Jacques Lacan’s Return to Freud and Its Clinical Implications II
David Lichtenstein PhD and Jamieson Webster PhD
Course will be held at The New School
66 West 12th Street (Room TBA)
Six Sessions: 1/7-2/11 8-9:30pm
A common misconception concerning Jacques Lacan is that his work
was inherently un-clinical— that he did not discuss clinical issues
concerning technique or provide clinical cases— making him more of a
philosopher or meta-theoretician. In this course, we hope to dispel this
mischaracterization and begin with key clinical cases touched on by
Lacan during his Seminars from 1952-1980, from Freud’s Little Hans
and The Case of a Female Homosexual, to his discussion of cases by
other psychoanalysts such as Ernst Kris, Ella Freeman Sharpe, and
Joan Riviere. Through this reading of cases and Lacan’s often unknown
and extensive commentary on them, we hope to touch on some key
Lacanian concepts— the signifier, desire, castration, the Real, and
feminine sexuality— in order to better grasp their place and function in
clinical work, including situating Lacan’s criticism of the changes to
technique in contemporary analysis.
While this is part II of an earlier course in 2012 that paired texts by
Freud with Lacan’s commentary on them, it is not necessary to have
attended part I. The course is designed to meet all levels of knowledge
regarding Lacan and Lacanian theory.
Space is limited.
Please RSVP:jamieson.websterphd@gmail.com
David Lichtenstein is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NY. He is on the faculty at CUNY’s doctoral program in clinical psychology; founding member of Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association; and editor of Division/Review, a quarterly publication on psychoanalysis by Division 39. He has written extensively on psychoanalysis, Lacan, his clinical work with children, art and politics.
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NY. She teaches at Eugene Lang College at The New School and she supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Karnac 2011) and Stay, Illusion! (Pantheon
2013).