Sublimation Seminar

Paris, France & Online

500€ until August 1, then 600€.

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Bracha L. Ettinger & Prof. Dr. Jamieson Webster

Schedule:

Sunday September 22

11am: Coffee/Tea (introductions)

12:30: The seminar venue will be available.

1pm: Session 1

2:30pm Break

3pm: Session 2

5pm: Conclusion of day 1

5:30pm: Drinks and Dinner

Monday September 23

11am: Coffee/Tea

12:30: The seminar venue will be available

1pm: Session 2

2:30pm Break

3pm: Session 4

5pm: Seminar Conclusion

5:30pm: Drinks and Dinner

Note: Dinner and and beverages are not covered by the seminar tuition fee.

Seminar Location: Between the Louvre Museum and Opera in Central Paris. Once you enroll you will be sent the precise address.

Description:

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines sublimation as "a defense mechanism in which unacceptable sexual or aggressive drives are unconsciously channeled into socially acceptable modes of expression and redirected into new, learned behaviors, which indirectly provide some satisfaction for the original drives." This seminar seeks to identify, characterize and map this concept through the work of two renowned theorists and practitioners, Prof. and artists, Bracha L. Ettinger, and Jamieson Webster.

Assigned Texts:

L. Ettinger, The Matrixial Borderspace

Volney Patrick Gay, Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations

J. Webster, Disorganisation & Sex

J. Webster, Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis

Learning Outcomes:

To critically think through and communicate a key concept in psychoanalysis

To critically assess complex concepts and apply them to social and psychological behavior.

Here is the seminar venue.

This seminar can be taken for 3 ECTS credits only by enrolled MA (and advanced BA) students at GCAS.

Enroll to take this course remotely via GCAS-Zoom

Once you have enrolled in this seminar, you will be given access to the seminar platform that will include reading materials, a detailed schedule and the GCAS Zoom link. This course can be taken as one of four required courses in the GCAS certificate programme in psychoanalysis.

Some photos from Bruce Fink’s Paris seminar 2024. Bruce Fink will be teaching a seminar, “The Lacanian Object” in May 2025.