Transmission Statement

Sharpening the practice of Lacanian analysis through open inquiry, critical debate, and a topological construction of its theory.
 
We are not an institute  for the production of doctors and patients/clients, but an association for the production of analysis.
 
We are an association where not only analysts, but analysands and nonanalysts work to construct a theory that establishes the organization of the association.

A specific consultation, work-groups, seminars, and a certification in Lacanian analysis now exist in the United States.

Requests for more information are received by the secretary, then referred to the analysts currently working with P.L.A.C.E. Connected information on seminars, conferences, cartels, training analysis, and internships is also available.

Organizational History

P.L.A.C.E. was founded in January of 1998. We are a nonprofit 501c3 governed by a board of directors and trustees according to the statutes set by the state of California. P.L.A.C.E. supports itself on the contributions, grants, and endowments from those individuals and foundations concerned with creating a progress in psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Now accepting registration for 2010-2011.

Deadline Sept. 10, 2010.

2) New applicants must complete the application form below (deadline is January 15th for early registration)

New Article Update

A Review of the recent conference of Badiou and Zizek

Lacan In The New Market Place Of Knowledge/ by Scully Maywood

CURRENT EVENTS

(1) Registration For Summer 2010 Immersion: Analytic Introduction To Knot Theory

Frequency: Saturdays: July 17, 24, 31 to Aug. 14, 21, 28

Duration: 3 hrs. per class

Open To Public and those currently enrolled in the Sclinic.

For Details See Open House on Interface Site:PLACE INTERFACE

Cost: $750.

Location: Santa Monica

Contact: Secretary /Phone or Email

(2) Registration For 2010 Fall Sclinic: Oct 2, 2010

For Details See Open House on Interface Site:PLACE INTERFACE

Location: Santa Monica

Contact: Secretary /Phone or Email

(3) 12:00-3:00 / Saturday - July 10, 2010 - General Assembly

(Attendance limited to those currently participating in the Sclinic)

Past Events

San Francisco March 18 -21, 2010

Lutecium Psychoanalytic
Presents March 18 – March 21, 2010

Please join us for a series of exciting events including:
Clinical Case Conference
Didactic Seminar on Topology and Psychoanalysis:

For additional Information visit
www.lutecium.us
Talk on Psychoanalysis and Poetics
Writing Group "Letters" Presentations and Open House
Film Presentation

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Thursday, March 18, 6pm - 8pm, Flood Building, 870 Market St., San Francisco
Clinical Case Conference
with Jacques Siboni, M.D.


Friday, March 19, 6pm - 8pm, 870 Market St., San Francisco
Psychoanalysis and Poetics: “On the Presence of Absence”
with David Marriott, Ph.D.


Friday, March 19, 8pm - 10pm, Flood Building, 870 Market St., San Francisco
Writing Group “Letters” Presentations and Open House
with Helen Klonaris, Nina Schnall, P. Segal, Rebecca Bauknight,
David Marriott, & Kristopher Lichtanski


Saturday, March 20, 12pm - 5pm, Hobart Building, 582 Market St., San Francisco
Film Event: J. Campion's "In the Cut" & Short Film "The Folly of the Wise" by Christina Corfield
with Eric Essman, M.A., Diane Borden, Ph.D., Rebecca Bauknight, Ph.D.
Cynthia Sailers, M.A., MFA, Jacques Siboni, M.D., & Mr. X (a "mystery" discussant)


Sunday, March 21, 12pm - 5pm, Flood Building, 870 Market St., San Francisco
Didactic Seminar: Psychoanalysis and Topology
with Robert Groome and Jacques Siboni, M.D.

For additional information visit:

http://www.lutecium.us/

Other Events:

Courses: Re-orientation to Lacanian Analysis

New 2010 Winter Course: Topology and Psychoanalysis II–

Resistances To Analytic Theory

Starting Date-Ending Date: February, 27, 2010 to May 29, 2010.

