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European Psychoanalytical Federation 33rd Annual Conference REALITIES REALITÉS REALITÄTEN Vienna 2nd - 5th April 2020 Austria Center Vienna Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1 A-1220 Wien Austria
Argument of the EPF Annual Conference 2020 in Vienna
Dear colleagues, We can even hope to gain fresh knowledge from the
comparison. The psycho-analytic assumption of
it is with great pleasure that we invite you to the unconscious mental activity appears to us, on the
33rd Conference of the EPF, which will take place one hand, as a further expansion of the primitive ani-
in Vienna from April 2nd to 5th 2020 and where we mism which caused us to see copies of our own con-
will be welcomed by both the Vienna Psychoanalytic sciousness all around us, and, on the other hand, as
Society (WPV) and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Asso- an extension of the corrections undertaken by Kant
ciation (WAP). of our views on external perception. Just as Kant
warned us not to overlook the fact that our percep-
For our Conference, we have chosen the title tions are subjectively conditioned and must not be
Realities because our present time with its new regarded as identical with what is perceived though
technological achievements has changed and inten- unknowable, so psychoanalysis warns us not to
sified the age-old question of the nature of being and equate perceptions by means of consciousness with
reality. Of course, as psychoanalysts we are mainly the unconscious mental processes which are their
concerned with psychic reality, following a concept object. Like the physical, the psychical is not neces-
that Freud had already begun to develop in 1895 with sarily in reality what it appears to us to be.” Just as
his distinction between thought-reality and external with Freud the object of conscious and unconscious
reality which had led him to formulate: “Thus thought mental processes is not the world itself but a mental
accompanied by a cathexis of the indications of idea of it, be it the inner or the outer world (Cavell
thought-reality or of the indications of speech is the 1993), the conception of reality has also been trans-
highest, securest form of cognitive thought-process.” formed in modern physics. For example, Heisenberg
(1945) pointed out that the naturalist faces a “pro-
The ancient and medieval philosophy agreed on found change in the structure of the whole reality”,
the conception that being was not created by the where the word “reality” denotes the totality of the
mind but was discovered by man. But already Pro- connections between the formative consciousness
tagoras had formulated an early question about the and the world as its objectifiable content. In 1930, he
object and the subject of reality when he stated that explained that modern atomic physics does not deal
man is the measure of all things, “of being as it is, with the nature and construction of the atoms, but
and of non-being as it is not.” However, the reliability with the processes we observe when we observe
of sensory knowledge has always been regarded as the atom. According to him, the weight is always
fraught with problems: think of Plato’s famous alle- on the term observation process: “The process of
gory of the cave, according to which people cannot observation can no longer simply be objectified, its
perceive the physical world, that surrounds them, as result not directly made into a real object“ (quoted
anything else than a mere shadow. For Plato, only after Schulz 1972). Our contemporary psychoana-
the spiritual ideas represented the real of the world. lytic thinking is totally in line with this process phi-
Aristotle, on the other hand, rehabilitated sensory losophy. Freud still took an internalistic perspective
perception, because according to him, it always pro- from the point of view of the first person (“I am, I feel,
vides the soul with the knowledge of a form which is I think”) and faced the problem of how the psychic
true - decisive then are the subjective judgments and apparatus controlled by the pleasure principle and
sensory ideas, “phantasms”, which can also lead to the drives can also be adapted to reality. Whereas
errors. A path, starting from the scholastic escala- Freud believed to find the answer in a combination
tion of the problem of universals and the quarrel of rationalism and empiricism, we now tend to rather
between realistic and nominalist views, leads to the follow the ‘perspective of the interpreter or third per-
skepticism of Descartes, or Locke and Hume, and son’ in Cavell’s sense and thus an externalistic view.
finally to Kant’s subjectivist-phenomenalist theory of This point of view from the third person incorporates
knowledge, to which Freud (1915) also adhered when the deeply influential factor of the public sphere, con-
he wrote: “In psycho-analysis there is no choice for necting the individual via the experience of language
us but to assert that mental processes are in them- games (see Wittgenstein 1958) and behavior with
selves unconscious, and to liken the perception of the world of other speakers. In the child’s interac-
them by means of consciousness to the perception tions with its parents, the development of language
of the external world by means of the sense-organs. and the associated meaning of the world cannot
– 2 –be separated from the interactive actions, whereby actually meeting up with their friends in person. Do
both, non-symbolic and symbolic, levels of psychic these virtual “friends” belong to the physical outer
reality in connection with the associated affects are world, or do they belong to the realm of normal inner
formed. Meaning and reality of the world are con- fantasies, or do they rather represent a new form
veyed through an emotionally tinged and publicly of internal reality? In addition to the conventional
shared language, which at the same time allows the experience of space and time, for many people
child sufficient room for developing and creating its life occurs in a virtual, but quasi-real Second Life.
own fantasies. While, on the one hand, these fanta- Apart from the physically authored Ego or I many
sies are influenced by the outside world, they can, on virtual-real Egos or I-s enter the scene. Are these
the other hand, also have an impact upon the child’s present-day phenomena comparable to Winnicott´s
environment. Thus, a dialectical conception of reality transitional phenomena and potential space; or are
develops. The psychoanalytic method also follows they ultimately stifling the emergence of a creative
a process model and uses the interactional under- imagination? What about the relationship between
standing from the perspective of the third person in fiction, fantasy and reality? Already Walter Benjamin
order to allow for a sense of mental and affective real- (1935) had dealt with the change of art through the
ity in all involved, but especially in the patient. To this development of reproducible photography and film.
reality belong both fantasy and imagination. Third- Are we perhaps facing today not only yet another
person-perspectives include basic psychoanalytic change in aesthetics, but rather an aggravation of
concepts such as Bion’s concept of maternal rev- the conditions that open the floodgates to a multi-
erie, essential to capture inner reality, or the theory tude of manipulative options for distorting reality?
