Lacanian Clinical Practice — Dream, Symptom, Fantasy: a Clinical Cases Seminar

Lacanian Clinical Practice, Dream, Symptom, Fantasy:  a Clinical Cases Seminar

The logic and experience of this seminar proposes and assumes a methodology and a praxis: our reading of Freud focuses on the ways in which Lacan’s teaching in his seminar and writing in the Écrits transmits a savoir that orients clinical practice insofar as it welcomes the dream, symptom and unconscious formations as they break through as representative of  a censored unconscious.  We begin with the question of how the position of the analyst in Lacanian clinical practice creates a frame for the work of the unconscious as it manifests in the speech of the analysand.

As participants in the seminar present their cases, our work will be oriented by moments in which unconscious formations make a rupture in the ego’s discourse, and articulate the position of the subject of the unconscious in relation to desire and jouissance.

Readings:

Freud, S. (1900).  The Interpretations of Dreams, Volume IV, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

Freud, S (1917). “The Sense of the Symptom,” Volume XI, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.

Lacan, J. (1991).  The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book II, The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954-1955.  Trans. Sylvana Tomaselli.  New York:  Norton.

Lacan, J.  (2006). “The Direction of the Treatment and the Principle of its Power,” Écrits, (2006). Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: Norton.

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Dates and times: second and fourth Tuesdays of the month, 14 October 2025 through 9 June 2026, 7–8:20pm Pacific Time. Break from December until classes resume January 13; no class April 8; classes resume April 22.

Fee: $40 per meeting or School Tuition.

Contact: Christopher Meyer, PhD; (323) 930-9662; cmeyerwoeswar@gmail.com.