On 27th of March 2021 Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will present a seminar entitled 'Constructions in psychoanalysis and the place of Desire'.

According to Patounas psychoanalysis is not the reverse of the Discourse of the Master. In fact, he states, psychoanalysis should not be the reverse of anything or any discourse because its aim is to facilitate the embodiment of desire through the Act, what Patounas calls the identification with the Act. Lacan’s introduction of topology situates psychoanalysis beyond the ‘reverse’ or the ‘deeper’. If the orientation of psychoanalysis is the Act, the only reverse we could include is apraxia.

With these thoughts in mind, what then is the place of constructions in the practise of psychoanalysis, and what is actually being constructed?