211- 2011/2012 NLS Congress Preparatory Seminar – London Society, with Jean-Louis Gault

SEMINAR OF THE NEW LACANIAN SCHOOL IN LONDON
Preparatory Seminar: Towards the 10th Congress of the NLS ‘Reading a Symptom’ Saturday 19th November at 2:30pm Guest Speaker: Jean-Louis Gault, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Nantes, member of the ECF and of the NLS. “The Symptom Between Speaking and Writing” 1. The analytical treatment is a speaking experience. The symptom which the patient complains about, takes the way of speaking in the analytical experience. On that basis Freud conceptualized the symptom as a message. Lacan gave the formula of it with his concept of the symptom as a metaphor. 2. The symptom is not only words. It implies always the body. For this reason it is writing (see Ecrits 280). 3. The practice of analytical interpretation depends on this double affiliation of the symptom, to speaking and writing. References Ecrits on the symptom Lectures in the USA
Discussant: Roger Litten Chair of the London Society Ł15/Ł10 Concessions ULU University of London Student Union Bloomsbury Suite Second Floor
Malet Street, London W1 www.londonsociety-nls.org.uk