by Admin General | Feb 21, 2015
Site member Barry Watt will be giving a talk on the relationship between housing and mental health issues at the PEER Gallery n Hoxton, London. He will be discussing the work of RD Laing and Lacan with respect to the notion of ‘foreclosure’, understood both as the psychological mechanism generative of psychosis, as well as ‘foreclosure’ as the legal mechanism that allows for the repossession of homes. He will be addressing how the social, legal and psychological processes relate to one another and what the social consequences are for communities being ‘foreclosed upon’ by the processes of gentrification in London.
There will be a Q & A after. The event is free.
More details here
by Admin General | Feb 21, 2015
Psychotherapy Workshops
Spring 2015
The Site is very pleased to offer another series of psychotherapy workshops that will be running in Truro in Spring 2015. The workshops will show how contemporary psychoanalysis can bring a richer understanding to varied social and clinical situations. They will be delivered by psychotherapists involved with the Site training in clinical psychoanalysis in Truro.
These workshops are open to those who have an interest in the ideas and practices of contemporary psychoanalysis and its place in everyday life. There will be information available about the Site training and attendance certificates for CPD purposes.
Klein’s View of Misogyny, March 28th, with Linda Buckingham
In her 1928 paper “Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict” Klein describes the boy’s Femininity Complex as the root of misogyny in males. If not resolved benignly, envy of female nurturing and reproductive functions is converted to hatred and contempt. The paper is controversial and has not been furthered by Kleinian theorists or feminists, who do not expect to find in Klein’s work anything to further our understanding of the inequality of the sexes. This workshop will revisit Klein to cast light on the enduring phenomenon of misogyny in contemporary culture.
Linda Buckingham is a Tavistock trained child psychotherapist who has been involved in the practice and teaching of psychoanalysis for many years in London. She has recently moved to Cornwall, and is currently undertaking some child psychotherapy work for CAMHS in Penzance and Redruth. She is involved in the Site SW training
Lacan, Transference & Interpretation, May 2nd with Elizabeth O’Loughlin
In her second workshop on Lacan, Elizabeth will explore his radical re formulation of transference. Lacan argues that “there is, in fact, an imaginary element and a symbolic element in the transference, and there is thus a choice to be made.” If, as Lacan claims,“the symbolic dimension is the only dimension that cures” interventions need to address the symbolic component of the transference, setting the imaginary component aside. What then is the symbolic component of the transference and what would it mean to interpret it? What is the imaginary component and what is it about the ego that makes it the source of resistance?
Elizabeth O’Loughlin practices as a Lacanian analyst in Bristol and is also involved in the Severnside training in clinical psychoanalysis.
Workshops run from 1.00 – 4.00pm, with a short break at 2.30pm.
Venue
The second floor training room, the Library, Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall
Cost and booking
The standard rate is £25 per workshop, with a concessionary rate of £10.
To book please complete the form below. We have introduced a reduced rate for multiple bookings where both are booked and paid for at the same time:
1 session: £25
2 sessions: £45
For the unwaged: £10 per session or £15 if both are booked at the same time.
For further enquires
Dr Sally Sales can be contacted on 01726 870169 or s.sales@virgin.net
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Booking Form
Please indicate which workshops you wish to attend and whether you wish to attend a series at the reduced fee (see above). Send your cheque, payable to „The Site‟, together with this completed form to: The Administrator, The Site, 35 Manor Road, Potters Bar, EN6 1DQ.
You can also pay by electronic transfer of funds to: Unity Trust Bank, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Sort code: 08-60-01; Account No: 20099428. Please insert your name as reference and email siteenquiries2015@gmail.com to advise that payment has been made.
Misogyny March 28th …..………….………………… £25 £10
Lacan May 2nd ………………………………………………£25 £10
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by Admin General | Feb 5, 2015
This new translation by SITE member and leading translator of psychoanalytic theory, Dorothée Bonnigal-Katz, is the first English version of Scarfone’s text. The book was originally commissioned as part of the Presses Universitaires de France’s series Psychoanalysts d’aujourd’hui in 1997 and, rather than a mere overview of Laplanche’s work, presents an insight into the theoretical innovations and achievements of his psychoanalytic thought.
For more information and pre-order details, please see the Unconscious in Translation website.
by Admin General | Jan 8, 2015
Psychotherapy Workshops
Winter 2015
The Site is very pleased to offer another series of psychotherapy workshops that will be running in Truro in winter 2015. The workshops will show how contemporary psychoanalysis can bring a richer understanding to varied social and clinical situations. They will be delivered by psychotherapists involved with the Site training in clinical psychoanalysis in Truro.
These workshops are open to those who have an interest in the ideas and practices of contemporary psychoanalysis and its place in everyday life. There will be information available about the Site training and attendance certificates for CPD purposes.
