Year-long Course on Freudo-Lacanian Psychoanalysis

The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis

Transference, Repetition, the Unconscious, and the Drive

Dr Luis Izcovich & Ms Tamara Dellutri

From October 3rd, 9:30 BST

Sixteen lectures across the year with Tamara Dellutri moving through Transference, Repetition, the Unconscious and the Drive, culminating in a final event with Dr Luis Izcovich. This course is both for those new to Psychoanalysis and those experienced in its theories and practice.

The lectures will take place on the first and third fridays of the month at 9:30am London time (BST/ GMT).

In the text 'British Psychiatry and the War: 1947' the French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan notes his appreciation of the particularities of British psychiatry during a visit to the UK. In this talk, Lacan observes the effects that the war has produced on British psychiatric wards, where under the presumed effectiveness of the English utilitarian approach, patients were treated in the context of populations and groups rather than on a one-to-one basis.

The attentiveness to the singular manifestations in the life of a given person is a distinctive feature of the work that Sigmund Freud, and later Jacques Lacan, developed. Instead of a normative approach to human suffering based on ideals of 'mental hygiene', 'normal functioning', biological or cognitive approaches, both psychoanalysts favoured explorations around the singular marks of a subject's relation to language.

This introductory year-long programme explores Jacques Lacan's Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis: transference, repetition, the unconscious and the drive in the context of contemporary debates on mental health.

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.