Can psychoanalysis tell us anything new about love? Where literature offers us many fine and precise descriptions of love, psychoanalysis can perhaps illuminate the unconscious structures at play. Analytic work shows that we can be in love without knowing it, and there is even a special kind of love that is fostered by the analytic relation itself, that Freud called transference love. These seminars will explore analytic conceptions of love, and many of the questions that arise through clinical work: How do love and desire differ? What are the preconditions of love? Can there be love without guilt? How does love end? And what is the relation between love and clinical structure?
A London-based supervising psychoanalyst, Christos Tombras is a member of CFAR. He lectures, runs workshops and facilitates reading groups. His main research focus is discourse ontology and the epistemology of mathematics.
No prior knowledge of Lacan is assumed.
