Toys: The Object, Its Place in the Scene, and the Phantasm with Alba Flesler at Après-Coup

 Après-Coup
PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION
Saturday, June 7, 2014,  10:30 am – 2:00 pm
TOYS: THE OBJECT, ITS PLACE IN THE SCENE, AND THE PHANTASM
Alba Flesler

Workshop on Child Analysis Alba Flesler The use of toys in child analysis has always provoked controversy. What is their logic? We will examine the times of the object and its vicissitudes in the structure of the subject, and connect these theoretical  ccoordinates through clinical vignettes.

SUGGESTED READINGS: Lacan, Seminar XXII, R.S.I., 1974/75, classes 1 and 2. Flesler, El niño en análisis y las intervenciones del analista (Buenos Aires: Paidós, 2011), chapters 2 (especially pp. 63 and 64) and 3.

MEETING PLACE: The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), New York City. Please ask at the front desk for the room number.

 ATTENDANCE FEE: $50. For students with ID: $20.

Attendance is free for all members of Après-Coup as well as for the faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts.