What there is: signs of the "there is no" in analytical practice.

  • There is the One: the One all alone, autoerotic jouissance.
  • There are semblants: what is called a man and a woman.
  • There is the symptom: as singular response to the impossibility of the relation
  • There is castration: the dimension of lalangue, words gathered in the analytical experience.
  • There are the drives: a circuit of jouissance that does not aim at the other.
  • There is transference: an operative fiction that aims at the unconscious, the unknown.

Suggested axes:

Axis 1 – Contemporary manifestations of the "there is no"
Current forms of response, supplements, symptoms of the "there is no"

  • Virtual loves, real jouissances
  • No-sex, sexual renunciations
  • The veil. Difference between the secret and the intimate
  • Ravage, sacrifice
  • Acting out, shame
  • Endless conversations without sexual encounter
  • Modern passions

Axis 2 – Love as a supplement for the "there is no"
Solutions, impasses and substitute formations

  • Love as a structural supplement
  • Culture as supplement
  • Analytical transference
  • Contemporary words of love
  • Serial lovers, impossible love

Axis 3 – The Freudian clinic through the prism of the "there is no"
Re-reading of the cases in the light of the non-existence of the sexual relation

  • Dora and masturbation: the irruption of jouissance outside the scene of love.
  • Little Hans and the Wiwimacher: the impasse of the phallic function in the relation with the mother.
  • The Rat Man: scatological jouissance and the figure of the debased woman.
  • The Wolf Man: anal eroticism as a supplement for the impossible of the scene.
  • President Schreber: feminisation as a delusional supplement for the push towards the Other jouissance

Axis 4 – Contemporary drifts of the body and sexuality
Clinic of jouissances, fetishisms and contemporary bodies

  • Deadly eroticisms
  • I am what I say
  • Desexualisation, obscenity
  • Asceticism, pornography

Axis 5 – Sexuation
The game of sexual positions.

  • Modern variations on the female exception
  • The reinvention of masculinities