Birksted-Breen discusses the mode of attentiveness that she calls bi-ocularity: one eye/I on the immediate and one eye/I on that which is not present, the” there” of the unconscious, the lost connection, the non represented. She distinguishes it from Bion’s notion of “binocular vision”. Bi-ocularity entails a necessary gap in the images, which also corresponds to the temporal gap of reverie. She considers the importance of bi-ocularity for the development of symbolic thinking and discusses this with clinical material. Continue reading Bi-Ocularity, the Functioning Mind of the Psychoanalyst with Dr. Dana Birksted-Breen at IPTAR

Free and open to the public Continue reading Control and Reward Circuits in Disorders of Self-regulation with Rachel Marsh, Ph.D. at NYPSI

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
2014-2015 SEMINAR SERIES
Introducing Lacan: On the Three Registers

October 8 & 22 Mark Stafford, Unconscious
November 19 & December 10 Paola Mieli, Drives
January 14 & February 4 David Lichtenstein, Language
February 25 & March 18 Adriana Passini, Repetition (March 18, and not March 12 as listed previously)
April 8 & 29 Martin Winn, Mirror Stage
May 20 & June 10 Lillian Ferrari, Angst

This seminar, which requires prior familiarity with Freud’s basic texts, is intended as an introduction to Jacques Lacan’s theory of the Real, the Symbolic, and the Imaginary as structuring human subjectivity.
Continue reading Seminar Series: Introducing Lacan: On the Three Registers at Après-Coup

Click Here to Read:  French Surrealism: A Revolution of the Mind with Mary Ann Caws, Anne-marie , Levine, Mark Polizzotti, Bill Zavatsky at the Helix Center in NYC on December 6, 2014.