Treatments of Anxiety in the Lacanian Clinic: Phobia, Paranoia, Inhibition 2023

In this series of six seminars, we explored the clinical application of Lacan’s theory of anxiety, based on his formulation of the construction of subjectivity in the three registers of imaginary, symbolic and real. In Lacan’s Seminar X, Anxiety, he defines anxiety as the lack of lack – the object that should be missing is suddenly present – and while we will focus on this work, we will also consider his later developments. Specifically, we will examine the implications of his theory for the treatments of anxiety in phobia, paranoia and inhibition.

2nd and 23rd September 2023

Chantal Degril: Phobia, a treatment of anxiety?

7th and 21st October 2023

Susan Schwartz: The treatment of anxiety in paranoia.

11th and 25th November

Esther Faye: The treatments of anxiety in obsessional neurosis – the function of inhibition.