Corpo Freudiano Paris

Psychoanalysis laboratory

Conferences
A PARIS – November 2025 to June 2026

At the Theater “The Wind Rises”
and “Au Fil Rouge” (hybrid)

” THE UNCONSCIOUS IS STRUCTURED’ LIKE A LANGUAGE “

PSYCHIC STRUCTURES AND LANGUAGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Argument

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What is a structure?

A structure, in general, is the singular way in which something is constructed. The word structure comes from the Latin verb pile which means to superimpose, assemble several layers. Therefore pile means to connect, build, put together. For linguistics, to build is the way in which the parts of a poem are placed, of a speech, of a verse, in one word. And for psychic phenomena, what about?

It is customary in psychoanalysis to consider that the psychic structure of the individual is constructed by successive layers., stacking on top of each other : stade oral, stade anal, phallic stage, autoerotic stage, genital stage, etc.

Psychoanalysts, to orient themselves in their own work, distinguish three structures: neurosis, Psychosis, and perversion. The delimitation of these structures is necessary for them to determine what is called conduct of the treatment, but also transfer handling. As such, these structures are essential tools, as a reference for the analytical clinic.

For Lacan, the language, the words, and the speech, are meaningful structures. Language provides structuring mechanisms, while speech and discourse embody the explicit support of human exchanges, and thus trigger the communication functions.

Furthermore, Lacan adopted the notion of discourse to designate the social bond, that is to say the organization of exchanges between human subjects. Discourses articulate various models of signifying structures, that can be identified.

The rules which structure the unconscious are those which structure language: metaphor and metonymy are the two essential structuring laws of language which govern the unconscious through the double play of combination and substitution. The unconscious manifests itself by the emergence of elements in a sentence, whose meaning is accessible to deciphering, by the interpretation which aims at the signifier.

Corpo Freudiano Paris offers a series of meetings around the enigmatic Lacanian affirmation : “The unconscious is structured like a language”. During these meetings each of us will be invited to express ourselves. Starting from the Freudian and Lacanian theory of psychic structures, through listening to one's own words and that of other participants, we want to bring out something from the knowledge of the unconscious.

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Inscription for the 10 Laboratory meetings / 100 euros (free for practicing members of Corpo Freudiano Paris and members of Corpo Freudiano Brazil)

Payment by check payable to Corpo Freudiano Paris, accompanied by your contact details (Nom, first name, email address and telephone number). A send to the attention of Baya Belaskri (Treasurer), 49, rue of Alesia, Paris 14.

It is possible to pay by bank transfer. Request the RIB of Corpo Freudiano by WhatsApp at the number 06 26 80 34 71 or by email to corpofreudianoparis13@gmail.com.

Registrations can also be made on site

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Programme : November 2025 – June 2926

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• Sunday 8 February 2026

De 14h30 à 17h00 – Mauro MENDES DIAS (VOX Institute of Sao Paulo) :

« La psychose et la réinvention de la clinique psychanalytique »

Lieu – THE WIND RISES Theater – 181 Avenue Jean Jaurès – 75019 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

Argument :

Si la psychose peut être présentée comme point de liaison avec la réinvention de la clinique

psychanalytique, c’est précisément parce qu’elle a toujours amené Freud et Lacan à

réinventer, sans le savoir, un rapport avec elle – Psychosis.

Freud invente un rapport par la clinique de l’écrit, en analysant les Mémoires de Schreber,

alors même qu’il ne considérait pas possible la psychanalyse pour les psychotiques.

Lacan invente, selon lui-même, un passage à la psychanalyse à partir de sa patiente Aimée,

outre le fait d’inventer un diagnostic dans la psychiatrie, basé sur Freud: “la psychose d’auto

punition”. La réinvention arrivera au nœud borroméen, en amenant à la création d’un nœud

of paranoia.

La réinvention par Lacan de la présentation des malades, à la lumière de la tradition

psychiatrique, introduit d’autres éléments dans la clinique du psychanalyste, qui doivent être

clarifiés.

• Sunday 23 November 2025

14h30 – Concept laboratory :“The original repression”

From 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. – CONFERENCE de Mario Eduardo COSTA PEREIRA (Freudian Body São Paulo) : “Historical and logical-conceptual foundations of the notion of “clinical structures” introduced by Lacan”

From 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Debate

Lieu – THE WIND RISES Theater – 181 Avenue Jean Jaurès – 75019 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

ARGUMENT:

Aat the beginning of the years 1950, Lacan proposes a “return to Freud” in order to overcome

The sterilizing distance that psychoanalysis had taken with regard to clinical originality

and ethical radicalism established by its founder.

To carry out this project, it is not just a question of restoring the discovery

Freudian, but also to correct certain inconsistencies : traces of physicalism

from the 19th century, the ambiguity of the boundaries between psychoanalysis and natural sciences, or

still the difficulties in demonstrating the conditions of validity and the universal scope of the

Oedipus complex faced with the contributions of the anthropology of his time.

