What is Psychoanalysis?

What is Psychoanalysis?

What is psychoanalysis: the inquiry could echo the response “It is what it is,” yet this is an answer equalling the reply of a god, which psychoanalysis is not, neither is a panacea representing a tyrannical oath promising to cure one’s suffering with a special modus operandi- techniques are the weapons of those who cannot understand freedom and responsibility, and with whom philanthropy collects a dreadful meaning; and, within these musical notes of thought, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, any decent psychoanalysis cored on those ethics, in general, represents the human right to speak up, to form one’s own ways of life- and death. From the moment one attempts, or, even worst, to answer that question – What is psychoanalysis – in the formula of one statement for the minds of all, with the confidence of the dictator, one does practise at the very best case scenario a bad psychotherapy- for, psychoanalysis, is something created with each one of the analysands, as much as the analyst who is gratified to lack of memory so to accommodate that novel desire by the subject of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis cannot be but a plasmatic breathing liberty within a geometry of motion, within the process of which, a subject creates the soil for its own idiomatic tongue: that is why it is an enigma, not to be answered but to be formed, which, among other things, paints the beauty and the plurality of human subjectivity. A subject begins by conversing the speech into silence.

Languages

Psychoanalytic treatments and consultation in English or Greek.

London Office

The psychoanalytic practice is located in London at the following address, and opposite the British Museum:

91 Great Russell Street

Bloomsbury

London

WC1B 3PS

 

On the Symptom

Symptoms treated by Psychoanalysis: Life.

Discontents- that is a symptom, which makes a subject bear an incomparable weight, in one way or another. Unique individuals have unique ways of discontent although the outcome- filtered in the cultural discourse- may appear the same in the violent forms of grouping, turning what ought to be private into something indiscriminate out of context with one’s personal experience as if the subject itself were the symptom to a brilliant theory of an illness. In Lacanian orientation each voice is inimitable, and each symptom is a subject, an outcome of the body’s exposure to language beyond the general formulations of cause and effect- this is the affect of a cause, which, in time, has shaped the body into a discursive one: in fact, not one but another one.

What is the Oedipus myth, if not the structuring of the question “What does it mean to be a human?” a question that outshines the illuminations of both biology and cognition- in fact, and, to be defined: it is a different biology: for biology means the word of life; if it is more apposite, life speaks. Although the word analysis relates to destruction, which is, breaking down into the smallest agencies, it is apropos to describe it as creation, a formation, one that Lacan utter as the direction for the formation of analysts as well, not in mass production but as one by one. In this manner each one’s symptom exists- beyond the statistical silence of individuality, but one by one, dissimilar.

 

The only certainty being one’s anxieties, manifested through a number of symptoms, only to be categorized into a group of syndromes and such we tend to become: yes, if this is the declaration of a manifesto equal to the ethical guiding principles of a slave. Subjects’ symptoms are the results of a discourse that has marked the entrance of their bodies within the social discourse, and the rebellion towards the demand of subjection, not subjectivity, is the topology of the indication of the symptom, which is, faithfully to the steps of the act, the instant of the subject’s next performance. The entrance into analysis, or, better stated, the crossing towards this path happens not because of the violence of the symptom but because of the symptom’s malfunction, or, if it is favored, the subtraction of enjoyment from the indication of agony, with gratification- one it static: panic attacks, anorexia, boredom, repetition of failed relationships and incidents- no, these do not need cognition because it is their cognition that brings about their failure, doomed into a system of mastery between ideal goal and disillusionment.

 

We have rushed too much, so much that we have forgotten that speech, as much as in the myth of Oedipus, has been the marking and seminal reference to one’s destiny, written yes but not ours and certainly not the only form of writing- for, when analysand read they actually sculpt: a novel truth. The hastening towards an ideal led to the loss of a place, not a place to bring to a standstill, but, on the contrary, one from where we choose our departures. When a subject reaches that elastic point of departure, psychoanalysis is, does not become, only a moment. No more than an act.

Contact Details

For Psychoanalysis at the London office, you can use the following contact details:

Phone number: 02032396979

Email: petrospatounas@freudianletter.com

On Psychoanalysis’ Theory

On the Theory of Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis does not exist- it is not solid; it is oriented until it is dissolved again: as much as the analyst; this orientation is the other side of Lamella. In the beginning there is the deed- one that it is not without speech, a tongue that stutters its letters and hesitates when it encounters its desire, yet igniting the proposition of inflowing into analysis; it is accompanied by the dissatisfaction and questions that do possess their question marks; this is the ingress into analysis, into what has been until that moment without time, not because it has not been calculated but because it was infinite.

 

Many One could refer to a method, an old one, out of use- yet how can free speech be out of use: it is, when one is somehow dead, or, a mere Master attributing demands to its own echo. Lacanian Psychoanalysis does not refer to a system, neither to magic- perhaps we could, if we think of the authority of words to shape our lives; only in this sense. Psychoanalysis is not an application, neither a technique or a secret knowledge applied on a subject’s life experience- it is not even about clichés we have been exposed to throughout the decades after Freud’s discovery of the Unconscious; and certainly, it is not about being an “instead of.”

