Next Monday 16 April.

Lacan and childhood, two events.

Please register for the afternoon talk here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carol-owens-lacanian-clinical-presentation-tickets-43833469086 and register for the early evening book launch event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lacanian-psychoanalysis-with-babies-children-and-adolescents-further-notes-on-the-child-tickets-43833681722

(if the UCU strike goes ahead on Monday we will relocate the afternoon session to a nearby alternative venue and let you know via the Eventbrite system, the book launch is secure, so please register now if you want to come along)

Here details of the two events:

Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix

Clinical Presentation

Monday 16^th April 2018, 4.15 (drinks and snacks) for 4.30 start

Room AG3/4, Ellen Wilkinson Building, University of Manchester

‘A dull essence Adult: less sense Adult lessons Adolescence:

Some ways to hear a speaking being (of a certain age)’

Carol Owens, Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Dublin

What is an adolescent? What sorts of practices does the category ‘adolescent’ warrant? What sorts of pre- and pro-scriptions exist to protect, regulate, educate, and treat adolescents? These, seemingly “old-fashioned” questions are nonetheless taken-for-granted for anybody who has had a critical psychology or post-structuralist informed education when they have cause to think about the concept ‘adolescent’ and, or, indeed the person so defined. However, a curious thing happens with psychoanalysts and psychotherapists when the issue of working with adolescents arises. The nomination “child psychoanalyst/therapist” sanctifies and regulates the practice of an entire profession of workers, who can apply such accreditation to their work with people up to the age of eighteen. The nineteen-year-old coming for a therapy requires nothing other than a trained analyst or therapist who contentedly regards themselves as working with an “adult”. The field of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy is (potentially and actually) infected therefore with the most banal of constructions: the slide from twelve to thirteen denoting one parameter, the other from eighteen to nineteen delimiting the other. What is legitimated is the constructed and uncontested site of the adolescent as a person of a certain age. In this talk, I want to argue that Lacanian psychoanalysis provides one means of contesting the apparently uncontestable motif of age and its attendant gatekeepers in the Symbolic. As a Lacanian analyst who works with “adolescents” I will use a few short clinical vignettes in order to indicate how and where the ethics of psychoanalysis brought to bear as a critique of the uncontestable, is nothing other than the act of being that psychoanalysis requires of the analyst. Carol Owens is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in Dublin. She has edited and authored a number of publications in the field of Lacanian psychoanalysis, most recently “Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child” (with Stephanie Farrelly Quinn, Karnac, 2017)*. She is currently working on an edited collection of essays studying Lacan’s seminars IV and V (with Nadezhda Almqvist, Karnac, 2018), and on a co-authored book on Ambivalence (with Stephanie Swales, Routledge, 2018).  Register on Eventbrite:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carol-owens-lacanian-clinical-presentation-tickets-43833469086

*There will be a Manchester book launch for Lacanian Psychoanalysis with Babies, Children, and Adolescents: Further Notes on the Child at Blackwell’s Bookshop at 6.30, details and free registration for this event is on Eventbrite:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lacanian-psychoanalysis-with-babies-children-and-adolescents-further-notes-on-the-child-tickets-43833681722