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Title: Lost and found: the image in the drive
Speaker: Peter Freund is a media artist and curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area
(USA). He is Associate Professor of Art Practice & Theory at Saint Mary's College of California.
Freund edited and contributed to Trauma Desire Otherness (Hong Kong Society of
Psychoanalysis, 2013), which came out of the 2012 Cartel Encounter.
Summary: You cant step in the same river twice. So said the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. For
psychoanalysis, the predicament is trickier: you can't step in the same river even once. Why?
When you approach to dip your toe in the water, you catch a halting glimpse of your own image.
The psychoanalytic tale of the so-called "mirror stage" dramatizes the image as neither
decorative nor communicative medium but as symptomatic cause of the ideal ego. In the
movement from ideal-ego to ego-ideal, the image becomes fundamentally tied in a knot with
words. We find this knot everywhere in culture today. Typically, with the aid of words, the
image functions as a defense against its own beyond. The image-word nexus in art, however,
may offer a special occasion for activating the unconscious as the core of our subjectivity.
Title: Acting for a reason, unconsciously
Speaker: YAN Lap-Tak, Registered Social Worker
Summary: The Unconscious is structured like a language. The logic of this language also
prescribes how one chooses to act. However, I shall argue that the nature of this inference for
action is a matter of articulation rather than of deduction.
Title: From the talking cure to the listening cure
Speaker: Diego Busiol is a practicing psychoanalyst in Hong Kong
Summary: In 1895, before the term psychoanalysis was adopted, the verbal therapy offered by
Freud was described as talking cure, or chimney sweeping. It was noticed that the very act of
talking could alleviate the symptoms by discharging the energy repressed. However, Freud soon
realized that the cathartic effect of talking was temporary, if not matched with an
adequate listening. Indeed, I propose that the birth of psychoanalysis has been possible
because of this shift from talking to listening. Listening is probably the term that best sums up
and captures the essence of psychoanalysis, and this different emphasis on listening rather than
talking is likely what distinguishes psychoanalysis from all other (more recent, but pre-
psychoanalytic) therapeutic approaches. But then: what listening? How to listen to the
unconscious?
Title: The Common Usage of Freuds Terms
Speaker: Leung Tsz Kin is a student of Psychology in the University of Salford, member of Hong
Kong Society of Psychoanalysis since 2012. He joined a cartel on Lacans Four Fundamental
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Concepts in Psychoanalysisinitiated by Diego Busiol and a weekly study group on Freuds
Introductory Lecture on Psychoanalysis moderated by Yan Lap Tak in 2012. His interest is how
Lacan sees human being psychoanalytically.
Summary: Hong Kong is not the birthplace of psychoanalysis. Hong Kongs language and life
style are hybrids resulted from western knowledge adapted through education. Local Chinesewho use terms and language, typically the way how Americans talk, that many of them are
originated from psychoanalytic theories. However, how much people are well aware of the
meaning of those usages of the technical terms, which are not developed in the context of
Chinese culture.
Title: Psychotic Discourse in time of Post-Ideologies
Speaker: Cyril Su is a founding member of the Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis and Lacan
Society in Hong Kong since 2007. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in both Hong Kong
and China. In 2013, he starts the first Lacanian Cartel in Ningbo, China where he leads a weekly
lecture. In June 2013, Cyril talked in TEDxMoonlake conference about 3.0 Age and
Psychoanalysis. He also works with a German toymaker in developing educational toy.
Summary:
Language circumcises. It ritualizes the symbolic with a cut into the Real of patriarchal law.
Psychotic discourse encounters this cut as a foreclosure that the name of the Father is erased
before it authorizes the Oedipal drama. Psychotic discourse conforms to dissemination,
reflective ratification and symptomatic return to the cut. This is especially understood as a
symptom of the Post-Ideologies, a time when Master Signifier aka the Name of the Father is no
longer valid.