I'm seriously impressed at how you were able to adopt such a poised and balanced position after your shock at the short session. It occurs to me that you're paying for the analyst's skill and creativity as well as time, which might take the sting (at least slightly ) out of a truncated ('scanded') session when you were pouring your heart out. Lacan preferred to call psychoanalysis an "experience" rather than a "treatment", as it's a voyage into the unknown, the unspoken and unarticulated parts of one's life - for the analyst as much as for the "patient." I'm deeply ambivalent, I must admit, about variable length sessions, though not so much about the Lacanian orientation, which I love. I think people do become more vulnerable when they're starting to speak of experience they've never spoken of before, or only referred to in highly abbreviated (defensive) form; we have defenses for a reason, and when we take them down, we're more exposed to being hurt than we were before we did so, and less able to put them back up again at will! But once you become accustomed to the scansion in Lacanian technique, it can indeed sponsor creative speculations, which are all grist to the psychoanalytic mill! Sorry to ramble; lovely, reflective description of your experience, btw.
Such a good idea, using the sleeping mask. I do have online sessions, audio only, with my analyst who lives in another country than the one I live in. I invariably find in the sessions that I tend to write down things or look here and there trying to find some friendly place to focus my eyes on, but your idea of the sleeping mask seems like a very good one, and I shall give it a try.
Thanks once more. Hoping you keep these going...but, of course etc. The 'independence' element you've identified (ostensibly in relation to the variable length session) is instructive. This can thematically be connected to those 'fallow times' when the analyst/therapist or analysand have to be away on the day/time of a regularised session. The therapist I work with pissed me off initially by seeming to OVER-prepare me (us?) for scheduled gaps/breaks. He is senior and has a range of other role commitments...so can be away a few times (say, missing 3-5 sessions in a 6 month period). Framing this as an 'independence' theme is helpful (well, today it is!). Secondly, I am struck by the level and form of transference you seem to share...given your sessions are both online and now are conducted 'camera off'. Would be great to hear more on this - from you and/or the others who are engaging with your important (def to and for me) posted content.
In your previous video on analysis, you remarked that being in analysis while studying the seminars was helpful because it gave you a practical sense of the theory, and I agree. This was especially true for me when it came to the cut. I've been in analysis for about a year now, and I am with a very experienced analyst. More often than not, the session runs long, rather than short. But on the occasions when she has cut very early, I am always aware of why. It is as if I have wandered up a mountain to a very precarious outcropping of rock or cliff - and left there. So the sensation is both vertiginous and one of abandonment: but then I remember to look up and see the view.
Cool. How was the process from study to theory to search and start working with an analyst? I have been studying theory for a year now, but so far I have not been able to earn or save money for an analyst.
First off, thank you for your comment! To answer your question briefly, I started off with imposter syndrome thinking that I was just reading and not really applying the concepts to my life practically. I always wanted to go under analysis but just never found the courage or analyst! I would say if money is tight, try doing something creative - paint, draw, write. Finding a good analyst is very hit or miss but once you find a good one it is definitely worth it. I went more in depth in this video for ya. th-cam.com/video/GVi5GgRNxQo/w-d-xo.html Good luck on your studies and enjoy the rabbit hole.
When I catch myself with the impulse of talking about anything in analysis to whoever except my analyst I find myself thinking about talking that thing in session. Because of recognizing that I couldn't make my analyst hear those things, I want to feel relieved by telling it to others. Do you think talking on TH-cam kills some things in sessions in your very unique relationship with your analyst?
Traditionally, the content discussed in an analytic session should remain confidential, shared only between the analyst and the analysand. However, much like analysis itself, each recollection of an experience can bring new insights and oracular revelations. With every retelling-whether on TH-cam or to a friend-one has the opportunity to re-historicize their own experiences. To address your question more directly, it may involve a willingness to let certain aspects of the analysis ‘die,’ allowing one to step beyond the confines of the analysis itself.
I have a session per week. I know traditional psychoanalysis should be more frequent but as a student I can’t afford more than one session a week haha.