Time: 12:00 noon on the last Saturday of every month. Duration: 2-3 hours Place: Santa Monica Session/Year: Winter 2010 Instructor(s): Robert Groome and Guest Speakers Email address: res1d6qq@verizon.net Phone: 310-393-1682 Course Length: 20 weeks Contact Hours: 15 hours Texts: Selected texts of Freud and Lacan (precise texts to be announced) Course Prerequisites: Application Form/ Interview

Since Lacan's return to Freud it is no longer possible to assume an analytic practice and theory in the same way. Rather than claiming to go beyond Freud in a neo- or post-Freudian therapy, or rejecting analytic theory altogether as 'non-science', it is necessary to isolate what analysis comes to bear upon. One perilous way to avoid an act of foundation is to read Freud speculatively: that is to say, to remain within the transfers of analysis – its psycho-cultural panache, its interpersonal relations, therapeutic commerce and educative institutionalization – without founding its theory. For if the motor of analysis is the transfer, this is not to say that being in a transfer guarantees that analysis has effectively taken place. Indeed, one may remain a very long time in an analytic transfer without the least bit of analysis (see Freud's Analysis Terminable and Interminable). What our course and intervention aims to account for is how both a progress in the cure and analysis effectively takes place not in an ad hoc manipulation of the transfer, but in a theory that comes to bear on the truth of its method. Freud discovered that the unconscious is produced in a double lecture in the sense that any writing implies an equivocation of pronunciation that requires a method of deciphering similar to that used by Champollion to decipher the Rosetta Stone. Since the practice of an analytic theory implies this method, the current day resistance to theory is not something new or limited to the psychotechnician, but is nothing other than a resistance to reading and writing that is witnessed both clinically in the current rise of autism and artistically in the current replacement of the text by spectacle. Our course shows how the contemporary topological clinic was introduced by Lacan as a way to return to what is systematically bypassed by the modern psychotherapies: the place of reading and writing theory in the analytic cure.

 

6-6-09: Summer Intensive: Introduction to a theory of knots - Every Saturday until end of July.

3-1-09: Second Local Meeting of School/Clinic of PLACE: Re-orientation -

What is the ruse of trying to teach psychoanalysis? How does the attempt to educate someone in psychoanalysis actually form a barrier to its practice and theory? Can – or should – the flow of information in analysis be taken for granted as in the teacher/student relation? In not putting a director or master as the detainer of knowledge of a school, must a transmission devolve into chaos? Or can we introduce the construction of an object and nonlegislative law to stabilize the field? The aim of our second local meeting aims to respond to such questions as a preliminary to any transmission of the theory and practice of analysis for the Winter semester 2009.

1-31-09: First Local Meeting of the School/Clinic of PLACE:

To open an analytic School/Clinic is the desire to establish a connection – or place of transmission – for analysis since it can neither be guaranteed by a university degree nor the recognition of an institutionalization. Just as what inscribes an act can not be justified by a framework for technicization and codification, a desire for the transmission of analysis can not be accomplished through the canonization of psychotherapy or its profession. Or rather all of this can happen, but it is nothing new and definitely not psychoanalytic as it smacks of liberal theology and ritualized sects.  But what is worse is the tendency of such institutionalilzations to treat whole public sectors as 'ill', which not only bypasses the reality of the mental , but reduces the individual's symptom, delirium, or fantasy to something that is only imaginary and that only pertains to something real to the extent it is submitted to passively as biology or genetics. Such a banal definition of mentality avoids or even prohibits an analytic theory and practice that would want to establish a reality and causality of the mental beyond the confines of an administrative, scientific, or religious codification.  In short, the conflicts and ravages of everyday life call for an effort of civilization that is not to be confused with an effect of institutionalization. Our introduction of the School/Clinic of PLACE is precisely such an effort in so far as it takes its bearings from Lacan's return to Freud, while making room for the progress that its adherents have made on their own.

Guest inscriptions and inquiries accepted at:

Psychoanalysis Los Angeles California Extension Interface

1-15-09: Guest pass to site courses during January and February.

Login as guest at Interface, go to:

Courses: Re-orientation to Lacanian Analysis

http://topoi.net/school-clinic.html