FLi STRUCTURED STUDY SEMINAR: ON IDENTIFICATION

w/ Dan Collins

Saturdays Online, 14:00-15:30 (Dublin-GMT).

10 Meetings Nov-May: 2 Nov 2024, 30 Nov 2024, 21 Dec 2024, 11 Jan 2025, 1 Feb 2025, 22 Feb 2025, 29 Mar 2025, 26 Apr 2025, 10 May 2025, 24 May 2025

Description: This fully online series is a structured and intensive study seminar dedicated to the theme of identification. The seminar will be led by Dan Collins who will offer lecture and guided discussion at each meeting. Advance readings and CPD will be available to participants. Participants at each meeting are encouraged to offer responses and discuss and debate the meeting themes. Each meeting's themes and support readings are outlined in detail below.

Bio: Dan Collins is the Founding member of Affiliated Psychoanalytic Workgroups, USA. He lives, teaches, and practices psychoanalysis in Buffalo, NY, USA. He has published numerous articles on a variety of psychoanalytic subjects and is the co-editor of a recent book Critical Essays on the Drive: Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2024). He has a book about the work of Lacan's less well-known writings on the way.

Nov 02, 2024

FREUD, “GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE EGO’

Themes: Discuss the three kinds of identification; Identification elsewhere in Freud; Lacan’s reading of the three kinds of identification

Reading: Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego

Nov 30, 2024

CLASSICAL APPROACHES TO IDENTIFICATION

Themes: Fenichel, “Identification”; Klein, “Identification”; Anna Freud, Mechanisms

Readings: Otto Fenichel, “Identification,” Melanie Klein, “Identification”

Dec 21, 2024

IDENTIFICATION WITH THE ANALYST?

Themes: Sources of the idea of “identification with the analyst”; Sterba; Strachey; Loewenstein

Readings: Richard Sterba, “The Fate of the Ego in Analytic Therapy,” “The Dynamics of the Dissolution of the Transference Resistance”; Rudolph Loewenstein, “Ego Autonomy and Psychoanalytic Technique”

Jan 11, 2025

LACAN AND THE “MIRROR STAGE”

Themes: imaginary identification and the ego, the first account of identification; The mirror stage as identification

Reading: Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage”

Feb 1, 2025

LACAN’S SEMINAR 9, “IDENTIFICATION”

Reading: Jacques Lacan, Seminar 9, Identification (browse or read)

Feb 22, 2025

LACAN OF THE FIFTIES, SYMBOLIC AND IMAGINARY IDENTIFICATION

Themes: In Écrits, in the Seminars

No readings (passages will be provided)

Mar 29, 2025

IDENTIFICATION IN SEMINAR 11

Themes: the series of identifications; the look and the voice; clinical implications, the interior eight

Reading: Jacques Lacan, Seminar 11, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (browse or read)

April 26, 2025

IDENTIFICATION WITH THE SYMPTOM

Themes: Lacan, Seminar 24, 25. Is there any prior history?

Reading: Jacques Lacan, Seminar 24, L’insu que sait de l’une bevue s’aile à mourre (browse or read)

May 10, 2025

COLETTE SOLER AND OTHERS IN THE CURRENT FRENCH SCHOOL

Reading: Colette Soler, Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

May 24, 2025

IDENTIFICATION AND IDENTITY

Themes: Common meaning; Philosophers; Trans and other gender identities

No readings (passages will be provided)