“Freud’s case histories; dora and the ratman”

Dear Colleagues and friends I would like to invite you to an intensive study group based on the clinical work of Sigmund Freud.

Freud's theoretical concepts are alive in the core of knowledge of  all Ψ schools, they are unique in the dialogues they have stimulated, in the research they have fostered, and in the contribution they have made to major therapeutic efforts. This is a step toward providing access to knowledge that will promote far ranging investigation of a host of philosophies and approaches.

This Study Group is aimed at learning by exploring and discussing Freud's case histories; Dora and the Ratman, their application to our clinical practice, and to social and cultural issues.

WHEN:                      Every 2^nd Tuesday,  September to December ‘08. 5:15 to 6:45 PM

                                    September; 9^th and 23^rd

       October; 7^th and 21^st                                       November 4^th and 18^th        

 December 2^nd and 16^th

VENUE:                    Lister Centre. 233 Mt Eden Rd

FEES:                                                                        $500,             

CLA MEMBERS:     $400

Students:                 $250  

FOR:                          Clinicians, Psych Students and anyone interested in the fundamentals of Psychoanalysis

Study Group

exploring PSYCHOSIS,

and the four DISCOURSES

Dear Colleagues and friends I would like to invite you to an intensive study to explore two very important issues in psychoanalysis; Psychosis and the Four Discourses.

1^st Part: Psychosis. Sigmund Freud introduced the terms Verdrängung, Verwerfung and Verleugnung (repression,  repudiation and disavowal) as  the particular subjective positions in relation to castration, those terms are the key concepts to understand the psychoanalytic clinical structures; Neurosis, Psychosis and Perversion.  Lacan, in The Seminar Book III, The Psychosis, established the boundary between neurosis and psychosis, between repression, Verdrängung, and repudiation, Verwerfung. Lacan replaced repudiation by withdrawal first and finally by "foreclosure" (forclusion).

2^nd Part: The Four Discourses.  Lacan identified four types of social bond, funded in language, four possible articulations of the symbolic network that articulate intersubjective relations. These four discourses are; the discourse of the master, the discourse of the university, the discourse of the hysteric and the discourse of the analyst.

This  Study Group is aimed at learning by exploring and discussing Lacan's main ideas about psychosis and the Four Discourses, and their application to our clinical practice, as well as to social and cultural issues.

WHEN:    Thursdays 5:00 to 6:30 PM. September to December ’08,

                   September 4^th, 11^th, 18^th and 25^th 

                   October 2^nd, 9^th, 16^th, 23^rd and 30^th            

                    November 6^th, 13^th, 20^th and 27^th               

   December 4^th and 11^th

VENUE:        Lister Centre. 233 Mt Eden Rd

FEES:                                                $900, 

CLA MEMBERS:             $750

Students;                 $375

FOR:             Clinicians, Psych Students, and anyone interested in the fundamentals of Psychoanalysis