About this Event
This three-day seminar on Freudian technique is based on the work of Italian psychoanalyst Giacomo Contri, a Lacan's analysant and the first Italian member of the Ecole Freudienne de Paris. The seminar will be led by three members of the Pulsion faculty, all of whom are also members of the Società Amici del Pensiero – Sigmund Freud, the Society founded by Contri in Milan, Italy.
The first day will present Transference as a product — specifically, as the unique product of the partnership between analyst and analysand. Transference is a welcome development when it occurs, since without it there can be no cure.
The second day will address the redefinition of Abstinenz as the exercise of one's "negative talent," a fundamental concept in Contri's doctrine. Negative talent is not the renunciation of receiving satisfaction through the other, but rather the renunciation of the prejudicial objection to receiving satisfaction through the other.
Finally, the third day will focus on Partnership. When we establish a partnership, we exercise our own principle of sovereignty. Neurosis is the repression of the subject's principle of sovereignty, as distinct from its outright denial (psychosis) or its disavowal (perversion).
This seminar may confer 6 CEUs.
Luca Flabbi is a psychoanalyst in private practice with adults in Washington, DC, and a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. He is a board member of Società Amici del Pensiero (Milan, IT) and a faculty member of Pulsion (New York, NY). He received his Ph.D. from New York University. In his writing and talks, he wants to contribute to that crucial combination of the economy, the law, and the legacy of Freud and Lacan that the psychoanalyst Giacomo Contri called the 'Science of Thinking.' Among his publications, "Unconscious and Game Theory", in International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.
Glauco Maria Genga is a psychoanalyst in private practice with adults in Milan and a Psychiatrist formerly with the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Air Force of Milan. He is a board member of Società Amici del Pensiero (Milan, IT) and a faculty member of Pulsion (New York, NY). He works on the psychological and psychopathological aspects of the human factor in the training and monitoring of aerospace pilots. He is also a scholar of Giacomo B. Contri thought, in which Freudian discoveries and Lacanian perspectives are reformed in order to illustrate daily life experience in its juridical terms. Among his publication, Pensare con Freud [Thinking with Freud], Sic Edizioni, 2007. He is the author and main actor of the play Father & Freud, also performed at the Freud Museum, London, in April 2025.
Maria Gabriella Pediconi is a psychoanalyst in private practice with adults and youth in Urbino, Italy, and Assistant Professor of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology in the Department of Economics, Society, and Politics at the University of Urbino. She is a board member of Società Amici del Pensiero (Milan, IT) and a faculty member of Pulsion (New York, NY). Her main research topics cover Freud’s thought and its refinement by the elaboration of the thought of nature by G.B. Contri. Among her topics of interest, autism and Metapsychology, subjectivity beyond diagnosis, and digital minds of young generations. Among her publications, "Unconscious and Game Theory", in International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pulsion Institute, 321 West 44th Street, New York, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 55.20