of mentalization as developed by Fonagy, Target et Which are the real fake news: those which desig-
al., which emphasizes playing with different modes nate uncomfortable realities, or rather those which
of psychic reality, like the psychic equivalence mode intend to deny the uncomfortable realities by using
and the pretend mode. And, according to Laplanche, false images? What impact does the increasing use
infantile sexuality emerges in the encounter with of robots as a substitute for humans or human body
the alterity of adult sexuality. The common point of parts have on our sense of reality? Are they a part of
reference for all of these concepts is to be found in us or are they a part of the outside world, or are they
the above-mentioned concept of psychic reality, in ultimately revealing themselves as a chimera made
which, according to Britton (1998), belief takes on up of both dimensions? We would like to discuss
a central importance, because belief and accept- these and other related questions at our conference.
ing something as true lend to psychic processes the
power of reality, much like human perception does We want to thank the Vienna Psychoanalytic
lend it to physical processes. That the sense of real- Society (WPV) and the Vienna Psychoanalytic Asso-
ity is determined by active mental processes and ciation (WAP) for their generous hospitality. We also
can be guided in completely opposite directions is wish to express our thanks for the dedicated prepa-
clinically - as well as in the case of artistic produc- ration of this conference to the Scientific Committee
tions in literature or film – reflected in the fact that and to the Local Committee as well.
the reality presented and believed and expressed in
fantasies, may either promote emotional liveliness or The presidents of the EPF member societies and
else may lead away from it. the EPF Executive wish all participants an inspiring
and personally successful conference.
In view of the actual technological development,
our possibilities of experience have multiplied, but at Jorge Canestri President
the same time uncertainty and skepticism about the Heribert Blass Vice-President and Chair of the
authenticity of inner and outer reality have increased. Scientific Committee
The emergence of the virtual world has intensified Martina Burdet Dombald General Secretary
the dialectic between inside and outside and cre-
ated in the inner experience a tension between one´s
own fantasy and virtual presence. For example, for All references available from heribert.blass@epf-fep.eu
many children and adolescents today, the number
of their virtual “followers” is more significant than
– 3 –The EPF Conference in V
Friday, April 3, 2020
08:30-09:00 Opening the Conference
Jorge Canestri (EPF President) • Meet-the-Societies
Hemma Rössler-Schülein (President Vienna Soc) A discussion between psychoanalysts from
August Ruhs (President Vienna Assoc) different background experience
Heribert Blass (Chair of the Programme Commit- – Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and Vienna
tee) Psychoanalytic Association
ST EN
• Ad hoc Group on Acting Out Patients
09:00-10:30 First Plenary on the Main Theme (previously Ad hoc Group Working Psychoanalyti-
• Konzepte äußerer und innerer Realität und cally with Forensic Psychiatry Patients)
ihre Beziehung zu traumatischen Erfahrungen From virtual fantasy to action in reality
(Concepts of external and internal reality and their Carine Minne (British Soc)
relation to trauma) Chair: Massimo de Mari (Italian Soc)
Werner Bohleber (German Assoc) EN
• The non-symbolic level of psychic reality • Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Adolescents
Judy Gammelgaard (Danish Soc) Virtual reality and adolescence
Chair: Hemma Rössler-Schülein (Vienna Soc) Florence Guignard (Paris Soc)
ST Chair: Catalina Bronstein (British Soc)
EN
11:00-12:30 Post Plenary Discussion Group • Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Children
Werner Bohleber (German Assoc), Judy Gammel- “Cyberspace” in psychoanalysis – on the inter-
gaard (Danish Soc) play between virtual and psychic reality
Chairs: Stefano Bolognini (Italian Soc), Daniela Majlis Winberg Salomonsson (Swedish Assoc)
Luca (Romanian Soc) Chair: Noa Haas (Israel Soc)
EN-FR-GE EN
• IPSO Opening
11:00-12:30 Parallel Panels on the Main Theme IPSO Paper Presentation
• Quel test de réalité pour la psychanalyse à Fridolin Mallmann (Vienna Soc)
cette période de post vérité ? Chair: Tobias Nolte (British Soc)
(What a reality testing for psychoanalysis at this
period of the post truth?)
Bernard Chervet (Paris Soc)
Discussant: Dimo Stantchev (Bulgarian Soc)
Chair: Katrine Zeuthen (Danish Soc)
ST
• Fictions or realities: the cyborg transference
Laura Ezquerra (Madrid Assoc)
Discussant: Rui Aragão Oliveira (Portuguese Soc)
Chair: Bettina Beil Berdal (Norwegian Soc)
EN
• Anders Behring Breivik, master of life and
death: psychodynamics and political ideology
in an act of terrorism
Siri Gullestad (Norwegian Soc)
Discussant: Victor Blüml (Vienna Soc)
Chair: Jani Santamaria Linares (Mexican Assoc)
EN
• Do not adjust your set, reality is disturbed
David Bell (British Soc)
Discussant: Bent Rosenbaum (Danish Soc)
Chair: Christine Franckx (Belgian Soc)
EN
ST = simultaneously translated EN = Panel in English FR = Panel in French GE = Panel in Germanence in Vienna at a glance
15:00-16:30 Parallel Panels on the Main Theme 17:00-18:30 Individual Paper Presentation
• Are you a robot? Cybersex and the sense of
feeling real
Agatha Merk (Swiss Soc) 17:00-18:30 Large Group
Discussant: Cornelia Wagner (German Soc)
Chair: Yavuz Erten (PSIKE Istanbul) • Multiple realities in the Large Group
ST Consultants: Shmuel Erlich (Israel Soc), Mira
Erlich-Ginor (Israel Soc)
• The effect of external trauma on a Holocaust
EN
survivor mother and her child
Ilany Kogan (Israel Soc)
Discussant: Nergis Güleç (Istanbul Assoc) 17:30-20:00 Film Presentation
Chair: Alexander Uskov (Moscow Soc) • Shirley - Visions of Reality
EN A Film by Gustav Deutsch (A, 2013, 93 min. in
• Hidden and presented realities: the psycho- English), followed by a discussion with the author
logical dimensions of defying a perverse or and director Gustav Deutsch
corrupt authority Chair: August Ruhs (Vienna Assoc)
David Morgan (British Soc) EN
Discussant: Anna Christopoulos (Hellenic Soc)
Chair: Stanislav Matacic (Croatian Soc)
EN
• The necessary triangulation with external
reality (social and political) in psychoanalytic
processes
Peter Gabriel (German Soc)
Discussant: Howard Levine (American Assoc)
Chair: Rachel Blass (British Soc / Israel Soc)
EN
• Forum on Psychoanalysis and Language
„The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psycho-
sis“
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychologi-
cal Works of Sigmund Freud,
Volume XIX (1923-1925), 181-186
Sylvia Zwettler-Otte (Vienna Soc), Christoph E.
