Lacan/UK presents: SALON PSYCHANALYTIQUE

SALON PSYCHANALYTIQUE:The Effectiveness of Psychoanalysis

Dr Luis Izcovich, Tamara Dellutri, MA LLM, and Holly Eloise Foy Roberts (Chair)

A variety of therapeutic proposals are available to treat the subject’s discontent. What is the proposition of psychoanalysis, and what is its effectiveness?

Approaching such a question in the era of service-based therapeutics involves the recognition of psychoanalysis' specificity: what are the distinct features of a clinic in transference, one that relies on speech to ‘touch’ the subject’s traumatism and how does the analyst accounts for its effects without identifying themselves with guarantees of proficiency?

Psychoanalysis is a praxis between two bodies: the analyst and the analysand, one that relies on the dispositive of the transference and is sustained by the analyst's desire and their act. How can we think of the effectiveness of psychoanalysis when acknowledging the idea of the unconscious involves recognising a limit in knowledge and thus, the impossibility of securing the outcomes and therapeutic guarantees demanded by the master discourse of the time?

Despite psychoanalysis’s unusual modality of intervention, the Freudian discovery has developed and extended around the globe, with real influence in clinical settings including the treatments of mental health in institutions.

This leads us to ask what keeps psychoanalysis an active and compelling therapeutic praxis for the XXI century and what affects its reception? Following Jacques Lacan’s development of Freud’s ideas, this event will examine the effectiveness of psychoanalysis.

Dr Luis Izcovich is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He currently teaches at the College of the Psychoanalytic Clinic of Paris and practices psychoanalysis in Paris. He is a founding member of the International Forums of the Lacanian Field and its School of psychoanalysis, SPFLF. Additionally, Izcovich is the author of several influential texts, including The Marks of a Psychoanalysis (2015).

Tamara Dellutri, MA LLM, is a Lacanian analyst, member of LACAN/UK, member of the Foro del Campo Lacaniano de México, a member of school at IF-EPFCL and thus a member of the International of Forums: School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field. She has a background in music, the visual arts and has completed postgraduate studies in Public Health and Law.

Book your place for an evening of conversations at the final home of psychoanalysis' beloved founder. Talks from Dr Luis Izcovich and Tamara Dellutri, will be followed by drinks & canapés.

*Due to the nature of the venue this event has limited tickets. Advance booking is highly recommended.

Venue access: Unfortunately, the upstairs room at the Freud Museum where the majority of the event will take place is only accessible via a staircase. There is a continuous rail on the left hand side of this staircase.