Fantasmatic Formations & The Symptom

Location: Zoom

Meeting dates: September 16, 23, 20; October 6, 13

Meeting time: Wednesdays, 6:30pm-8:00pm PST

Seminar Title:  FANTASMATIC FORMATIONS AND THE SYMPTOM

Price: 1000 PKR for Students, 2500 for Professionals

Seminar Description: In the Presentation of the Theme for the 2027 NLS Congress, “Fantasmatic Scenarios,” Eric Zuliani writes: “[F]antasmatic formations remain fixed in the subject’s mental life and struggle to emerge in the analytic session. Taking an interest in the fantasy therefore means extending our attention beyond what structures clinical practice, namely the symptom. Supplementing the symptom with the identification of fantasmatic scenarios leads us to consider the articulations between fantasy and symptom in their relation to drive satisfaction.” In this reading seminar, we will work to (i) identify the organizing fantasmatic formations in the cases of Dora and the Rat Man respectively and (ii) isolate the way in which the symptom crystallizes in both cases. As such, we…