Lynchian Analysis: Psychic Reality
Event Information
Description
“We live inside a dream.” Lynch’s revelation echoes Freud’s discovery of Psychic Reality at the birth of psychoanalysis and Lacan’s explication of Universal Madness. The psychoanalytic method of the proper name is the fulfillment of the Analytic project. We see no better example of how this can be performed and what it can contribute than the work of David Lynch. Far from analyzing Lynch’s work we will show how Lynch analyzes us by means of analyzing himself. In so doing he show’s by example how to do an analysis by writing the fantasy in the symptom. This has radical consequences for the future of psychoanalysis as “Xenophilia” or a passion for the unusual, strange, and different. “We are like the dreamer who dreams the dreams and then lives in it.”
This event will serve as an introduction to a conference to follow on Lynchian Analysis. Those interested in participating should attend and/or request information on the “Call for Presentations” from info@analytica.org.
Organizer Analytica
Organizer of Lynchian Analysis: Psychic Reality
Analytica is a research and training association linked to the New Clinic, both founded in 2000 by Dr. Scott Von and associates for the production of clinical and theoretical work in integral medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and related fields of the arts and sciences. Analytica is unique in developing a project to produce a clinic and place for medicine and psychiatry to be practiced in conjunction with and as preliminary to pure analysis. We seek to further Freud and Lacan’s project of taking psychoanalysis out of the medical and therapeutic paradigm and into a new form of psychic transformation and social relation. Analytica exists for the production of analysis not for the production of analysts. The question of whether one wants to further one’s professional practice – for example as a doctor, teacher, artist, scientist, or otherwise – with their analytic work is unique to each person. Analytica does not require or provide degrees, licenses, or exams, which are relevant to the university or state of each member. Analytica is concerned with the production of analysis in extension as a form of transmission and transformation of social relations by means of the analytic discourse, and thus it functions as a school, clinic. laboratory, gallery, theatre, and publisher for the production of its members.