Walker (German Assoc), Udo Hock (German
Assoc)
EN
• Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Children
Parent Infant Workshop
The importance of baby observation for the
understanding of parent child dynamics:
observed reality in infant observation
Uta Zeitzschel (German Assoc)
Chair: Beate Schumacher (British Soc)
EN
• Ad hoc Group on Delusion and Transference
Fantasy, delusion and transference
– 5 –The EPF Conference in V
Saturday, April 4, 2020
09:00-10:30 Second Plenary on the Main Theme
• The therapeutic process in psychoanalysis: • Listening for screams through the screen…
regressed modes of psychic reality and the Working through changing modalities in psy-
scope for change choanalytic engagement
Mary Hepworth (former Target, British Soc) Divya Rastogi Tiwari (Indian Soc)
Die verflochtenen Ebenen der Realität im Film Discussant: Agnieszka Leznicka (Polish Soc)
am Beispiel Pedro Almodovars ‘Matador’ Chair: Thomas Jung (Vienna Assoc)
(Intertwined layers of reality in the movies exem- EN
plified by Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Matador’) • Two modes of experiencing reality
Stephan Doering (Vienna Soc) Shmuel Erlich (Israel Soc)
Chair: Annika Hirdman-Künstlicher (Swedish Discussant: Jacob Ubbels (Dutch Soc)
Assoc) Chair: Anneli Larmo (Finnish Soc)
ST EN
• COWAP
11:00-12:30 Post Plenary Discussion Group On a new reality for women, motherhood
Mary Hepworth (British Soc), Stephan Doering without pregnancy, adoption, surrogate
(Vienna Soc) mother
Chair: Stefano Bolognini (Italian Soc), Daniela Which kind of challenge for feminity and
Luca (Romanian Soc) maternal preoccupation?
EN-FR-GE Christine Anzieu-Premmereur (Paris Soc)
Lesley Caldwell (British Assoc)
11:00-12:30 Parallel Panels on the Main Theme Harriet Wolfe (San Francisco Center for Psa)
Chair: Cristina Saottini (Italian Soc)
• Malaise dans la nature, malaise dans la EN
culture • Forum on Aging
(Discontents in nature, discontents in culture)
Realities of aging in psychoanalytic practice
Jacques André (French Assoc)
and training
L’union des frères contre l’effondrement dans Christiane Schrader (German Assoc), Audrey
la culture Kavka (American Assoc)
(The brothers’ union against collapse in culture) Chair: Martin Teising (German Assoc)
Luc Magnenat (Swiss Soc) EN
Chair: Sally Weintrobe (British Soc) • Forum on Psychoanalytical Ethics
ST Jérôme Glas (Paris Soc), Udo Hock (German
• Disruptive creativity, artificial intelligence and Assoc)
omnipresent control: cultural psychoanalyti- Chair: Claire-Marine François-Poncet (Paris Soc)
cal thoughts on digital changes of subject and EN
society
Johannes Döser (German Assoc)
Discussant: Tomas Kajokas (Vilnius Soc) 14:00-16:30 Writing Workshop
Chair: Maria Teresa Flores (Portuguese Study • Workshop on Writing a psychoanalytic paper
Group) for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis
EN Led by Rachel Blass (British Soc / Israel Soc)
• Fundamentalism: the analyst facing reality Chair: Dana Birksted-Breen (British Soc)
Adela Abella (Swiss Soc) EN
Discussant: Angela Mauss-Hanke (German
Assoc) 14:30-16:30 Round Table Discussion
Chair: Ferhan Ozenen (Istanbul Assoc)
EN • Realities in psychoanalysis, sciences and arts
Gustav Deutsch (Film director, Vienna), Johann-
August Schülein (Sociologist, Vienna), NN, NN
Chair: Heribert Blass (German Assoc)
EN
ST = simultaneously translated EN = Panel in English FR = Panel in French GE = Panel in Germanence in Vienna at a glance
15:00-16:30 Parallel Panels on the Main Theme 17:00-18:30 Individual Paper Presentation
• Konstruktion, äußere Realität und psychische
Realität
(Construction, external reality and psychic reality) 17:00-18:30 Large Group
Franz Oberlehner (Vienna Assoc)
Discussant: Arjen Schut (Dutch Soc) • Multiple realities in the Large Group
Chair: Smadar Steinbock (Israel Soc) Consultants: Shmuel Erlich (Israel Soc), Mira
ST Erlich-Ginor (Israel Soc)
EN
• Realities in psychoanalytic clinics – internal
and external
Louise Hird (Winn Clinic, Sydney) 17:00-18:30 EPF / IPA Working Party Committee
Tjark Kunstreich (Vienna Psychoanalytic Clinic) • (WPC): Joint Panel on Working Parties
Geneviève Welsh, Mayssa El Husseini (Centre
Kestemberg, Paris) Working Party on Initiating Psychoanalysis.
