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Last year in October, we conducted our first Linking Seminar with Tom Svolos. Today, I am pleased to announce that we will continue the tradition of gathering to learn about and discuss the practice of psychoanalysis with a second Linking Seminar!

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Linking Seminar | 2023

Topic: Pure and Applied Psychoanalysis // Psychotherapy

Linking Seminar II

Saturday, 11/11/2023

Count Down to the Event:

Early Registration for $65.00 is open till 9/24

What to Expect:

Juan-Felipe Arango -- (AP), (WAP, (NLS), (NEL).

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Special Guest | Juan-Felipe Arango

President of the Lacanian Compass, Member of the NLS, NEL, & WAP, (AP)

This year's speaker will be the Lacanian Compass President, Juan-Felipe Arango. Juan holds a BA in psychology from the University of Antioquia in Columbia and a DEA in psychoanalysis from the University of Paris VIII. He is a practicing analyst (AP) in Miami. In addition to his leadership role in the Lacanian Compass, Juan is a member of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP), the New Lacanian School (NLS), and the Nueva Escuela Lacaniana (NEL).

Juan will present a theoretical seminar with a Q&A session in the morning. In addition, Juan will facilitate a discussion of two clinical cases in the afternoon.

Location:

This year, the seminar will take place at 1125 Franklin Street, Downers Grove, IL 60515.

This venue will have ample parking, is a short (3-5 minute) walk from the Main Street Downers Grove Metra Station, and has many places nearby to get food or coffee during the lunch break and/or if people want to hang out and socialize after the event.

A three-minute walk from the train station!

Lots of places to eat, get coffee, and hang out after the event.

There is even an old-style movie theater and bowling alley if that's your thing.

Registration & Cost:

Early registration is open from 8/24 to 9/24 at a cost of $65.00. Starting on 9/25, the registration cost will increase to $80.00. All the money raised via registration will be used to support the cost of the event.

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To Prepare / Syllabus:

To prepare for the seminar, it would be a good idea to become familiar with the orienting texts below.

The Direction of the Treatment and the Principles of its Power

By Jacques Lacan

Chapter 22 in the Écrits (pp. 445-488).

A copy of the Écrits can be purchased via Amazon for about $30.00

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Analysis Laid Bare

By Jacques-Alain Miller

One of the orienting texts we plan to use for the seminar is Analysis Laid Bare.

The Lacanian Press recently published this text and can be purchased via Amazon for $20.00

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Pure Psychoanalysis, Applied Psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy

By Jacques-Alain Miller

Jacques-Alain Miller gave this lecture on the differences and similarities between the two different forms psychoanalysis can take and various forms of psychotherapy.

This text can be accessed online for free.

Read the Article Online

Guiding Principles for any Psychoanalytic Act

by Éric Laurent

A short text where Laurent describes eight distinct but related principles involved in any psychoanalytic act.