10 AM: Clinical and Political Effects of Object a: Lacan’s Reading of a Case of Pearl King’s — Nicolas Guérin
1:30 PM: Pearl King and the IPA: Lacan and Tavistock — Manuel Hernández
In 1956 Lacan said that “The secret history of the IPA has not yet been written nor should it be.” How could the secret history of the very association Freud founded not be relevant? Are we not still symbolically implicated in that silenced history? The IPA investigation of the Société Française de Psychanalyse in the early ‘60s was marked by a history that only in 2012 was declassified from English and American government archives. We will trace some of its key elements, including the roles Pearl King, Pierre Turquet, and John R. Rees played in it, and examine the subtle and tense relationship Lacan had with the Tavistock group. Lacan criticized part of its “cultural” project with exquisite irony in his text “La psychiatrie anglaise et la guerre.” We will address the crucial clinical implications of this debate.
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