Chair: Ekaterina Kalmykova (Moscow Soc) Beginning psychoanalysis: powerful uncon-
EN scious realities
Bernard Reith (Swiss Soc)
• Maria Lassnig: Painting internal and external
reality and feeling of the body Realities and the Listening-to-Listening-
Rotraut De Clerck (German Assoc) Method
Discussant: Patrick Miller (Research and Training Haydée Faimberg (Paris Soc)
Soc) Chair: Heribert Blass (EPF Vice-President),
Chair: Alberto Luchetti (Italian Soc) Ruggero Levy (Chair IPA WPC)
EN Moderator: Leo Bleger (IPA WPC)
EN
• Panel IPA Migration and Refugee Committee
The bitter realities of trauma, flight and migration
Sverre Varvin (Norwegian Soc),
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (German Assoc)
Chair: Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp (German Assoc)
EN
• Male – female – divers? Struggling with the Sunday, April 5, 2020
realities of our patients today and with our
own countertransference reactions
Dana Amir (Israel Soc) 09:30-11:30 Third Plenary on the Main Theme
Discussants: Eva Reichelt (German Assoc), Samir
Tilikète (Research and Training Soc) • The Internet and the identity of the analyst:
(all are members of the European Subcommit- ongoing reflections on a problematic area
tee of the IPA Committee on Sexual and Gender Andrea Marzi (Italian Soc)
Diversity Studies) Child development and psychic structuring in
Chair: NN a world of technological devices
EN Guiseppina Antinucci (British Soc)
• Forum Psychoanalysis and Muslim Contexts La psychanalyse et le virtuel
The interplay between political and psychic (Psychoanalysis and the virtual)
reality: Muslims in Europe today Sylvain Missionnier (Paris Soc)
Presenter: Sevil Kural (PSIKE Istanbul) Chair: Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein (Vienna Assoc)
Discussant: Fakhry Davids (British Soc) ST
Chair: Saskia von Overbeck Ottino (Swiss Soc)
EN 11:30-12:00 Closing Ceremony
• Forum on Institutional Matters
Birth of new analytic societies – expectations,
fears and realities
Gabor Szőnyi (Hungarian Soc)
Discussant: Christine Diercks (Vienna Soc)
Chair: Maggiorino Genta (Swiss Soc)
EN
– 7 –Post Plenary Discussion Group
Friday 11:00h-12:30h and Saturday 11:00h-12:30h
Following the plenary sessions, there will be a Dis- Bolognini (Italian Soc) and Daniela Luca (Romanian
cussion Group. The aim is to offer a possibility to go Soc) who also take on the task to translate between
into some depth discussing the plenary presentation, English, German and French.
but in a smaller setting. On both occasions the ple-
nary speakers and discussants will be present: On The group is open and there is no preregistration.
Friday Werner Bohleber (German Assoc) and Judy Candidates are welcome.
Gammelgaard (Danish Soc) and on Saturday Mary
Hepworth (former Target, British Soc) and Stephan
Doering (Vienna Soc). Moderators will be Stefano
A Large Group Event
Friday 17:00h-18:30h and Saturday 17:00h-18:30h
Consultants: Shmuel Erlich, Mira Erlich-Ginor
Multiple realities in the Large Group
Each of us experiences his or her reality personally Two consultants will be available to facilitate the
and subjectively. But this deeply sensed personal process: Shmuel Erlich (Israel Soc) and Mira Erlich-
reality is also influenced and shaped by the realities Ginor (Israel Soc).
of the many others with whom we interact and who
affect us. As psychoanalysts, we are used to relate This Large Group (in English) will meet twice, on
to and deal with the complex realities shaped by the Friday and Saturday of the conference, and is open
dyadic situation. Yet we are also affected by what to all conference participants, including guests.
transpires at the level of the group, the institution There is no need to preregister.
and the psychoanalytic society in which we live and
work. As citizens we are affected by social and politi-
cal realities, including fake news and virtual realities.
Do we have a part in and any influence over such
realities?
This Large Group provides an opportunity, within
the scientific activities of the conference, to reflect
on and explore the ways in which the real presence
of many others affects us, whether by enriching or by
restricting our own experience, and the many ways
in which the external interactions affect our inner-
most sense of what is real. This experience may
expand and enhance our participation in the socie-
ties and institutions to which we belong.
– 8 –Individual Papers
Friday 17:00h-18:30h and Saturday 17:00h-18:30h
This section of the conference is intended to allow work. Submitted papers will undergo peer review
members of the EPF component societies (including according to the following criteria: psychoanalytical
candidates) to become more involved with the EPF quality of argument and relevance for the confer-
scientific work and to submit their ongoing clinical ence theme. The peer review will be organized by
work and research for peer discussion and debate. the Programme Committee.
It is also possible for smaller groups to submit their
If you are interested in presenting a paper, please see www.epf-fep.eu for application form and instructions on submit-
ting your work. Submitted papers should have no more than 8-12 pages / maximum 22.000 letters.
Deadline for submission: 30th November 2019. Enquiries to geber@t-online.de.
Working Party on Psychosomatics
Thursday 09:00h-12:30h and 15:00h-17:00h
Chair: Luigi Solano
Starting from a clinical point of view we would In a second part of the morning session, the pre-
like to better apprehend the points of convergence senter will report the raw material of two or three
between hypotheses concerning the somatization sessions. In addition to the moderator leading the
processes; these are often hidden behind different discussion, there will be a silent listener who will
metapsychological theorizations. On the other hand, intervene at specific moments when central psycho-
it is equally important to work on the basic differ- somatic issues emerge. We will explore how these
ences between these theories. Our working party moments relate to the initial hypotheses drawn from
aims to work on these issues. the first interviews.
There will be two groups (in English) in Vienna, After the lunch break, we will try to explore more
each one with two sessions, one in the morning, in depth the transferential and countertransferential
one in the afternoon. During the morning session, issues raised during the morning session and the
the presenter will present the two or three very first way the group’s dynamics reflect them.
interviews with his / her patient. We will then discuss
our hypotheses on the functioning of the patient, on Leaders of the groups will be members of the core
our understanding of the mechanisms leading to group: Fotis Bobos (Hellenic Soc), Bérengère de
somatic illness in this particular case as well as on Senarclens (Swiss Soc), Joerg Frommer (German
the first transference – countertransference interac- Soc), Marina Perris (British Soc), Jacques Press
tions. (Swiss Soc), Eva Schmid-Gloor (Swiss Soc), Chris-
tian Seulin (Paris Soc), Luigi Solano (Italian Soc),
Nick Temple (British Soc).
If you are interested, please write to luigi.solano@uniroma1.it with a few words to introduce yourself. There will be
no direct registration by Congress-Organisation Reusch. Please note that you must first have paid your registra-
tion at the conference before applying for the WP. Deadline is 28 th February 2020. Limited registration.
Our workshops are open to members and candidates of IPA psychoanalytical societies and study groups.
– 9 –Forum The Specificity of Psychoanalytic Treatment today
Wednesday 15:30h-19:00h and Thursday 09:00h-18:45h
Chair: Philippe Valon. Secretary: Lila Hoijman
The clinical groups are made up of between 12 and erators and presenter, to assess the validity of the
15 analysts from different analytic cultures who work inter-analytic group work in identifying the specifici-
for a day and a half on the same clinical material i.e. ties of each psychoanalytic treatment.
