, 1960; X, 1962-63, L'Angoisse [Angst], class 24, July 3, 1963, on the function of mourning. Bauab, Adriana: Times of Mourning: Bereavement, Clinical Challenge, and Subjectivity (Lexington Books, 2021).

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

Fee: $40; for students with ID: $10. Registration details to follow.

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Adriana Bauab practices psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires, where she has directed and taught in the postgraduate Program in Psychoanalysis at the Centro de Salud Mental Ameghino and been a vice-president of, and is a Member Analyst at, the Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires. Her latest book is El psicoanálisis en la escena contemporánea: cuerpo, síntoma, arte.

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