Psychoanalyse Berlin-Mitte (EN)

Sophia Léonard, Ph.D.

Affiliations:

PsyBi – Psychoanalytische Bibliothek. Space for Research and Practice after Freud and Lacan
Psychoanalytisches Kolleg
FLG – Freud-Lacan-Gesellschaft Berlin
ISPSO – International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations

Current Events:

"Psychoanalysis und Image" (with Prof. Karl-Josef Pazzini), Event Series, Psychoanalytische Bibliothek Berlin
"'It’s (Not) the Mother (Earth)' – Bypassing Phantasmas of Omnipotence Through Negation" (with Moritz Senarclens de Grancy), ISPSO conference 25 June -29 June 2025, Philadelphia (USA)

Recent Publications:

"Productivity and Pigeonholes of Connectedness: In Place of an Interview with Gunilla Palmstierna-Weiss." Diacritics - A Review of Contemporary Criticism (Blog, 3/3024).
Making It Speak. Image and Language in Peter Weiss' Biographical Dramas. Ann Arbor 2024.

... up to Freud, the whole study of human affaire began to a greater or lesser extent from a concern about morality, about ethics, in the sense that it is less a question of studying desire than here and now of reducing and disciplining it. Now, it is with the effects of desire in a very broad sense, desire is not one of the ancillary effects, the effects of desire, that we have to deal in psychoanalysis.

- Jacques Lacan, Seminar V: The Formations of the Unconscious, March 5, 1958 (translation by Cormac Gallagher)