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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

Publications

The Psychoanalytic Act: On the Formation of the No-Body. [Paperback]

The School of the Freudian Letter Publications (2014, UK)

Forthcoming psychoanalytic publication:

On the Ascesis of the Psychoanalyst.

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.

Blog Index

The Apocalyptic Act- Part 7: On the Anxiety of the Death of Time.

September 18, 2013 Leave a reply

And, at the toponarcosis of pathos not been cultivated within the anthropophilic jaws of a system of the Other or jouissance destined to reckon the dire request of an instance, no more than the subtraction of the small ‘a’ from what one may call chronic, the Achronic anxiety to which the Greeks have been zealous enough in dedicating an unconscionable statue, a piece of art to principle not the sexual or suffering, an agalma beyond, in fact, the binary of those two evils of comedy and tragedy sculptured as such within the breeding of an occasion and the truth bared by angst, not as “a before” or “an after”- that is, as a signal of what is to be a Being beyond sexual difference, one which, the (a)somatic function of femininity becoming ether tempting Saint Antony of Egypt; the chronometric ability by which anxiety is placed as a before or an after collapses at the precise moment of the experience, where the Diskobolus, depicted by the hand of Myron on a ptomainic marble, is about to release the discus- not before and neither after, but within the defined juncture of the experience where the end of the drive becomes a start once again, and, yet itself, the occurrence, is neither a cause or an aim: it is a soil where the Cause houses its ethical dimension, ‘a’ timeless one- and, if with the assistance of the ophthalmological instruments, which are made to misinform the Ousia of an experience beyond the body, one views the soma of the Diskobolus because one is not a spectator of what is Asomatic, where the nature of the calligraphy of the letters becomes a foundation itself- not the names of God but the letters of God shape a ParOusia, that of the Paraclete that by itself it is one of the names: the ptosis of time needs and ear and an infected vision: Oedipus has inflicted the wrong part of his flesh, for, it was his ears that he should have treat for being too deaf about the pyrosis of his desire.

The Psychoanalytic Act: On the Formation of the No-Body.

By Petros Patounas.

The School of the Freudian Letter Publications.

The Sinthome is to Act.

September 13, 2013 Leave a reply

The Being Silent is a choice of responsibility for the subject through a canon’s spiral cylinder commanding silence: the Sinthome is the Act, not a goal but a beginning of the topo-logy, where a subject’s Logos becomes an oath for a praxis; this is not anepigraphic, as a new epic accompanies the operation, yet, for this to be the case within a practice with some class of optimism towards the orientation, the act could have been assisted by an uncircumcised tongue, a not so fervid Ankyloglossia. For, to anagrammatize silence’s commotion, the Speaking Being ought to ensemble an Erg(On), an Acting Being; if not, one remains with anastomosis, an open mouth and no speech or one that presently speaks- and that is how an author should illustrate with letters a departed subject, as much as Hebdomeros describes the plasmatic function of a dream. Speech is only the parergon to the Act- and this is whispered to the analyst as a competence, a device of his desire.