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Lacan (mis)Reading Group
Aaron Godlaski, Ph.D.
Beginning Monday, March 30th @ 7pm
Location: 323 S Upper St, Lexington, KY 40507; hybrid
Jacques Lacan’s writing is often described in pejorative terms that discourage engagement. It frustrates the reader’s desire for mastery. But what if we allow misunderstanding, loosen our attachment to being the subject who is “supposed to know”, and consent to lack? This reading group invites participants to consider how Lacan’s positioning of the reader can inform and challenge our praxis as analysts and therapists.
Over nine weeks, we will work with three of Lacan’s Écrits, pairing them with Michael J. Miller’s Lacanian Psychotherapy, which offers a case-driven approach to experimenting with how Lacan’s ideas might take shape in therapeutic practice. We will begin with a feminist introduction by Jane Gallop, whose Reading Lacan argues that we read Lacan not to master his ideas, but to attend to what his writing does to us as readers, approaching misrecognition, speech, and desire as integral to the analytic encounter rather than problems to be resolved.
(mis)communicated by: Aaron Godlaski, PhD
To be (mis)informed, contact: aaron@aarongodlaski.com
Texts:
Miller, M. J. (2011). Lacanian Psychotherapy: Theory and practical applications. Routledge.
Bruce Fink’s translations available in Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English (2007), or Écrits: A Selection (2004), or can be provided as PDFs.
The Mirror Stage as Formative of the “I” Function as Revealed in Psychoanalysis
The Function of the Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis
The Instance of the Letter of the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud
Gallop’s from Reading Lacan (1987), chapter excerpt will be provided as a PDF.
Aprés-Coup by Jean Laplanche
Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program (APP)
The Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program is a two year post-graduate training program comprised of two components: weekly coursework and clinical consultation. The curriculum includes an introduction to historical and contemporary psychoanalytic theory and concepts, psychodynamic understandings of development and psychopathology, and a focused approach to technique regarding assessment and intervention. Additionally, students will participate in a weekly clinical conference.
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAPP)
The Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program provides participants with exposure to concepts that inform psychodynamic therapy with children and adolescents. The program includes an in-depth exposure to concepts from psychoanalytic understandings of development and psychopathology as they apply to children and adolescents. There are two weekly courses—one didactic course and one clinical conference. In order to obtain the maximal benefit, it is recommended that participants enroll in all four semesters of the program sequentially, along with weekly case consultation.
The Adult Training Program is a five year post-graduate training program comprised of three components: personal training analysis, treatment of three psychoanalytic patients, and a curriculum of study. Through weekly consultation, candidates observe how they integrate their personal analysis with the didactic and clinical work. The process assists in the development of each candidates unique capacity to do analytic work. The five year curriculum focuses on theories of development, psychopathology, clinical theories and case conferences.