Psychoanalysis and Disappointment, January 31st, with Sally Sales
It has been said that psychoanalysis is about saying disappointing things to people in the nicest possible way. This suggests that whilst disappointment is good for us, it is also an experience that we find difficult to face. In this workshop we will explore the place of disappointment in both psychoanalysis and the wider social field to address the following questions: Do children today have enough disappointment? What forms of disappointment are the most challenging? What are the consequences of not being disappointed enough?
Sally Sales is chair of training for the Site SW and a psychoanalyst in private practice
Psychoanalysis and creativity, February 14th, with Ilric Shetland
Psychoanalysis has always had a great deal to say about creativity and the creative process, starting with Freud’s paper on Leonardo da Vinci. Some psychoanalytic traditions see creativity as an achievement, while others see it as a symptom of neurosis. This workshop will explore different psychoanalytic accounts of creativity and assess their usefulness in understanding the creative process.
Ilric Shetland is involved in the Site SW training. He works as both a psychoanalyst and an artist and has a long standing interest in bringing these two fields into dialogue.
Workshops run from 1.00 – 4.00pm, with a short break at 2.30 at the second floor training room, the Library, Pydar Street, Truro, Cornwall
Cost and booking
The standard rate is £25 per workshop, with a concessionary rate of £10.
To book please complete the form below. We have introduced a reduced rate for multiple booking as shown below:
Booking Form
1 session: £25
2 sessions: £45
For the unwaged: £10 per session or £15 if both are booked at the same time.
For further enquires
Dr Sally Sales can be contacted on 01726 870169 or s.sales@virgin.net
Please indicate which workshops you wish to attend and whether you wish to attend a series at the reduced fee (see above). Send your cheque, payable to „The Site‟, together with this completed form to: The Site Administrator, 35 Manor Road, Potters Bar, EN6 1DQ.
You can also pay by electronic transfer of funds to: Unity Trust Bank, The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Sort code: 08-60-01; Account No: 20099428. Please insert your name as reference and email the-site@the-site.org.uk to advise that payment has been made.
Disappointment 31 January 2015 …..………….…………………£25 £10
Creativity 14 February 2015…………………………………………£25 £10
Full name: __________________________Email ________________________
Tel: home _____________Mobile________________________
Address ______________________________________________________
Postcode ___________
by Admin General | Dec 22, 2014
Spring 2015 Conference
Conflict
10am to 5pm on Saturday 16 May 2015
Venue: Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA
What does a contemporary psychoanalysis have to say about conflict? Is there anything new to add about that which is at the heart of all the stories psychoanalysis wants to tell?
The SITE 2015 Spring Conference takes conflict as a foundational concept in psychoanalysis, not merely because of a supposed conflict that is at the heart of every neurosis, but because it is always already established in the split between the conscious and the unconscious.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JOSH COHEN
Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, including How to Read Freud (Granta, 2005). His latest book is The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark (Granta, 2013).
Giving up without a fight:
The wish to sleep in psychoanalysis and culture
Prior to desire and the conflicts to which it gives rise, suggests the French psychoanalyst Piera Aulagnier, we find ‘the original presence of the rejection of living in favour of the search for a state of quiescence, of non-desire’. Non-desire, she posits, precedes the inexorable thrust of the organism towards dynamism, growth and conflict, and seeks to reverse it.
Freud had begun to hint at this primary state of non-desire in his meditations on the convergence of love and silence in ‘The Theme of the Three Caskets’ (1913), and on sleep in the ‘Metapsychological Supplement to the Theory of Dreams’ (1917), before placing non-desire, or the drive to return to an undisturbed state, at the centre of psychic life in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920). The wish to sleep, to extinguish psychic conflict, may be older and stronger than the wish to dream, or sustain psychic conflict.
Drawing on both clinical material and works of literature (as well as other arts), this lecture will explore the insistently recurring fascination in psychoanalysis for an original state of inertia, as well as its manifest expressions in lethargy, indifference and lassitude. Bringing Freud, Aulagnier, Winnicott and Green into conversation with Schopenhauer, Melville’s ‘Bartleby the Scrivener’, Perec’s A Man Asleep and Ed Ruscha’s ‘Liquid Words’ paintings, I will explore what happens when we think of psychic conflict as conditioned by a more primary (and paradoxical) drive to a zero state. And what bearing might a consideration of this zero state have on the malaise of our ‘24/7’ culture of permanent busyness and distraction.
Full programme to be published soon…
Ticket prices*
£60.00 in advance (£70.00 for tickets bought on the door)
£50.00 for Site members
£45.00 for Site trainees
(*lunch not included)
To book a place at this event, please download and complete booking form, payment can be made by cheque or via bank transfer (all details on booking form).
For more info, email siteenquiries2015@gmail.com
To book, please click on the link below:
Site booking form conference May 2015
