PARIS-USA
LACAN SEMINAR

Lacan’s Legacy:

Thirty years in the Lacanian orientation

Previous Events

The PARIS-USA Lacan Seminar follows on a series of seminars held in English in Paris since1989. Previous seminars have included the following:

• 1st Lacan Seminar in English: Paris, June, 1989: "Reading Seminar 1 and 2"

• 2nd Lacan Seminar in English: Paris, July, 1990: "Reading Seminar 11"

• Paris English Seminar 1: Paris, July, 2008: "Ordinary Psychosis"

• Paris English Seminar 2: Paris, May, 2009: "When the Cure Stops..."

• Paris-USA Lacan Seminar: Paris, 1 & 2 May, 2010: Entering Analysis"

• Paris-USA Lacan Seminar in London, April -1 -2011 The Clinic of the object
Theme of the Conference
Lacan’s Legacy
Nobody interprets psychoanalysis today according to the canons that prevailed previously.
– Course of J.-A. Miller, 26 March 2008
FRIDAY MORNING

9:30 OPENING AND WELCOME: Pr Maire Jaanus
10:00 INTRODUCTION : Pierre-Gilles Guéguen LACAN’S LEGACY
10:30 THE PSYCHOANALYST AS AN ANALYSAND
Chair Jean Pierre Klotz
MARIE-HÉLÈNE BROUSSE : Ever lasting Couch ?
PIERRE-GILLES GUÉGUEN : What cannot be said.
ÉRIC LAURENT : Lacan as analysand.
12:30 DISCUSSION
13:30 end of the morning session

FRIDAY AFTERNOON

15:00 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE NORM : BEYOND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX
Chair Josefina Ayerza
FABIAN NAPARSTEK : The humanized Father.
JEAN PIERRE KLOTZ : Lacan , the Symptom and the USA.
16:00 DISCUSSION
16:30 : BEYOND THE OEDIPUS
Chair Marie –Hélène Brousse
JOSEFINA AYERZA : There is no sexual relation.
NATALIE WULFING : From the Universal to the particular.
THOMAS SVOLOS : Jacques Lacan, Reader.
18:00 DISCUSSION
18:30 end of the afernoon session.

SATURDAY MORNING

9:30 FEMININITY BEYOND THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX
Chair Maria Cristina Aguirre
MARIE HÉLÈNE BROUSSE : Beyond Prince Charming and Pink swords.
10:30 DISCUSSION
11:00 THE HYPERMODERN FAMILY I
KJELL SOLEIM : What comes after the act ?
ALVIN HENRY : A second Mirror Stage
12:00 discussion
12:00 MALE HOMOSEXUALITIES
PIERRE-GILLES GUÉGUEN : Lights and Shadows on a case of gay bashing.
13:00 DISCUSSION
13:30 end of the morning session

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

15:00 THE HYPERMODERN FAMILY II
Chair Thomas Svolos
MARIA CRISTINA AGUIRRE : The end of and illusion ?
ALICIA ARENAS : Psychoanalysis is not an Utopia .
16:30 THE HYPERMODERN FAMILY III
PIERRE GILLES GUÉGUEN : Hypermodern families
ÉRIC LAURENT : The child as a delusional object
17:30 DISCUSSION
18:00 end of the Saturday afternoon session.

SUNDAY MORNING

9:00 THE REAL IS LAWLESS
Chair Alicia Arenas
ADRIAN PRICE : The Pivot of the Trope.
ALAN ROWAN : Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Mental Health.
FRANCOIS SAUVAGNAT : Psychoanalysis and neurosciences : Why merging them won’t do.
10 :30 DISCUSSION
11 :00 PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROSCIENCES
ERIC LAURENT : Against neuro-metaphors .
12:00 DISCUSSION
13:00 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND CONCLUSION
Pr MAIRE JAANUS
13:30 end of the Conference