The Unconscious in the Era of the Smart Phone: Parapraxis and the Call for Treatment with Angelo Villa at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association

A CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATION
The Unconscious in the Era of the Smart Phone: Parapraxis and the Call for Treatment with Angelo Villa

Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 8:30 pm – 10:30 pm
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
The analytic cure of a child involves, and also questions, its family history, with particular reference to the position of the mother, defining not just its causal origin but, above all, what the mother must lose if she is to let the child’s subjectivity emerge.
SUGGESTED READINGS: Lacan, “Note sur l’enfant” (1969), Autres écrits, Paris: Seuil, 2001, pp. 373-375 [originally “Deux notes sur l’Enfant,” Ornicar? No. 37 (1986), pp. 13-14]; Le Séminaire IV, 1956/57: La relacion d’objet, classes 9-11, “L’objet fétiche.”
Angelo Villa, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst practicing in Milan, where he also teaches at the Università Bicocca, the Istituto Freudiano, and the IRPA (Institute for Applied Psychoanalytic Research). A member of the World Psychoanalytic Association (AMP), he is the author of many articles, a Glossario Lacaniano,and other books on such diverse topics as the end of the cure in treatment of psychoses (Il tempo spezzato),immigration and alterity (Intercultura e immigrazione), psychoanalysis and physical disabilities (La mano nel cappello, translated as Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap [London, Karnac, 2013]), the legacy of ’68 and parenting (Il sogno de Telemaco), and singer-songwriters’ pop songs (Pink Freud. Psicoanlisi della canzone d’autore).
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