Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Berlin
This January, I am delighted and honored to host Peter Jansson in Berlin. Over three events, we will explore cinema, psychoanalysis, and philosophy through a shared question. What can film show us when words fail. In this small series we will move from clinical practice, to theory, to an open public encounter with film. No… Continue reading Cinema, Silence, and the Real. Three Events with Peter Jansson in Berlin
The text discusses the motivations behind becoming a psychoanalyst, emphasizing that intentions of healing and understanding typically stem from fantasy, which misaligns with the true role of an analyst. It argues that actual desire for analysis emerges only through personal analytic experience, leading to a novel relation to suffering and desire, independent of moral goals.
Leon Brenner 