We regretfully announce that due to unforeseen circumstances, Alain Didier-Weill will not be able to attend this conference.
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
PANEL DISCUSSION
“S’auteuriser de lui-même?”
Alain Didier-Weill and Jean-Michel Vives
Saturday, June 24, 2017
10:30 am – 2:30 pm
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
When Lacan says “the analyst is authorized only by himself,” to what does “himself” (lui-même) refer? Far from being a solipsistic turn back upon the self, this lui-même implies an opening onto the Real and receptivity toward the unexpected. The discourse of the analyst is one in which a subject ventures an act of creation through a speech act.
Alain Didier-Weill is a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and writer. He was a member of the École freudienne de Paris and active participant in Lacan’s 1975, ’76 and ’80 seminars. He co-founded Coût freudien, and Continue reading “S’auteuriser de lui-même?” with Alain Didier-Weill and Jean-Michel Vives at Après-Coup