Two Wednesdays a Month
7:00pm-8:30pm
Begins September 7, 2011
This Seminar Series will focus on the teachings of Jacques Lacan. We will aim to discuss the main ideas of Freud and Lacan and their application to broader clinical, social, and cultural issues.
The Lacan Seminar Series will closely review the main concepts in psychoanalysis, following Freud in both his clinical and theoretical work and discussing it in parallel with Lacan’s contributions and reformulations.
How does the Lacanian practice of psychoanalysis differ from other forms of analysis and psychotherapy that are so pervasive in our culture? Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis who refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, literature, art, queer theory, etc. Advocating a “return to Freud,” by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud’s works, Lacan stressed the idea that the unconscious functions “like a language.”
The reading of Lacan’s work is often difficult because of his idiosyncratic developments of psychoanalysis. The main task of the Seminar Series will be to bring fresh and accessible perspectives to the work of this formidable and influential thinker. It is our belief that an intellectual cultural exchange fosters a greater understanding of contemporary times and its impact on our work as clinicians. Within the frame of the Seminar Series we will have the opportunity to discuss the place that psychoanalysis has in our contemporary discourse and to nourish curiosity, passion, and vitality about human life in its singularity.
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
- Describe the main concepts of the Lacanian contribution to psychoanalysis.
- Define the vocabulary with which each of Lacan’s ideas are expressed in his teachings.
- Identify the implications of Lacan’s contributions to clinical practice.
Who Should Attend
The workshop is intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, licensed professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, physicians, medical students, and other graduate students.
Presenter
Norma Schwartz completed her studies in psychology in Argentina in 1966 and started a practice as a psychoanalyst immediately thereafter. She emigrated to Spain in 1976 where she continued her practice until 1994 when she came to the USA. Since the beginning of her clinical practice, she has incorporated Lacanian thinking about the way in which psychoanalysis must be practiced, studied, and transmitted. The works and teachings of Jacques Lacan have been an ongoing passion of hers.
Norma Schwartz has led a Study Group on Lacan under the sponsorship of the Washington School of Psychiatry since 2002.
Time and location
The conference will take place at the Washington School of Psychiatry on two Wednesdays a month from 7:00pm to 8:30pm. Seminar dates will be September 7, 21, October 5, 19, November 2, 18, 30, December 7, 21, January 11, 25, February 1, 15, 29, March 14, 28, April 11, 25, May 9, 23, and June 6, 20.
Fee and CE/CME Credits
Fee-$810
CE/CME Credits—18
Cancellations and Refunds
Refunds will be made for cancellations received at the School office in writing at least 10 days before the conference date and are subject to a non- refundable administrative fee of $50.
Disclosure of Commercial Support and the Unlabeled use of a commercial product. No member of the planning committee and no member of the faculty for this event have a financial interest or other relationship with any commecial product(s) discussed in this educational presentation.