Escuela Freud Lacan de La Plata
Grita Institución Psicoanalítica
Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse
Cartels Constituants de l’Analyse Freudienne
Encuentro Clínico Lacaniano Asociación Psicoanalítica Río de la Plata
Mayéutica Institución Psicoanalítica
Escuela de Psicoanálisis Sigmund Freud-Rosario
Escuela Freudiana de la Argentina
Grupo de Psicoanálisis de Tucumán-Institución de formación Psicoanalítica
Encuentro Clínico Lacaniano Asociación Psicoanalítica Río de la Plata
Psychanalyse Actuelle
Trilce-Buenos Aires
Práxis Lacaniana Formação em Escola
Escuela Freudiana de Mar del Plata
Cercle Freudien
Associação Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre- APPOA
Lazos Institución Psicoanalítica de La Plata
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
[EN] Convergencia conference in Paris
MALAISE, CASTRATION, ALTERITY
May 16-17, 2025 (CLG/CEG Meeting 15th may)
Address: USIC, 18 rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris
What do we today call “castration”, what do we call “alterity”, and what are their implications for the malaise of our times?
The Other and the others – our fellows – are structurally necessary for our subjective constitution: there is no subject without its inscription in the field of the Other. The Other is part of us, and his voices speak to us and through us, unbeknownst to us. Voices of desire or love, but also of hatred and refusal.
The contradictions of our desire are expressed in our fantasies and symptoms, in a dialectic of alienation and separation. A baby expects its mother to relieve it of the impulses that agitate it. Children need their parents’ love and recognition to channel their desires. Adolescents and young people expect those of the opposite sex to support their sexual identification and share sublimations. Adults expect recognition at their work and within the family. We always expect others to relieve us of the irreducible dissatisfaction of our desire.
Unconscious desire is the desire of the Other, i.e., his lack of being, his castration, as such impossible to fill.
Today’s malaise has evolved since Freud’s or even Lacan’s time. In addition to the classic conflict between the repressed and the return of the repressed, we are increasingly faced with excesses of jouissance that cannot be resolved and call for a symbolic cut. The superego becomes much more sadistic and discharges itself much more violently.
Psychiatric diagnoses of borderline states, bipolarity, hyperactivity, autism and drug addiction are multiplying.
It’s worth noting that this growing power of jouissance only serves to exacerbate isolation and loneliness, in other words, the undermining of social bonds, and the difficulty of giving meaning to existence.
The capitalist discourse pushes people to act, with its typical feature: anonymity. Many individuals are now anguished by their identity (sexual, national, racial, etc.) and by the fact that they can’t find an answer to the question of their lack of being anywhere but in the imaginary.
Analytical discourse is opposed to all this. It is subversive because it gives the subject a voice to express his malaise and the contradictions of his desire. This can enable him to invent a unique solution, in his own name.
The aim of this symposium is to address this issue, which questions the absence or inconsistency of structuring limits for the psyche, both from the point of view of the diversity of its clinical effects and its current societal and political effects.
In its early days, psychoanalysis helped to free the individual from the weight of the stifling norms and prohibitions of bourgeois morality, and to advance individual freedoms, including those of minorities and women, Today, however, the situation has been completely reversed, as the civilizing prohibitions and the principle of temperance are being undermined by the ever-widening reach of globalized, predatory and standardizing capitalism, which abolishes all borders, all singularities and all differences, resulting in endless struggles and wars?
What place, including in language, for the division of the subject in a new world increasingly governed by artificial intelligence, the digital and the virtual? We look forward to seeing you in Paris in May to discuss these questions.
[en] Paris Conference 2025
MALAISE, CASTRATION, ALTERITY
– Information Update – March 23, 2025
We inform you that the online session will be replaced by a half-day session in face-to-face on Friday, May 16th in the afternoon.
A Wifi connection will be available on site, allowing participants to follow the text of the speeches in different languages, provided they have a tablet, laptop, etc.
Headsets will also be available for participants for the translation of the discussions.
Following the various comments we have received, CLF provides the following clarifications:
- All presentations will be institutional presentations, whether individual or
group, made by the representatives (delegates) of the associations. - In order to encourage time for exchanges with the auditory, the presentations will last 10 minutes (equivalent to a written text of about 1200 words; font: Arial, size 12 with line spacing of 1.15; document format: .pdf), and will be organized in thematic panels with 4 speakers each, lasting 1h30.
Fees:
CEG/CLG:
The institutional participation fee will be 60 USD.
COLLOQUIUM:
Institutional speakers: 80€ per speaker.
Public fee: 80€ for both days, 40€ for students.
Dates :
Thursday May 15 : CEG
Friday May 16 : face-to-face symposium
Saturday May 17 : face-to-face symposium
Location : USIC – 18 rue de Varenne – 75007 Paris
The deadline for applications is March 1, 2025.
Speeches, translated into 4 languages (French, Spanish, Brazilian, English), must be submitted by April 20, 2025, at the latest.
A single e-mail address for all correspondence: convergencia-paris-2025@outlook.com
The conference website https://convergencia-paris-2025.org/ will be accessible from February 15th with all the necessary information.