On Friday 18th of March, Charoula Pilavaki, Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation with the SFL, will deliver a seminar on the topic: ‘Divine Drive’. Description: About a year ago, I had the chance to interview the lacanian psychoanalyst Petros Patounas on “That which is Feminine”. Among other innovative ideas, words and...

The School of the Freudian Letter announces the Richard Klein Scholarships, in memory of the psychoanalyst himself who had passed away in December 2021. The SFL acknowledges his legacy and his work importance for psychoanalysts, as well as his wish for subjects to receive psychoanalytic formation in a style supporting their...

On Saturday 26th of February, Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will respond to the process of a psychiatric interview of a psychotic subject that experiences a manic episode according to the psychiatrist treating it. The ‘responses’ series aim in enabling the question “What can psychiatry...

On Saturday 12th of February, Petros Patounas, psychoanalyst of the School of the Freudian Letter, will respond to the process of a psychiatric interview of a psychotic subject that experiences a manic episode according to the psychiatrist treating it. The ‘responses’ series aim in enabling the question “What can psychiatry...

On Wednesday 9th of February, Mirjana Patouna, Lacanian psychoanalyst in formation with the SFL, will deliver a seminar on the topic: ‘What is psychoanalysis’? The seminar elaborates and explores the latter question having as a central reference point Freud’s infamous essay ‘Wild Psycho-Analysis’. Since psychoanalysis is subjective in its ways,...

It has been since forever that man as a speaking subject has used metaphors to describe the world. Jacques Lacan is the first to bring this fact into a psychoanalytic context, noting that this very metaphorization draws reference from another metaphor that is primordial, where the individual takes his mirror...

The Cyprus Society of the SFL (School of the Freudian Letter) hosts a series of seminars where subjects from Cyprus will speak about “what they love doing for living.” They have been chosen on the merits of having the abilities to facilitate the appetite for creation to others, to transmit...

On Saturday the 29th of January 2022, Lacanian Psychoanalyst Petros Patounas, will be presenting the seminar with the title “The Analysis of a Psychotic Subject”. In this seminar Patounas will respond to the testimony of a female subject. In his formulation for this case, Patounas argues that the subjective structure...

On Saturday the 8th of January 2022, Lacanian Psychoanalyst Petros Patounas, will be presenting the seminar with the title “On the movement of the Gordian Knot”. In this seminar Petros Patounas, will discuss and analyse the movements occurring within the Gordian Knot. The Gordian Knot is the term used by...

On Wednesday 19th of January 2022, researcher and psychoanalyst in formation with the SFL, Spyros Zenios, will be presenting the seminar with the title “Signifier and the Signified”. In this seminar Mr Spyros Zenios will elaborate on the terminology of the Signifier and the Signified and their place and context in...