Training at risk
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…
Trabajos
The concept of normality after 100 years of IPA
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…
Nature of the object in clinical psychoanalysis
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…
The mechanism of cure in psychoanalysis
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…
History of the caracas psychoanalytic society Rómulo Lander and Carlos Valedón (Caracas)
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…
Epilogue of the analytic cure
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…
Are candidate an endangered species?
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…
About Lacanian teaching
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…
Acto creador y el Das Ding
Rómulo Lander (Caracas ) 20001 Crear es producir algo que antes no existía. Sin embargo, en este mundo, el hombre no es capaz de crear de la nada, ni devolver algo a la nada. ¿Entonces,…