3 consecutive sessions of a current analytic treat-
ment presented by the analyst himself or herself. In Vienna there will be 4 groups (1 French speaking
The presenter reads the sessions without giving any and 3 English speaking), one or two of them may
indication of the patient’s biography or the course be exclusively for candidates / IPSO members. The
of the analysis. Once the first session has been pre- other groups are for members and candiates.
sented the analyst remains quiet without responding
to questions raised by members of the group. The Please note that the clinical groups will take place on
fundamental rule of the group is that of psychoana- Wednesday 15:30h to 19:00h and Thursday 09:00h
lytic treatment for the patient i.e. to associate freely to 18:45h. Those wishing to take part should attend
to the material. Thus the group ‘constructs’ the all sessions of their group.
patient. During this work the two moderators listen
and mediate the group’s associations.
The basic idea is for each participant to articulate the
unconscious derivatives, based on their conscious
and unconscious basic assumptions, in order to
further the inter-analytic work that constitutes trans-
ference diffractions of the patient and analytic cou-
ple. Towards the end of the work, usually in the last
meeting, the presenter shares their responses to the
group process. This step enables the group, mod-
All analysts who are registered for the conference are eligible. Candidates may apply for the IPSO group that is
integrated into the IPSO program, or to a members and candidates group.
The groups require pre-registration. Please specify your choice of language. Those wishing to participate in
one of these groups should register online and write to philippevalon@yahoo.fr with copy to lila.hoijman@
me.com. Candidates should specify whether they want to attend a group exclusively for candidates or a group
for members and candidates.
The application will be confirmed by the Chair or Secretary.
– 10 –Forum on Exploring Training Process and Practice (ETPP)
Wednesday 16:00h-18:00h and Thursday 09:00h-13:00h and 14:00h-17:30h
Chair: Françoise Labbé, Ekaterina Kalmykova
In the Forum on “Exploring Training Process and institute, and therefore the presentation of super-
Practice (ETPP)”, interested training and supervis- visory material will be combined with the question:
ing analysts of all European psychoanalytic socie- How do different training models interact with super-
ties are invited to look at candidates in training and vision and how does the institution further or hinder
especially in supervision. the progress of candidates?
In the presentation and discussion, we want to fol- A training and supervising analyst will pre-
low the course of the whole training and to investi- sent supervisory material in a small group of col-
gate the strengths and weaknesses of the presented leagues and the colleagues should concentrate on
candidates at different stages of their training, also the implicit training model of the presenter and on
dependent of the institutional strengths and weak- the institutional influence as well. This is an oppor-
nesses. tunity for the presenter to reflect on his ideas with
colleagues, especially in relation to the institutional
All psychoanalytic supervision is embedded in an context. There will be two small groups (in English)
institution. The question then arises as to whether and each group will be moderated by a member of
and how the progress of candidates, their strengths the ETPP core group. Your presence is required at
and weaknesses, are linked to specific institutional the 3 sessions.
influences.
Therefore, the ETPP Forum places emphasis on
the meaning of the structure and the culture of an
institute in which supervision takes place. This is
influenced by the specific training model of each
If you want to participate, please register online with your registration for the conference not later than
28 th February 2020 and send an email mentioning country, city and institute to drfrlabbe@gmail.com.
Eligible to participate are all EPF and IPA training and supervising analysts (no candidates).
– 11 –Forum Working with Haydée Faimberg’s ‚Listening to Listening’ Method
Wednesday 17:00h-20:00h / Thursday 09:00h-17:00h
or Thursday 09:00h-17:00h / Friday 14:30h-16:30h
Chair: Haydée Faimberg
We co-create a language to discuss differences Common language refers to a way of understand-
and understand the presenter’s work. We wish to ing each other in the group, not to a project of work-
overcome the idea that we accept the work of a col- ing as psychoanalyst in a similar way. Though it
league just because he works as ‘me’. Often clini- might seem a difficult task, we feel it makes justice
cal material is heard from one chosen implicit basic to differences instead of idealizing sameness.
assumption (recognized or not). It is part of our goals
to train ourselves in listening not only to recognize We are using the function of ‘listening to listen-
the presenter’s clinical assumptions but also to rec- ing’, which was initially limited to the psychoanalyti-
ognize our assumptions as well. cal listening in the session. By ‘listening to how each
participant listens to each other’, the sources of mis-
We shall try to understand from which theory understanding (as a valuable tool) may appear and
we are listening to the presenter as well as trying so we begin to recognize the basic assumptions of
to understand from which theory the presenter is each participant (which might create, precisely, the
listening to his patient and interpreting or not inter- misunderstanding).
preting. We explore the impact that the theoretical
assumptions of each participant have on the discus- References: Listening to Listening and Misunder-
sion itself. standing and Psychic Truths Chapters 7 and 8 in
Haydée Faimberg The Telescoping of Generations:
Listening to the Narcissistic Links between Genera-
tions Routledge 2005.
For registration please write to h.faimberg@orange.fr with copy to geber-reusch@t-online.de if possible
in November, groups are easily fully booked. The groups take place either Wednesday/Thursday (English) or
Thursday/Friday (English or French). Full attendance required.
Only for EPF and IPA members.
For candidates a special session is devoted on Wednesday afternoon (English).
If you want to participate in this group, please register online.
