Psychoanalysis: the Fate of the Institution - A. Smulansky, G. Tupinamb

Today, the psychoanalytic field witnesses the emergence of the questions that it persistently preferred to avoid. How is the community of psychoanalysts structured? What can the community bring to its members, and how is this membership actually formulated? Can the very psychoanalytic thinking get by without considering its institutional aspect? These and other related questions were raised in the discussion between the two famous theorists and psychoanalysts – Gabriel Tupinambá and Alexander Smulansky, where they had an opportunity to develop their ideas and outline the trajectory for the yet to come research. The debate, organized by the LacanLink project, follows the Russian translation of Tupinambá’s book “The Desire of Psychoanalysis“ that was provided with an extensive afterword written by Smulansky. The English translation is available here LacanLink is a research platform aimed at promoting a new approach in dealing with psychoanalysis and other thought systems Our facebook: Our website: ______________________________________________ Introduction 0:00 • our guests’ presentation 00:56 • the discussion outline 03:10 I. THE QUESTION OF CRISIS AND THE CRISIS OF THE QUESTION 04:56 Alexander Smulansky “Freud’s Desire and the Real Discourse of the Analyst” 06:16 • institutional corruption and the vicissitudes of theory 06:35 • the reinvention of the materialist explanation 08:35 • the consequences of the Freudian enterprise 10:27 • two types of crisis 12:16 • the real discourse of the analyst 12:41 • Freud’s turndown of community 14:16 • the underside of crisis 16:55 Gabriel Tupinambá “Three Levels of Institution” 17:47 • the political level: the redistribution of discussions 18:39 • the historical level 22:50 • the conservative turn in psychoanalysis 23:32 • the cyclicality of crises and crisis of cyclicality 28:15 • the intervention and its place 31:39 • the place of speech in psychoanalysis: inside or out 36:38 • institution and constitution 39:58 II. THE ROLE OF ANALYSANDS AND THE POLICY OF ACCESS 43:12 Alexander Smulansky “The Analyst’s Anxiety and the Access to Analysis” 45:05 • the conservative solution of access 45:07 • the access to community via the analyst’s anxiety 47:03 • the transference on institution as the unanalyzable element of didactic analysis 50:41 Gabriel Tupinambá “The Logic and the Limits of Transference” 45:05 • the dialectic of analyst and analysand commonality 54:01 • the blind spot in the communities’ structure 57:03 • the institutional effects in the analytic process 01:03:21 Alexander Smulansky “Redefining the Analyzing Subject” 01:10:04 • analysis works as long as the analyst does not interfere 01:10:06 • reinventing the analyzing subject 01:12:11 • politics as the question of access 01:13:23 Gabriel Tupinambá “Public Discussion as the Means of Dealing with Anxiety” 01:14:29 The End 01:18:08