Lacanian Psychoanalysis Seminars
- Dates
- 10 October 2026 — 22 May 2027
- Venue
- BonVivant — Alsancak, İzmir
- Meetings
- Eight in-person meetings · sixteen sessions
- Format
- In person · limited to 15 places
The second year of the Lacanian psychoanalysis seminars held at BonVivant. Starting from Lacan's return to Freud, it takes up fundamental concepts such as the symptom, desire, jouissance and the object a, and discusses clinical topics like psychoanalytic diagnosis, neurosis and psychosis through case studies.
The programme runs over eight meetings, each consisting of two sessions. The opening meetings introduce Lacan's teaching and the concept of the symptom; the clinical structures are then elaborated through the object a, the drive and anxiety. The final two meetings are given over to case studies in neurosis and psychosis.
Programme
- 17.30 Lacan's Return to Freud
- 19.30 On Lacan's Seminar I
- 17.30 What Is the Symptom?
- 19.30 The Symptom and Desire
- 17.30 The Symptom and Repetition
- 19.30 The Symptom and Jouissance
- 17.30 The Object a and the Drive
- 19.30 The Object a and Anxiety
- 17.30 Psychoanalytic Diagnosis
- 19.30 Neurosis, Psychosis, Perversion
- 17.30 Hysteria and Unsatisfied Desire
- 19.30 Obsession and the Impossibility of Desire
- 17.30 Case Study: Neurosis
- 19.30 Lacan's Theory of Psychosis
- 17.30 The Triggering of Psychosis
- 19.30 Case Study: Psychosis
Taught by
Oğuzhan Nacak
Founding member and president of the Psychoanalysis Research Association, affiliated with the international IF-EPFCL in the Lacanian field.
He teaches psychoanalytic theory and practice in the Clinical Psychology master's programme at Bahçeşehir University.
He hosts the Psikanaliz Sohbetleri podcast series, where psychoanalytic concepts are taken up in detail.
He maintains his psychoanalytic and supervision practice at his own office in Nişantaşı, İstanbul.
Registration
Places are limited to 15.
Psychology and counselling students in their 3rd and 4th year; psychologists, counsellors and clinical psychologists; psychiatry and child-and-adolescent psychiatry residents and specialists.
To enrol, send an email to psikologekinsen@gmail.com introducing yourself and explaining your interest in psychoanalysis.
Once your place is confirmed, details about payment and other practicalities will be shared.
psikologekinsen@gmail.com