Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presentsOn the Subject in Child Analysis with Catherine Vanier
Saturday, January 21, 2017, 10:30 am – 2:00 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
The newborn child, says Lacan, can either become its parents’ symptom or an “object a” to fill the mother’s lack. Yet, thanks to analysis, a child can emerge as a subject ‘disengaged’ from obligations toward the parental other. Clinical examples will illustrate this passage and the transformation it induces. Continue reading On the Subject in Child Analysis with Catherine Vanier at Après-Coup