Member of the London Society of the New Lacanian School, the New Lacanian School & the World Association of Psychoanalysis

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Why Lacanian Psychoanalysis?

 

Jacques Lacan created a School as a counter-alternative to hierarchical institutions offering a refuge and a base of operations in order to restore the cutting edge of the field of psychoanalysis Freud had opened.  

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Contrary to common and widely available approaches to human suffering, psychoanalysis does not focus on changing behaviour and habits a priori and as such it is not a "symptom-based approach". Instead, a psychoanalyst takes their orientation precisely by what does not work for each subject, their symptom, in order to accompany them to a process of an exploration and discovery of unconscious determinants, change or stabilisation. 

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Psychoanalysis is a practice of speech and was defined as such by its inventor Sigmund Freud, back in the 19th century. It is quite remarkable that the multitude of "talking therapies" that abound nowadays, owe their existence to the Freudian discovery and they all seem to converge – to a greater or lesser extent – to the conclusion that overall "talking helps". It is through language and speech that the treatment takes place, not without the interventions of the analyst which prevent the treatment from being reduced to "just talking. 

 

Guided by the ethics of psychoanalysis which radically opposes all universal formulas, statistics and "models" of therapy or psychology for "common" mental health difficulties, a psychoanalyst draws particular attention to the use of language and the speech of each subject in order to intervene and allow each one, one by one, to listen, first of all, to what they say, their truths. The psychoanalytic treatment is first and foremost an experience, which allows one to discover a knowledge about oneself and live one's life in a more creative and satisfactory way than before. The Lacanian approach is known for its flexibility insofar as its principles are not defined by exterior and rigid "standards"  such as the clock or the number of sessions. Hence one can have an analysis whether they come once or twice weekly and the sessions are variable in duration insofar as the unconscious is not organised by the clock. 

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I work with anyone who wants to know more about why things are not working, or who realises that something has to change. This can be because there is a crisis or simply something is not quite right. Perhaps there is a repetition in one’s life that is unhelpful, but cannot easily be let go. People come for many reasons, but mostly because they know they need to talk to someone about themselves and what they have experienced in the lives. 

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