What can I Expect from a (Lacanian) Psychoanalysis? A Public Lecture by Vicente Palomera

The NLS Initiative Berlin has invited Vicente Palomera to Berlin to answer the question: What may I hope for and expect from psychoanalysis?

Palomera bases his response on the following considerations: Freud once wrote, that the most a patient could hope for was deliverance from his neurotic misery - “transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness”. This is a phrase of terrible realism and pessimism.

Jacques Lacan thought that one could obtain something original and new from this neurotic unhappiness and give someone a new possibility of choice. He evokes the possibility of, I don’t know whether to say a new desire, but at least a new effect of desire. This is a great promise.

This lecture is chaired by Natalie Wülfing. It is open to anyone with an interest in (Lacanian) psychoanalysis and welcomes particularly students, who are invited to pose questions.
 

Vicente Palomera is a psychoanalyst practicing in Barcelona, member of the Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis (ELP) and the World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP), as well as honorary Member of the Lacanian Compass of the NLS (USA).
He has a doctorate from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the University of Paris 8, and is former President of both the EuroFederation of Psychoanalysis (EFP, 2007-2010) and of the ELP.
He has published several books and articles in Spanish, and many articles in French, English and Italian. His numerous French language publications feature among others in La cause du désir (Journal of the Ecole de la cause freudienne) and Mental (Journal of the EuroFederation of Psychoanalysis), as well as in English language publications, among them The Lacanian Review (Journal of the New Lacanian School) and The Psychoanalytical Notebooks (London Society of the NLS).

Natalie Wülfing is a psychoanalyst in Berlin, member of the New Lacanian School and the World Association of Psychoanalysis, and responsible for the NLS Initiative Berlin.