On Subjective Space

2 CE credits for Social Workers and Psychologists

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When we say “space” we think we understand what we are talking about, even though the idea of space has given rise over the centuries to subtle philosophical, religious, and scientific debates that have yielded contrasting theories. From a psychoanalytic point of view, the relation to space appears above all libidinized, mediated by the signifying relation by means of which we approach the world. Returning to Freud’s concepts of libido, desire, fantasy, and psychic reality, and to Lacan’s notion of the subject, we will explore the transferential relationship a person has with the milieu to which he/she belongs.

Paola Mieli, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is a founding member and president of the Freudian-Lacanian Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York). She is a member at Le Cercle Freudien (Paris), an honorary member of the European Federation of Psychoanalysis (Strasbourg), and an Associate Researcher at the Centre de Recherches en Psychanalyse, Medicine et Société at the University of Diderot – Paris VII. Contributing Editor of the Journal Insistance: Art, psychanalyse et politique (Paris), she teaches courses on sexuality and representation in the Department of Photography and Related Media of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. The author of numerous articles on psychoanalysis and on culture published in Europe and America, her books include Figures of Space: Subject, Body, Place (New York, March 2017); A Silver Martian—Normality and Segregation in Primo Levi’s Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge (New York, 2014); Sobre as manipulacaoes irreversivels do corpo (Rio de Janeiro, 2012), and Being Human: The Technological Extension of the Body (Co-Editor, New York, 1999). She is the Publisher and Director of the newly established Sea Horse Imprint (New York).

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