Corpo Freudiano Conceptual and Analytical Working Group
To Insist on Psychoanalysis?
What is it?
This group is an act to engage those interested in reading, discussing, and working through the ideas and works of the psychoanalyst and playwright Alain Didier-Weill. It is a dispositif where the clinical testimonies and the theory can be entangled and disentangled, hoping to create a stronger liaison between the artistic and creative transmission contained within the psychoanalytical experience. This is an attempt to bring together not just members and associates of Corpo Freudiano Vancouver but also an extended community interested in the transmission of psychoanalysis and its implications.
Who can attend?
Anyone interested in the transmission of psychoanalysis. You do not need to have previous experience in psychoanalysis, however an interest in the clinical practice as well as the artistic aspects of transmission and creativity is important. The meetings WILL NOT be recorded.
How much does it cost?
It is free for associates and members of Corpo Freudiano Vancouver. Those not associated with Corpo Freudiano, we suggest you pay as you can, in order to help us fund other events in our school.
When are we meeting and where?
Our first meeting will be January 10th, 2027, at 10 am online (Vancouver, BC). Dates and subsquent times will be discussed and decided by those in this meeting.
Please register HERE to receive a link.
In this meeting we will discuss the book we will be reading and working through together.
Since not many books of Alain Didier Weill have been translated into english, the suggestion is to work on his book “The Blue Note: Freud, Lacan and Art,” translated by Désirée Jung for this discussion. It is a working translation, not for the purpose of publication.
ABSTRACT
This working group poses questions before presenting answers to introduce the central theme to be investigated: How to insist on psychoanalysis? The fundamental axis that leads us to propose this group centres on the work of Alain Didier-Weill, a disciple of Jacques Lacan, who provokes the master by inquiring into and introducing new strategies to insist on the transmission of psychoanalysis.
In the preface to his book “The Freudian Unconscious and the transmission of Psychoanalysis,” Didier-Weill affirms:“What Lacan defined as the “desire of the analyst” is a specific path through which a possible symbolization of the real is transmitted: this manner of transmission, whereby the ethics of psychoanalysis is founded, opposes two types of thinking, both candidates to innocence: I have qualified them as“the frigid thought,”and “the purity thought.”*
Following his argument, what types of thinking impede (or resist) the transmission and elaboration of the lived experience, inside and outside the psychoanalytical realm?
Themes such as psychoanalysis in intention (in the private sphere of the clinic) and in extension (in the world) – presented by Jacques Lacan in his “Proposition of 9 October 1967 on the Psychoanalyst of the School”– are some of the elements that Didier-Weill deepens in his vast work, in which he traces possible links between the transmission of psychoanalysis and the arts.
* Désirée Jung’s translation from a quote taken from the preface of Inconsciente freudiano e a transmissão da psicanálise, by Alain Didier-Weill, pg. 9. Original title: Transmission de l’inconsciente Freudien.
Questions:
How do we create new possibilities for the transmission of psychoanalysis?
What are the tensions between intention and extension?
Is it truly possible to transmit something experienced?
How does this occur?
Where do the poem and the metaphors, symbolized in a transferential safety net inside the clinical experience of an analysand, fail to pass into the social realm, outside the so-called “secrecy” of the analytical office?
How does it also resist in the institutional sphere?
How to reinvent psychoanalysis and transmit it, one by one, in the context of authorization, inside and outside the couch and the schools of psychoanalysis?
Or, moreover, echoing what Macla Nunes lays out in her book “How is psychoanalysis instituted? Transmission, insistution, reinvention:
“One of the hypotheses considered by Didier-Weill is that the traditional psychoanalytical societies were oriented by this cleavage, which obeys a bourgeois ideology of private and public lives, operating under the idea that only a subject of exception, Freud or Lacan, is capable of overcoming such dualism and invent or reinvent psychoanalysis.”
Studying the work of Alain Didier-Weill and its developments in psychoanalysis and the arts is essential to understand and problematize possible and impossible transmissions.