– 12 –Forum on Psychoanalysis and Muslim Contexts
Thursday 09:00h-12:00h, 17:00h-19:30h and Saturday 15:00h-16:30h
Chair: Saskia von Overbeck Ottino
Political and psychic realities: Muslims in Europe today
In the external, socio-political reality of present- lim immigrant in Europe today. Projective identifi-
day Europe Muslims encounter powerful stereo- cation, particularly as it relates to the question of
types in which they are seen as a dangerous other when projections become unbearable, has served
that threatens the continent’s “Judeo-Christian” to link internal and external reality. In this confer-
identity, which, in turn, is regarded as central to ence there will be further detailed exploration of the
European civilization. The Forum has studied the links between the external political reality they live
powerful impact of these stereotypes clinically, as in and the internal lived reality of patients from Mus-
well as their impact on the relationship between lim backgrounds.
the indigenous, normative European and the Mus-
English and French Workshops:
When Aztec healers first caught sight of the Span- English Pre-Conference Workshop
ish Conquistadors – so very “other” – the experi- (Thursday morning)
ence was so disruptive that they proclaimed “this is The relative weight of internal and external real-
not real, we are in a delusional state”. Using clinical ity in clinical work with Muslim patients
material, this workshop will explore the proposition Organized by Fakhry Davids (British Soc), Virginia
that, at the deeper levels of the mind, the disruption De Micco (Italian Soc) and Geneviève Welsh (Paris
brought by the encounter with the “cultural other” is Soc)
overwhelming and traumatic, producing inner pain French Pre-Conference Workshop
that may be unbearable. Psychically, this can create (Thursday late afternoon)
a sense of unreality, in which reality may be experi- Construction of differences – clinical explorations
enced as “inhuman”. Organized by Saskia von Overbeck Ottino (Swiss
Soc) and Geneviève Welsh (Paris Soc)
If you would like to participate in one of the pre-congress workshops on Thursday please register online and
send an email to vonoverbeckottino@bluewin.ch.
Limited to 40 persons.
Open to IPA / EPF members and candidates.
Panel on the Main Theme
(Saturday afternoon)
The interplay between political and psychic reality: Muslims in Europe today
Work with a Turkish patient caught between com- external situation complicates this inner struggle,
peting secular and religious stereotypes in his world concretizing it, and describe his moving attempts to
will provide the background to the panel discussion. find a way through.
These stereotypes give form to his deep inner strug-
gle to bring his psychic economy in line with the real- Presenter: Sevil Kural (PSIKE Istanbul)
ity principle – the need to surrender the pleasure of Discussant: Fakhry Davids (British Soc)
phantasy wish fulfilment in the face of restrictions. Chair: Saskia von Overbeck Ottino (Swiss Soc)
The paper will explore the ways in which the patient’s
– 13 –Forum on Collective Traumas
Thursday 09:30h-13:30h
Chair: Eva Weil
Collective traumata and their traces in the cure
In order to reflect on this topic, we have drawn on Are there any contemporary adaptations of the
psychoanalytical texts concerning the links between theory of trauma, with regard to the mass execu-
the individual, culture and history. Although “Mas- tions in the 20th century? We believe that, before
senpsychologie und Ich-Analyse” (“Group Psychol- the historical event can be worked through collec-
ogy and the Analysis of the Ego”) can be considered tively, it generally passes through a period of latency,
the most important work on this issue, our reflec- which determines the modalities of the transference
tions strongly lean onto psychoanalytic reports of experiences from one generation to the next. The
of colleagues, on writings of survivors and their nature and the function of this latency period, as well
descendants, as well as on research on contempo- as the concurring psychological processes, need to
rary history, political anthropology, literature etc.. be described and explored.
From the very beginning, in his working hypoth- By discussing the above questions, we aim to
esis, Freud locates culture and the collective in the broaden the discourse on the consequences of the
core of the psyche, which thus bares traces of our “current collective traumas” in contemporary Europe.
ancestors’ experiences. We are faced with them in the treatment room,
With regard to this issue, the contributions of col- because in psychoanalysis, the individual subject’s
leagues in our seminars held in the previous EPF very essence is linked with the collective.
Forum have led us to conceive the intertwining of
the individual and the collective within the cure not In our 2020 Forum, we’ll reflect on the clinical
merely in terms of duality and mutually exclusive experience of some colleagues who live(d) in first
dichotomies. person the post II World War conflicts in Europe
through past generations traumatic traces and
Collective traumas have challenged psychoanaly- recent interethnical destructions. Past and present
sis since WW1 & WW2, to think over the conceptual- traumas are intertwined in a complex elaboration
ization of destructiveness both in the individual and on both individual and collective level. We will try
in society, in the internal as well as in the external to explore these connections through their psychic
world. One of the aims of a community’s work is to consequences in different environments.
re-weave the fundamental bonds of human relation-
ships in group belonging. The session (in English) will be chaired by Eva Weil
(Paris Soc), Anna Ferruta (Italian Soc)
If you would like to participate in this group, please register online.
Clinical presentations are welcome.
For EPF and IPA members and candidates.
– 14 –Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Children
Thursday all day, Friday 11:00h-12:30h and 15:00h-16:30h
Chair: Antònia Grimalt, Carmen Wenk-Reich
Child Analysis Pre-conference
(Thursday all day)
As in previous years, this event will offer an in- read Norman J & Salomonsson B (2005) Weaving
depth clinical experience for child analysts and thoughts: A method for presenting and commenting
those keen to explore the beginnings of adult psy- on psychoanalytic case material in a peer group, Int
chic functioning. Detailed session material is pre- J Psycho-Anal, 86:1281-1298.
sented to small groups and discussed using the
Weaving Thoughts Method, chosen for its capacity Pre-registration is required for this event. If you
to foster openness to unconscious processes while would like to participate or present a case to one
of the small groups, please email Elena Fieschi Vis-
helping to contain critical or supervisory trends.
cardi: efieschi@gmail.com.
Those unfamiliar with this approach may wish to
Parallel Panel on the Main Theme
(Friday morning)
Majlis Winberg Salomonsson (Swedish Assoc) will present a paper on the topic of
“Cyberspace” in psychoanalysis – on the interplay between virtual and psychic reality.