 

It is in itself, not what it is, but, what it becomes, and with each analysand the testimony is altered. Itself, it is an occurrence through which a subject constructs, or reconstructs in a different fashion, not memories, but the points of location through which subjectivity, that is, no more than being a person, is hearted: one can murmur a different kind of time, one counted with heart beats, and yet again one is to form a question. What makes a heart beat- this is not a riddle towards a biologist, for, when the subject suffering from anorexia enters analysis, what we are ethical into addressing is not the imaginary skeletal body but the obesity in the mirror- from this does the subject in question suffers. That is the geometry of motion of psychoanalysis and its flowing place within civilization.

Links to Freudian Psychoanalysis

These are a few links to other websites related to Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis:

 

LACANIAN FORUM

A Forum for transmission of psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation, in London, UK.

 

LACANIANS IN PRAXIS

Lacanians In Praxis is a website for various Lacanian psychoanalysts offering psychoanalytic treatments, mainly in different areas of London.

 

THE SCHOOL OF THE FREUDIAN LETTER

The School of the Freudian Letter is a school of analysands dedicated in the formation of analysts and desiring subjects.

 

Cyprus Society of the SFL

The website of the Cyprus Society of the SFL.

 

LACANONLINE.COM

LacanOnline.com is a site for exploring psychoanalysis through the work of Jacques Lacan.

 

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On the Ex-Ascesis of the Nirvana Principle

“Then I saw another beast that rose out of the earth: it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon:” Feminine jouissance is an epicene direction of the ethic of the geometry of the kinesis itself- an effeminated return of the psychoanalyst to the world asking, now, different questions, to that which is the scene of the Real, not perversion but reversion of the object of the drive and the object causing that desire in question, which is between two telluric grounds: and he who analyses with musicality, avowedly been seraphic devout to Freud’s timelessness of the unconscious and to the amaranthine of its faculty, do so by his paraphernalia and a singular apparatus that is a phallus itself- such a process is not Freudian in ethic and unquestionably not an Ex-ascesis: it shall not be called an analysis: lo and behold of such analysts who still measure the salamander’s tail in centimeters.

 

“For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work, but only until the one who now restrains it is removed:” And, where the subject in the royal combat of ex-instance, and of the monotonic sound of a voice hoisting the enchantment of structure, struggles with the signifiers’ repression and the Real of his desire- a no-meaning but a letter’s ability to notion, not only witching a discourse that is of the Other- the mandate to a desiring subject-matter is this: do not listen to those father confessors of an unfaithful longing, saying, that nothing can be said about the Real because the Real is the Ethic, for, the responsibility of the psychoanalytic Ascesis requires that psychoanalysts should, unless they crease their hands and dedicate the offer of endowment to a discipline of a diverse rogation· and, when you encounter the object, do not shroud it but make a contribution of your being to its caressing with the words of he who has returned with new questions, until that, that which is an imaginary aim and object becomes a Real source for the love of silence, for it is there that the Verbificated Subject of the unconscious acts: it is this: that he who did not experience the indomitable hostility and Energeia of life soaks a speech, to converse for that which cannot be said- a joker would christen this as an irony in case an impostor could giggle without enjoying the astounding of the Other: and yet, it is not truly funny· for, that which cannot be said, indeed, is an unmasked alphabet for he who cannot read the repressed ethic with precision: the silence of that which cannot be said is not a kingdom come for him who has already spoken∙ he who knows how to Act, Acts- and the analyst whose symptom has not been beaten by the toxic capacity of life cannot analyze with accuracy· it is those who address hunger with a filled stomach and ask their masters How do I encounter that which cannot be said, only to receive the retort that this riddle of such a stumble upon is to advocate the talking: indeed, it is true when one does not know what is an Act- of faith.

 

“Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against the rider on the horse and against his army:” For, the scene and the world are Asceses themselves, one after the other yet not wrinkled to a diameter: and when the Voice and the spell descried of their the source, the Voice is such for the curse of the signifier, with he who has returned from the Principle which is Nirvana and not pleasure, the returned of the repressed ethic of desire, of that which is the Ousia of psychoanalysis, and the, when, the Verb brings to the world, from the scene, negativising the amount of the phallus and the ways analysts calculate the distance, end to end, of a salamander’s appendage, the ethic and destiny of the scene with the oblige of the drive- and yet subtracted from its object and having its source devoiced of the body- a kenosis by all means equaling poetry, no other art: the real is that which is symbolized in the Aether∙ a signifying symbioses of the discourse, the body, the Other, not of the Apeiron: and if that schizophrenic, him, him of the psychotic structure whom the analysts mistakenly are urged to speak of as ordinary and are advised to look for other cryptograms because they cannot read the ways of foreclosure, trapped within the symptoms’ ways after all, because their ears have been deafened to appreciate the ways of the Letters, seems to be dancing in an obsessive holy ceremony, under the pressure to finish Nothing∙ it is so, the jester has said, because one’s earlobes’ wax renders him inoperative to perceive the motion of the Everything: that, this analysand, is not finishing Nothing but attempts to start the Everything· such are the traditions of the death drive, absolute and further than the pleasure principle, because the Αρχή, that which an apologist may entitle as the Ethic, has not been sculpted: this subject attempts to furnish the Apeiron with a foundation, a creation, for only in that pencil case he would encompass the change to silhouette the brea-d-th of the Ethic: the Lung-uage is not static: neither imaginary, because identifications are condensations of the signifiers whilst painting the image∙ the language organ, of that reckless colorless green ideas, is truly a Lunguage Organ: and it is not the Phallus.

 

“The son of destruction, who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or religion, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God:” And because correctly the letter is placed, not in the rest of the object but to the Kinesis of that which is curtained by the object- the Act of desire and not its mere articulation: the act can only grasp the same geography of kinesis and the creation is the comportment by which the subject’s penitentiary is zeroed, for, that is the phenomenological of that which is named and envelopes the Ousia within the signifier sacrificing desire∙ and for such a creation, naming is not enough: naming is the shenanigan of a somnolent God whose object does not revisit the world with new questions from the Nirvana of his No-Body enjoyment· behold, for the articulation of a truth in psychoanalysis, one that does not involve the Act, is the bertha of that truth: desire cannot exist without the Act and the subject of the unconscious cannot exist without the verb.

 

“And I saw three foul spirits like frogs coming from the mouth of the dragon, from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet:” and such, it is exemplified, because the cause and effect perfects the icon of the imaginary. and yet is a stasis: and, when the abyss ascribing the e-xpelled and hypothetical circumspection of the Other, be that of the object or the function of the other as the optic signification of the world, the subject’s desire is a donation from the Nirvana, which is the motion, of the scene to the world that is of the comic anecdote, laughing at the seven-heated beast, who is of an apocalypse but itself cannot reveal whatever thing, that, that moment is when the Antichrist of time, an embodiment of a Sadducee, bothers itself with the riddle of the chicken and the egg, a true evil to the synchronicity of life and of the Letter- an unfaithful of a malevolence natural history who secretly believes in the order of time and morasses, that, for one to become an analyst something from his ancient times’ experience ought to be the cause of this effect: a foolhardy impostor by all means∙ and, the impostor cannot hear that the scripture’s letters, enclosed within the signifiers, voice that no good has ever came from those whose ethic is imaginary- phallic in its nature- insisting that for an analyst there ought to be something from his past experience and signifiers excusing and answering the why this subject wants to practice psychoanalysis: these hypocrites who are not even actors, who errand an idyllic romance for psychoanalysis, themselves finding irresistible the signifiers of industrializing Freud, judge their reliance to the One analyst whose symptom becomes an principle- that is not how the supplication functions, neither sublimation, and undoubtedly the doorstep of the act has put up chains for them· they are not proficient of passing through the ‘I’ of the need-le: Again, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God– for, this is the Antichrist of time with a cause and effect- no Freudian: it is not something but Everything in ones’ experience because the Sinthome derives not ex nihilo neither from a point that is a sign, but ex Apeiron- from an Ex-Ascesis∙ and, regarding time, we could say somehting funny about synchronicity without cause and effect because the drive’s object becomes a source: and for that, a subject needs honesty: but the impostors cannot accept it, as they are in search to create a sort of a sacred game.

 

“And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever:” and let us not write about impetration but of interpretation: that which ought not to serve the military service of a quarantine to the points of Kinesis∙ it is then, and only then, that we can articulate that the era of interpretation is over- if the Kinesis has becomes static- for it is not the drive that moves through the signifiers of a discourse, itself stabilized within and surrounded by the signifiers’ repetition, but the object, since the Voice and the spell, and the disability to not-not named the Ousia because a named Ousia becomes a god or an Orgone and then detached from the world by staging a scene of its own, a Disavowal of responsibility and a castle of enjoyment: privation’s venture cannot cope with the Alien but with the Other or the Same: thus the harmony of the spell is encountered by the science of Poetry and not the art of science, for, the returned of the repressed is the voice of desire and the ethic of the real: the real is the ethic: from the spell of language to the voice of lung-uage, given that the Άρχομαι του Λογου is a question: what is the purpose of the repressed ethic of my breathing speech, of the Lunguage of the Letter, the object cause, and the Breath- one should never name God but the Ethic: I desire, therefore I Act- definitely Acta non Verba.


  1. “the real is the ethic”: it is the central argument in Lacan’s Sem 7, and in particular, with regards to the circuit of the drive between the primary and secondary processes.

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