@@LacanofWorms haha no I get it, was just curious. I can see the variable length sessions making more sense if I was going multiple times per week but I think I'd be so pissed off if I had to wait a whole week for my next session lol
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I'm seriously impressed at how you were able to adopt such a poised and balanced position after your shock at the short session. It occurs to me that you're paying for the analyst's skill and creativity as well as time, which might take the sting (at least slightly ) out of a truncated ('scanded') session when you were pouring your heart out.
Lacan preferred to call psychoanalysis an "experience" rather than a "treatment", as it's a voyage into the unknown, the unspoken and unarticulated parts of one's life - for the analyst as much as for the "patient."
I'm deeply ambivalent, I must admit, about variable length sessions, though not so much about the Lacanian orientation, which I love. I think people do become more vulnerable when they're starting to speak of experience they've never spoken of before, or only referred to in highly abbreviated (defensive) form; we have defenses for a reason, and when we take them down, we're more exposed to being hurt than we were before we did so, and less able to put them back up again at will!
But once you become accustomed to the scansion in Lacanian technique, it can indeed sponsor creative speculations, which are all grist to the psychoanalytic mill!
Sorry to ramble; lovely, reflective description of your experience, btw.
Such a good idea, using the sleeping mask. I do have online sessions, audio only, with my analyst who lives in another country than the one I live in. I invariably find in the sessions that I tend to write down things or look here and there trying to find some friendly place to focus my eyes on, but your idea of the sleeping mask seems like a very good one, and I shall give it a try.
Thanks once more. Hoping you keep these going...but, of course etc. The 'independence' element you've identified (ostensibly in relation to the variable length session) is instructive. This can thematically be connected to those 'fallow times' when the analyst/therapist or analysand have to be away on the day/time of a regularised session. The therapist I work with pissed me off initially by seeming to OVER-prepare me (us?) for scheduled gaps/breaks. He is senior and has a range of other role commitments...so can be away a few times (say, missing 3-5 sessions in a 6 month period). Framing this as an 'independence' theme is helpful (well, today it is!). Secondly, I am struck by the level and form of transference you seem to share...given your sessions are both online and now are conducted 'camera off'. Would be great to hear more on this - from you and/or the others who are engaging with your important (def to and for me) posted content.
In your previous video on analysis, you remarked that being in analysis while studying the seminars was helpful because it gave you a practical sense of the theory, and I agree. This was especially true for me when it came to the cut. I've been in analysis for about a year now, and I am with a very experienced analyst. More often than not, the session runs long, rather than short. But on the occasions when she has cut very early, I am always aware of why. It is as if I have wandered up a mountain to a very precarious outcropping of rock or cliff - and left there. So the sensation is both vertiginous and one of abandonment: but then I remember to look up and see the view.
Cool. How was the process from study to theory to search and start working with an analyst? I have been studying theory for a year now, but so far I have not been able to earn or save money for an analyst.
First off, thank you for your comment! To answer your question briefly, I started off with imposter syndrome thinking that I was just reading and not really applying the concepts to my life practically. I always wanted to go under analysis but just never found the courage or analyst! I would say if money is tight, try doing something creative - paint, draw, write. Finding a good analyst is very hit or miss but once you find a good one it is definitely worth it.
I went more in depth in this video for ya.
th-cam.com/video/GVi5GgRNxQo/w-d-xo.html
Good luck on your studies and enjoy the rabbit hole.
When I catch myself with the impulse of talking about anything in analysis to whoever except my analyst I find myself thinking about talking that thing in session. Because of recognizing that I couldn't make my analyst hear those things, I want to feel relieved by telling it to others. Do you think talking on TH-cam kills some things in sessions in your very unique relationship with your analyst?
Traditionally, the content discussed in an analytic session should remain confidential, shared only between the analyst and the analysand. However, much like analysis itself, each recollection of an experience can bring new insights and oracular revelations. With every retelling-whether on TH-cam or to a friend-one has the opportunity to re-historicize their own experiences. To address your question more directly, it may involve a willingness to let certain aspects of the analysis ‘die,’ allowing one to step beyond the confines of the analysis itself.
Can I ask how many times per week you see your analyst?
I have a session per week. I know traditional psychoanalysis should be more frequent but as a student I can’t afford more than one session a week haha.
@@LacanofWorms haha no I get it, was just curious. I can see the variable length sessions making more sense if I was going multiple times per week but I think I'd be so pissed off if I had to wait a whole week for my next session lol
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