DIVERSIDAD SEXUAL Rómulo Lander [Caracas, 2019] Cabe preguntar: ¿De qué se trata cuando hablamos de diversidad sexual? ¿Cuántas formas de organizarse la sexualidad existen? ¿Por qué la diversidad sexual, no refiere a ninguna patología sexual?…
IS THE ROCK OF CASTRATION THE LIMIT TO ANALYSIS? Romulo Lander [Caracas] The 7th International conference of ‘Lacan in IPA’ will take place in the city of Sao Paulo, Brasil. The title selected is: ‘Anxiety:…
LACAN AND PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE Rómulo Lander [Caracas] Jacques Lacan began his psychoanalytical production in 1936 with the presentation in the International Congress of Marimbad of his pioneer paper on the Mirror Stage. But it was…
A new reality from the world Today (2006) there is a concern visible to all of us which refer to the dramatic reduction in the number of applicants to study Psychoanalysis. In 1993 the number…
What we understand by the concepts of ‘mental health’ and ‘normality’ will vary considerably, depending on whether we approach the question from the perspective of medicine, psychiatry or psychoanalysis. As psychoanalysis is not a special…
Introduction In clinical Psychoanalysis three mental elements help me assess the psychic structure I am dealing with. These elements are: (a) Anxiety type (b) Defense mechanisms (c) Object relations. This information will let me know…
1. Purpose of the cure To go into in the theoretical problem of <the mechanisms of cure>, demands first to define the concept of cure. It is very well-known for us, that we psychoanalyst avoid…
In February 1989 after facing many difficulties in the Venezuelan Psychoanalytic Association, eight Full members (six training analyst) and seven Associate members decided to approach the authorities of the IPA and ask for recognition as…
This paper will refer to four additional aspects of the ‘end of analysis’: (1) Place of <Jouissance> in the end of the analytic cure (2) Traversing the <Fantasme> and its significance (3) The problem of…
1. A new reality from the world A visible concern to all of us in this 21st century is the dramatic reduction in the number of applicants to study Psychoanalysis. In 1993 the number of…
As is usual in Latin America, my five years of training, were all Freud and all Klein. Jacques Lacan was not present in the horizon. At that time, beyond Klein, it was Bion the analyst…
