Preparatory Event of the London Society Towards the NLS Congress 2023 “Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and in Civilisation”
We continue the preparations for the forthcoming congress of the NLS: Discontent and Anxiety in the Clinic and in Civilisation, next Saturday, 26th November. Lieve Billiet, AMS, member of Kring voor psychoanalyse, the NLS and the World Association of Psychoanalysis, will be helping us elucidate further the congress argument by Daniel Roy, NLS President, through a rigorous re-reading of Freud’s Civilisation and its Discontents – one of the main reference texts for this year’s theme.
Daniel Roy concludes his argument by returning to the opening lines of Freud’s seminal text: “At the very beginning of his text, when responding to the sententious position that human beings “underestimate what is of true value in life”, Freud makes this simple remark: “… in making any general judgement of this sort, we are in danger of forgetting how variegated the human world and its mental life are.” He thus reminds us that instead of imposing universal ideals on civilisation and its clinic, psychoanalysis brings to light “a diversity of colours… of jouissance, desires, objects, and ideals, and above all symptoms” as the “surest way of responding” to discontent and to anxiety…
Join us next week as we’ll be clarifying the process by which Lacan finds a way out of the structural discontent that Freud elucidates. Lieve Billiet will be joined by Vincent Dachy, member of the London Society, NLS and WAP in a conversation around the issues involved.
