Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis (Online)

Lacan’s teaching dramatically differs from other psychoanalytic schools.

Psychoanalysis is not just a technique of treating mental illnesses, but a theory and a clinic that confronts the subject with the most radical dimension of human existence. It does not “advise” a person how to fit, or adapt to society, but instead explains how something like “reality” constitutes itself in the first place. It offers an account of how the dimension of truth emerges in human beings. Mental illnesses, or structures, such as neurosis, psychosis, perversions, etc., have the dignity of fundamental philosophical attitudes towards reality.

For Jacques Lacan, language is the fundamental structure that shapes the human subject, a socio-historical system (the Symbolic Order) external to the individual, where the unconscious operates like a language, and meaning is perpetually deferred through shifting signifiers, making our very sense of self a product of this linguistic structure.

Marcelo Zigaran is a Lacanian Psychoanalyst in private practice and a professional cellist. He obtained a Bachelor in Arts in Psychology from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, a Master in Cello Performance from the University of Missouri Kansas City, a PhD at the University of Houston, and post-doctoral degree in cognitive psychology and Lacanian psychoanalysis from the University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 2011, Marcelo won first prize in The Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture (formerly the CORST Essay Prize) which recognizes the best essay on psychoanalytically informed research in various fields. Marcelo currently serves as a faculty fellow at the Jung Center, adjunct professor at Houston Institute of Psychoanalytic Studies, and a member and consultant at The Mend Center. He is a cello professor at Conservatory Manuel de Falla.

Publications: Powers of music, a Psychoanalytic approach to Music and Meaning.

This program is being offered ONLINE only. Recordings will be distributed by request to registrants only, and will not be available for individual purchase.

All times are CT. Please contact onlinelearning@junghouston.org with any questions.

Please register early. Programs with four or fewer participants are subject to cancellation, 48 hours prior to their start.

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