Internet communication pervades our tigate what the Internet use means for John was such a boy when he first
psychoanalytic work in many ways. the inner world. came to my consulting room. He was
Many theorists emphasize the impor- Young people use the Internet in dif- completely trapped in his own world at
tance of examining the virtual scenar- ferent ways and there is also a differ- the computer. It took several years of
ios that our patients show us so that ence between boys and girls. While analytical work to get a picture of what
these “inanimate objects” come to life. girls more often communicate on this cyber world, this virtual reality,
It is important that they be transformed social sites, boys are more involved meant to him. Only then did it become
into emotions and not remain psychic in computer games, where they play possible for him to go out and commu-
elements that are evacuated or acted with others but can also sit and play for nicate with other youngsters in real life.
out. In other words, we need to inves- themselves. Moderator: Noa Haas (Israel Soc)
Parent Infant Workshop
(Friday afternoon)
Uta Zeitzschel (German Assoc) will give a presentation on the Importance of baby observation
for the understanding of parent child dynamics: observed reality in infant observation
Infant observation, a method devel- to the baby’s early experience, its sory modalities do more mature com-
oped in 1948 by Esther Bick at the sensory-dominated perceptual world, munication channels emerge from the
Tavistock Clinic in London, with its and to the unconscious communica- earliest interactions between the baby
approach of Learning from Experi- tion with its primary objects. States of and its primary objects? Can the initial
ence (Bion 1962), is invaluable for the great emotional turbulence and disin- feeling of oneness develop into a space
understanding of parent-child dynam- tegration can be experienced when the for two, a space for three? Can mother
ics. It gives an immediate impression holding of the primary object fails and and father promote their baby’s striving
of the existential dependence of the the baby is exposed to early anxieties. for autonomy?
baby and the earliest relationships to How are the baby’s states to be under- In this panel, I will present detailed
its primary objects, evolving through stood? What is it projecting into its extracts from my baby observation
processes of introjection and projec- mother? Does the mother take in these as a basis for discussion of these and
tion. From birth onwards, participants projections, or does she shut herself off other questions about parent – infant
observe the baby weekly for one hour from them? What sense does she make dynamics. I will also be dealing with
in its interaction with mother, father of the signals received in the context of the controversy between proponents
and siblings. At the same time, observ- her own constitution and life story? and opponents of the method of infant
ers focus their attention on processes What does the mother in turn project observation.
within themselves and on their reverie. into her baby? Is she overwhelming or Moderator:
Via identification, they gain access intrusive? How and through which sen- Beate Schumacher (British Soc)
If you would like to present a paper in a future Child All participants registered for the conference are
Analysis or Parent-Infant Workshop, please email
welcome.
Antònia Grimalt: 8331age@gmail.com.
– 15 –Forum for the Psychoanalysis of Adolescents
Thursday 10:30h-13:15h and 14:30h-18:00h, Friday 11:00h-12:30h
Chairs: Sara Flanders and Patricia Grieve
The Forum on Adolescence of the EPF Conference organizes an annual
program aimed at the promotion and discussion of ideas related to
the psychoanalytic treatment and study of adolescence.
“Realities”
The reality of the post-pubertal body impinges the relationship to it, and its importance in the indi-
upon the adolescent in many different ways; it vidual’s development and sense of self, postulates a
becomes the representative of reality at large. The new reality, that of the changed gender, and ques-
relationship the adolescent has with her own body tions our shared sense of reality.
determines her relationship with external reality.
She may resort to psychotic mechanisms in order The structure of the program:
to deny, foreclose, split off or disavow threatening
somatic changes. Thursday morning, there will be a clinical workshop.
Virtual reality may then become a handy substi- If you would like to participate in the clinical work-
tute as it can lend itself to manipulations that suplant shop on Thursday, please register online and write
the reality of a body which is experienced as beyond an email to sarajflanders@gmail.com.
the subject’s control. It can relativize the reality of
the body and its meaning, to conform with wishes Thursday afternoon there will be a theoretical panel
and fantasies that are seeking to restore an illusion presentation for discussion, and Friday morning, a
of omnipotence. Virtual reality may become a refuge presentation on the theme of the conference, this
from the challenges posed by pubertal transforma- year by Florence Guignard (Paris Soc).
tions, as well as refuge from the encounter with an
other, embodied being.
All who are interested in adolescence are welcome.
A current ideological trend, which is becoming
very influential with troubled adolescents through its
internet dissemination, posits the radical and com-
plete independence of genre from the sexual body
of birth, and an almost infinite possibility of choice.
This extreme form of denial of the reality of the body,
– 16 –Forum on Ageing
Thursday 10:00h-15:00h, Saturday 11:00h-12:30h
Chair: Gabriele Junkers, Christiane Schrader
Workshop Forum on Ageing
(Thursday morning)
Realities of aging as a topic of psychoanalytic training and further education
Due to demographic change, more and more peo- training and further education, where it has rarely
ple are getting older. Today’s age phase, which found a place so far. We would therefore like to
often covers one third of the life span, brings with discuss with you in the forum the draft of a psycho-
it many changes, challenges, conflicts and losses, analytical curriculum for psychoanalytical training
which can lead to psychological crises, symptoms and for the further training of colleagues who have
and illnesses. As skepticism about the possibilities already completed their colloquium.
of psychoanalysis among older people has declined To prepare this forum, we are interested in whether
and other generations of patients are growing old, and which seminars or courses on the topic of older
older and old people are increasingly seeking our and old patients in psychoanalytic practice already
help. In particular, older psychoanalysts, who are exist in your working groups, institutes and societies.
more interested in this phase of life because of their And we hope that you will be interested in our sug-
own experiences, are increasingly taking older and gestions, which will be presented and discussed in
old patients into psychoanalytic treatment, but the detail in the forum.
younger ones are also receiving enquiries accord-
ingly. Due to these changes, we propose to include
the necessary knowledge in the psychoanalytic
Pre-registration is necessary. For registration please send an email to cschrader.infopraxis@gmx.de. Open for
members, especially to those involved in education and further education and to candidates.
– 17 –Forum »Free Clinical Groups« (FCG)
Thursday 13:00h-17:00h
Chair: Claudia Thußbas. Vice-chair: Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing
This specific method of examining clinical material The initial presentation of the material ends at a
was developed by Wolfgang Loch in Tübingen. He point just before the first intervention or interpreta-
has characterized the discussion of clinical mate- tion has been made. Only when the group itself has
rial in groups by comparing it to the model of the arrived at one or more possible interpretations, the
prism effect: Like the light beam that, when funneled presenter will show the rest of the session. Informa-
through a prism, will reveal heretofore invisible parts tion about diagnosis, patient biography, the process,
and make them transparent. The group discussions number of previous treatment hours and frequency
will reveal thus far unmentioned and unconscious of treatment will not be provided until the presented
components of the patient and make him appear in session has been discussed in its entirety that is only
his various parts and different nuances, thus ena- before the final discussion.
bling a deeper understanding of the psychoanalytic
work. The independent clinical groups (FCG) in Vienna
will consist of two moderators, one presenter, and
This psychoanalytic method as a discourse ori- a maximum of 15 participants. The clinical material
ented method, which aims at the mutual understand- may be chosen from psychoanalytic treatments in a
ing between subjects, is therefore particularly well variety of settings. The participants will come from
suited to facilitate a clinical understanding between different European societies.
different psychoanalytic schools and traditions. The The following colleagues will act as moderators:
group is not only interested in a psychoanalytic pro- Henrik Enckell (Finnish Soc), Maria Teresa Flores
cess but mainly in arriving at possible interpreta- (Portuguese Study Group), Patrick Miller (Research
tions. The group process will be used to understand and Training Soc), Claudia Thußbas (German Assoc),
the case material. Dorothee von Tippelskirch-Eissing (German Assoc)
and Marja Wille-Buurman (Dutch Soc).
