Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Jamieson Webster

(New York, NY)

Friday, December 6, 2024

The Most Hysterical Psychoanalyst

7-9pm (CST)

Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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Zoom

About the presentation:  In order to introduce Lacan’s thinking on neurosis, how it takes shape through Freud, I will focus on hysteria and its place of prominence in his system. Lacan lauds hysteria as the neurosis in direct dialog with a given historical moment, shifting with the dominant discourse, and thus teaching the psychoanalyst where we are in the struggle between neurosis and civilization. He returned to the case of Dora throughout his seminars to refine his understanding of hysteria. He saw analysis as the progressive “hystericization” of the patient and even depicted himself as a hysteric attempting to teach the psychoanalysts.

Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the author of Disorganisation & Sex (Divided, 2022), The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2011) and Conversion Disorder (Columbia University Press, 2018); she also co-wrote, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon, 2013). She contributes regularly to Artforum, The New York Times and the New York Review of Books.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to understand Lacan’s Reading of Freud’s Dora Case

Participants will be able to understand how Lacan worked with Dora over twenty years.

This is an Intermediate Level of Presentation.

Fees

CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

Continuing Education

This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by December 5, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Lacan, J. (1954–1955). Seminar: Book II. The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, transl. A. Sheridan. New York: Norton,1991.

Lacan, J. (1955–1956). Seminar: Book III. The Psychoses, transl. R. Grigg).New York: Norton, 1993.

Lacan, J. (1956–1957). Seminar: Book IV. The Object Relation, transl. A.R.Price. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2020.

Lacan, J. (1957–1958). Seminar: Book V. Formations of the Unconscious,transl. R. Grigg. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017.

Lacan, J. (1962–1963). Seminar: Book X. Anxiety, transl. A.R. Price. Malden,MA: Polity Press, 2014.

Lacan, J. (1966). Écrits, transl. B. Fink. New York: Norton, 2007.

Lacan, J. (1969–1970). Seminar: Book XVII. The Other Side of Psychoanalysis,

transl. R. Grigg. New York: Norton, 2007.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Zak Mucha, LCSW, Alan Levy, PhD,  

Toula Kourliouros Kalven.

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.