Lacan’s Early and Later Work on Love
**PACIFIC TIME**: December 14, 2024, 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
All times listed are in Pacific Time (PT) unless otherwise noted.
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NCP Presents:
Lacan’s Early and Later Work on Love
What do we mean by the simple word "love"? Do we mean passion? Affection? Lust? Attachment? Friendship? And how could love be so many different things to different people, and even to one person at many different times?
Psychoanalysts have long been divided over the question of whether to condemn love as a form of self-deception or as the greatest of all psychical accomplishments. The situation becomes far more complex when, instead of simply giving love the thumbs-up or thumbs-down, we raise the thorny question, “What is Love?” But an all-encompassing theory of love is not possible and probably not even desirable! Instead, we will develop further a deeper appreciation for the complexity of the human experience of love and passion, relying on Lacan’s registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real.
“Love is giving what you don’t have.”
This claim by Lacan will be explored from several perspectives, as will the notion that in love, we don’t simply give what we don’t have; we love other people for what they don’t have. We love them for their foibles, failings, defects, inabilities, and insecurities. In a word, we love them, not in spite of their warts, but because of their warts. Time permitting, Lacan’s later glosses on love, including smoldering and “hainamoration," will be laid out.
Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
- Explain what is meant by Lacan’s thesis, “love is giving what you don’t have”
- Summarize the many facets of what we mean by the word “love”
- Describe three different ways Lacan thinks about love, from the standpoints of the three registers of the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real
- Discuss how love involves loving "the partner’s 'warts’" (or flaws or defects)
- Compare the differences between love, desire, and jouissance
- Explain why Freud says it is impossible to “love thy neighbor”
- Explain three reasons, according to Freud and Lacan, why we distrust love on the one hand and idealize it on the other
There will be a 90-minute break for lunch from 11:45 am – 1:15 pm. (If attending in person, a list of area restaurants will be available.)
PRESENTERS:
Bruce Fink, PhD, is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He trained as a psychoanalyst in France and is a member of the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne in Paris. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris, VIII (Saint-Denis). He served as a Professor of Psychology from 1993 to 2013 at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. He now lives in France. He is the author of nine books on Lacan.
Aranye Fradenburg Joy, PhD, is a Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara; Research Psychoanalyst; Dean of the Institute, New Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Joy holds a PhD in Psychoanalysis and has published extensively on the subjects of love and desire.
Richard Tuch, MD, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Center of California. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles; former Dean, New Center for Psychoanalysis; former Head of the Scholarship Section of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education, American Psychoanalytic Association; and presently serving on the board of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
Christopher Walling, PsyD, MBA, FABP, is a licensed clinical psychologist, board-certified psychoanalyst, and an active leader in the bio-behavioral sciences. Dr. Walling is Associate Professor in the Department of Research Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis, a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association, and a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis where he serves as Faculty Chair in the Adult Psychoanalytic Training program. Dr. Walling also serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender & Sexuality and is a Fellow of the Kinsey Institute.
COORDINATED BY: Paulene Popek, PhD, Aranye Fradenburg Joy, PhD
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NCP Members registration $128 | General registration $160 | Candidates & Students $95
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