Literature:
• Dorothee von Tippelskirch Eissing (2019). Erfahrungen mit “Deutsch-Sein” als Anders-Sein in zwei Inter-
nationalen Group Relations-Konferenzen in Israel in den Jahren 2006 und 2007. Jahrbuch der Psycho-
analyse. Bd 77, 33-60.
• Wegner, P. und Thußbas, C. (2018). Feinkörnige Strömungen seelischer Substanzen in der psychoana-
lytischen Situation (Teil 2). In: Jahrbuch der Psychoanalyse. Band 77, 97-122
Eligible to participate are all IPA-members as well as candidates. Due to multiple requests, we will offer groups
in English and French (depending on the number of registrations). Those wishing to participate in one of these
groups should register online, not later than 5th March 2020, those who are interested to present clinical material,
should send an email not later than 5th March 2020 to Claudia Thußbas (claudia.thussbas@t-online.de).
– 18 –Forum on Institutional Matters (IMG)
Thursday 14:30h-18:00h and Saturday 15:00h-16:30h
Chair: Maggiorino Genta
How do our psychoanalytic organisations deal with external and internal realities?
(Thursday afternoon)
The Institutional Matters Group (IMG) worked Our interest has been more and more concerned
within the framework of the EPF as a federation, with the inner workings of psychoanalytic societies,
which is especially convenient for exploring matters with their histories, their political situation, their par-
concerning the structure, the culture and the organi- ticular culture, their ways of mediating conflicts and
sation of very different psychoanalytical associa- how they survived.
tions. We were also able to have a look at how psy-
Consisting of seven colleagues from different choanalysts and their institutions have contributed
parts of Europe, this group provided an opportu- to what has gone wrong with psychoanalysis. Very
nity to encounter and exchange diverse perspec- often problems concerning training methods have
tives with various historical contexts and theoretical played a central role in institutional conflicts.
backgrounds. We wonder: is psychoanalysis complicated or
During our meetings we invited representatives have psychoanalysts made it complicated? Some-
and studied histories of several Societies. We cre- times psychoanalysis, which is a humanistic disci-
ated now a small discussion forum, consisting of pline, possibly comparable to a natural science, can
people mainly with practice in different offices in take the institutional form of a kind of religion.
analytic organisations but some also with organisa-
tional counselling expertise; developed a method to We would like now to invite others to join our dis-
explore analytic societies; faced how complex and cussions, bringing their own ideas, experiences and
“swampy” is the topic and the method; combined the histories, with our two presenters and our guests.
different levels to get better understanding (but also
wrestled with that combination) and found several Presenters:
important points (e.g. the historical point and the Franziska Ylander (Swedish Assoc), Annemarie de
birth of societies; the positive and negative aspects Wit (Dutch Soc) Split and merging
of splits). Bernard Chervet (Paris Soc), NN (Madrid Assoc) Why
We could realise, following the way of uncon- our organizations are regularly haunted by uncon-
scious « madness » which becomes the cement of scious follies? And how they recover their aim to sup-
a group mentality inside institutions, that very often port the development of psychoanalysis?
it does not appear even if it exists, but sometimes Chair and introduction: Maggiorino Genta (Swiss
it becomes very active and efficient in very strange Soc)
manifestations, very difficult to understand.
Our meetings and studies in a small group lead
us toward the wish to open and share more with col-
leagues and particular guests, such as in today’s
Forum.
For the Workshop on Thursday pre-registration is required. Those wishing to participate should apply when
registering for the conference online.
Members, candidates and participating guests are welcome.
– 19 –Forum on Psychoanalysis and Language
Friday 15:00h-16:30h
Chair: Christoph E. Walker
“The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis”
The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud,
Volume XIX (1923-1925), 181-186
In his work ‘The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and the “damage should be made good again”, the
Psychosis’ (1924) Sigmund Freud modifies his resulting loss of reality should be compensated.
understanding of the distinction between neurosis Freud concisely underlines this distinction when he
and psychosis. In both cases he states that it is a writes: “Neurosis does not disavow the reality, it only
disturbance of the perception of the external world. ignores it; psychosis disavows it and tries to replace
“Both neurosis and psychosis are thus the expression it”. A common characteristic, however, is the reac-
of a rebellion on the part of the id against the exter- tion of fear that accompanies the symptoms.
nal world, of its unwillingness – or, if one prefers, its From these remarks there are a multitude of
incapacity – to adapt itself to the exigencies of reality, connections to the conference topic. In this forum
to ΄Ανάγχη [Necessity]. Neurosis and psychosis dif- we want to explore this further, beginning with the
fer from each other far more in their first, introduc- intriguing question of how this has been reflected in
tory, reaction than in the attempt at reparation which the translations into English and French.
follows.”
In neurosis and psychosis, the disorder unfolds in In English, French and German; Contributions
different ways. In neurosis, he sees a loss of reality regarding other languages are highly welcome.
in the first phase, which is to be replaced in a second
phase by the formation of a compromise, a symp- Sylvia Zwettler-Otte (Vienna Soc)
tom. Repression plays a central role here. sylvia@zwettler-otte.at
He uses the term “denial of reality” to describe Christoph E. Walker (German Assoc)
development on a psychotic level. It involves a psy- christoph.walker@t-online.de
chotic refusal to perceive external reality. In a first Udo Hock (German Assoc)
step, with the help of denial, the ego is separated udo.hock@web.de
from reality; in a further step, a new reality (delirium
or hallucination) is created in its stead. In this way
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