This UCL Psychoanalysis Unit online conference reintegrates the contributions of the Other French school into ‘classical’ psychoanalysis
About
Jacques Lacan: Oui ou non?
Although French psychoanalysis has become enormously popular internationally, the Anglophone traditions have tended to focus on the works of psychoanalysts who ultimately rejected Lacan despite being influenced by him, such as André Green, Jean Laplanche and Didier Anzieu. These writers’ contributions are founded on a ‘non’ to Lacan, even though they sometimes borrowed from him without acknowledgement, or proposed alternative versions of themes he invented.
However, another psychoanalytic tradition within France, less familiar to Anglophone colleagues, built upon rather than rejecting Lacan’s theories of the Real, Symbolic and Imaginary realms, the Other, the paternal metaphor, the signifying chain, the divided subject, desire and lack. Analysts working in this tradition made important advances in theories of intersubjectivity, child development, clinical practice and applied psychoanalysis.
This conference will explore the potential of reintegrating the contributions of this Other French school into ‘classical’ psychoanalysis to strengthen and broaden our collective understanding of the human psyche, or after Lacan, the parl’être. We will consider Francoise Dolto’s concept of The Castrations, Jean Berges’s model of Transitivism, Charles Melman’s New Psychic Economy and Marcel Czermack on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses.
Speakers and Chairs
Lionel Bailly (British Psychoanalytical Society, Association Lacanienne Internationale, North East London NHS Foundation Trust, University College London)
Sharmini Bailly (British Psychoanalytical Society, and British Psychotherapy Foundation)
Marika Bergès Bounes (Association Lacanienne Internationale)
Nicolas Dissez (Maison de Santé d’Epinay-sur-Seine, and Ecole Psychanalytique de Sainte-Anne)
Thierry Roth (Association Lacanienne Internationale)
Helen Sheehan (Milltown Lacanian Association (M.L.A), and Association Lacanienne Internationale)
Recordings
After the event a recording of the conference will be available to registered participants (on request) for 4 weeks.
Further Information
Online only via Zoom. Further information including joining instructions will be circulated one week ahead of the event.
If you have any queries, please contact us at events.psychoanalysis@ucl.ac.uk
Suggested Reading List
Jean Berges and Gabriel Balbo, An essay on transitivism, in The Lacan Tradition, David Lichtenstein, Lionel Bailly, Sharmini Bailly Eds, Routledge, London, 2018, p123-136.
Marcel Czermak, Patronymies – considerations cliniques sur les psychoses, Eres, 2012.
Francoise Dolto, The unconscious body image, Routledge, London, 2022, introduction by Sharmini Bailly, p1-7
Charles Melman, A new psychic economy, in The Lacan Tradition, David Lichtenstein, Lionel Bailly, Sharmini Bailly Eds, Routledge, London, 2018, p227-234
