WHAT ETHICS FOR PSYCHOANALYTICAL PRACTICE TODAY?

Psychoanalysis has faced several resistances since Freud. Currently, it is being questioned by neuroscience and cognitivism. Various psychotherapies are competing with it, including religious ones. Some countries tend to exclude it from state health or educational institutions.

During the last fifty years there have been many political, social and technical changes according to the neo-capitalist stage we are living in, affecting at the same time the individuals consulting us due to their discomfort and us as psychoanalysts, since we are all divided subjects of this scientific civilization.

Lacan proposed a writing of capitalist discourse where social bond is no longer linked to the impossible. The scientistic ideology feeds the illusion that everything is possible and that the economic growth can be infinite. There is a push to consumption that has created unpayable debts for individuals, companies and nations. There is no longer a monetary standard to refer to, and the markets are hyper-inflated in a flight forward that is creating new bubbles. Meanwhile, social inequality and the planet destruction reach perhaps irreversible extremes.

We are in a civilization that reifies subjects and pushes to jouissance, which induces the anxiety of depersonalization and depression that are   juggled by consuming objects, using drugs or psychotropic medication. An alibi that only deepens the subject’s alienation from his suffering and his desire.

How does all of this, affects the training and practice of psychoanalysts?

What questions are raised by the decrease in the frequency of analysis sessions and supervision?

How to intervene when many of the demands received do not go beyond the resolution -the fastest the better- of the anguish or the symptom? What professional conduct of the cure could lead patients to undertake a proper analysis?

How the transference gets affected by the fact that loving bonds and relationships have become fickle?

Since online sessions are widespread, what are the consequences on our act and the elaboration of the analysands?

Lacan’s lessons on psychoanalytic discourse as the reverse of the master’s discourse, and on the analyst’s desire which leads us to take the place of the object cause of desire regarding to the analysand, are essential to answer these questions.

This Congress intends to open a debate on these and other issues that may arise to the ethics that guides our practice, based on the subjectivity of our time.


Congress device

The Congress will be held combining an online session on Thursday, May 25, with two face-to-face sessions on Friday, May 26 and Saturday, May 27. Previously, on Wednesday, May 24, a face-to-face CLF/CEG meeting will be held between the representatives of the different associations.
In the online session, working groups, made up of members of different associations, will have preference.

Translation

The translation, both in person and online, will be carried out in the four languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese and English. For the rest, the texts and their translations will be available a few days before on the Congress website.

Registration conditions

The associations that wish to register for the Congress, both in its face-to-face and online version, must previously send an email to the email: congreso@convergencia-2023.com in order to make it effective. Each association must contribute before November 30, 330 dollars translated into euros: 300 of an annual contribution plus 30 for participation in the CLF/CEG meeting.

As for colleagues who wish to participate as speakers, they must send an email to: congreso@convergencia-2023.com specifying their name, the association they belong to, whether they will participate in person or online, and under what modality they wish to do so: institutional presentation, working group or individual presentation. The registration fee is 150 euros before January 31, 2023. After that date, 180 euros must be paid.

From these emails we will finalize the payment of the registration.

Colleagues or people who wish to register only to attend the Congress in person must also send us an email to the email address indicated above. The price is 150 euros before November 30 and 180 euros after that date. Non-speakers who only attend the online session will not pay.

Seating is limited, so places will be assigned based on the order of registration.


Dates of delivery of the presentations

The title of the institutional, group or individual papers, as well as the submission of the abstract, have a deadline of 1/31/2023.

The delivery of the text and the translation into the other three languages ​​must be done before 03/31/2023.

Where?

Gallery Hotel
c/Rosselló 249
08008 Barcelona

Organizing Committee

Organizations that organize the congress

Cercle Freudien

Dimensions de la Psychanalyse

Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse

Psychanalyse Actuelle

In collaboration with

Associaçao Psicanalítica de Porto Alegre
appoa.org.br


Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires
efbaires.com.ar

Organizing Committee in Barcelona

Gisela Avolio
Marcelo Edwards
Alejandro Pignato
Lucía Pose