The Guild of Psychotherapists

CFAR Annual Conference: Desire and Jouissance
2018-07-13 08:00 - 17:30 (Europe/London)
CFAR Annual Conference: Desire and Jouissance
Saturday 13 July 2018
Time:10.00 am – 5.15pm (registration from 9.30 am)
Venue: University College London (UCL), Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way London WC1H 0AL
Speakers include Jorge Banos Orellana, Anouchka Grose and Anne Worthington
Desire and jouissance are key terms in Lacanian psychoanalysis, with desire often equated with a search for some unattainable object and jouissance with an excess that both disturbs and excites us. Where desire tends to be seen as a positive term, and its emergence marked with approval, jouissance has to be jouissance has to be banished, reduced, drained, limited and localized. But how valid are these terms today? Are they real advances from Freud’s own concepts or have they become mere descriptive terms, used with the same lack of rigour as the concepts of modern psychiatry? This conference hopes to encourage an exploration of the notions of desire and jouissance, tracing their emergence in Lacan’s work and examining their status today.
Entrance fee: £60
Concessions: £40

The Incarcerated Voice: Adventures in Censorship
2017-11-18 09:30 - 12:30
Guild Annual Lecture
Saturday 18 November 2017
Registration from 9.30, lecture 10 – 12.30 followed by a light lunch.
This year’s Guild of Psychotherapists Annual Lecture, titled The Incarcerated Voice: Adventures in Censorship, will be given by Carol Topolski. She will explore the nature and meaning of censorship, from the intrapsychic to the institutional to the state – who or what is the censor and what does it need to silence?
Carol will draw on her wide experience, including as a psychotherapist, as a teacher in prisons, and as a senior film and video censor for the British Board of Film Classification.
Tickets are available from the office: £45, and £35 for trainees. This lecture is being held in aid of the Guild Clinic.