In this context, Lacan relies on conceptual tools from cybernetics

nascent, linguistics and structural anthropology, who promised

human sciences a new logical rigor.

The concept of “structure” thus becomes a decisive instrument : it replaces the quest for

meaning through the analysis of form and system, substituting for interpretation

hermeneutics the precision of logical formalism.

This communication aims to present the rational foundations of one of the most important achievements

most fruitful of the “return to Freud” : the distinction of clinical structures.

We will examine the lines of theoretical tension which lead Lacan to define

strictly neurosis, psychosis and perversion, from their relationship to language,

their effects on the body and their impact on the subject’s modes of existence

in the social bond.

To conclude, we will analyze the factors which led Lacan to reformulate

Later his structural thinking in terms of knot and braid theory,

in the last part of his teaching.

• Sunday 7 December 2025

From 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. : CONFERENCE de Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge (Body Freudian Rio de Janeiro) : “Diagnosis in psychoanalysis”

From 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. : Debate

Lieu – THE WIND RISES Theater – 181 Avenue Jean Jaurès – 75019 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

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From the creation of psychoanalysis, the relationships she maintained with the main achievements of psychiatric knowledge were constant. There are two aspects of the current relationship between these two disciplines which, in my opinion, turn out to be quite significant, even surprising. First, it is mainly psychoanalysts from the Lacanian movement who today defend the constant reference to the classical psychiatric tradition, whose clinic made it possible to gradually establish, based on the long experience that psychiatrists have acquired with their patients, various clinical pictures on which psychoanalysis has constructed its main hypotheses.

It is interesting to emphasize that the fact that Lacan followed medical training in psychiatry, while Freud was a neurologist, contributed greatly to it. Then, it seems that current psychiatry accomplishes the supreme objective of classical psychiatry - to associate the various essentially organic disorders with mental alterations and, de là, define treatment protocols based solely on ever-increasing advances in pharmacology.

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• Monday 15 December 2025

21h00 – Mario Eduardo COSTA PEREIRA in dialogue with Jacques see :

“The influence of cybernetics in Lacan’s thought”

Lieu – 8, Atelier SIBONI, Passage Charles Albert, 75018 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

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ARGUMENT:

From the end of the years 1940, Lacan discovers a new scientific approach which

would revolutionize modern knowledge and leave a lasting mark on his own thinking. : the

cybernetics. Preceding structuralist rationality, she gives it back in some way

the possible emergence.

Yet, this major influence remains little explored by

Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysts.

The objective of this intervention is to retrace Lacan’s decisive encounter with the

cyberneticians, especially with Roman Jakobson, speaker in the famous

Conferences Macy (New York, 1946–1953).

We will offer a reading of Seminar II, often referred to as his “seminar

cybernetics", in order to identify the marks of this science of communication and

control in the constitution of Lacanian discourse.

This course will allow us to understand how cybernetics has contributed to

formalize the Lacanian conception of the subject, of the language and the very structure of

the unconscious.

• Sunday 11 January 2026

14h00 – Concept laboratory » : to define

From 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Felipe Castelo Branco (Body Freudian Rio de Janeiro) :

“Clinical structures in Lacan. Return to the notion of structure »

From 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – Debate

Lieu – The Red Thread, 4 Rue Wurtz (RdC), 75013 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

• Sunday 15 March 2026

14h00 – Concept laboratory: …

From 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Jacques Nassif : “Freud and psychic structures”

From 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – Debate

Lieu – The Red Thread, 4 Rue Wurtz (RdC), 75013 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

• Sunday 29 March 2026

From 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge (Body Freudian Rio de Janeiro) : “The training of the psychoanalyst”

Lieu – THE WIND RISES Theater – 181 Avenue Jean Jaurès – 75019 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

• Sunday 19 April 2026

14h00 – Concept laboratory

From 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Denise MAURANO (Body Freudian Rio de Janeiro) : “Transmission of psychoanalysis and Institutions in Brazil, In France, in Italy »

From 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. – Debate

Lieu – The Red Thread, 4 Rue Wurtz (RdC), 75013 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

• Sunday 17 may 2026

14h30 – Table ronde : “The structure and formation of the unconscious” with Paolo Lollo, Olivier COURTEMANCHE, Baya Belakri, Laurent Peyronnie.

Lieu – The Red Thread, 4 Rue Wurtz (RdC), 75013 PARIS (The zoom link will be sent to registrants the day before).

° Wednesday 24 June 2026

18h00 – 21h00 Conclusion & openings

Lieu – THE WIND RISES Theater

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Mario Eduardo COSTA PEREIRA

Psychoanalyst, psychiatrist.

Member of the Freudian Body – School of psychoanalysis / São Paulo, Brazil.
Professor of Clinical Psychopathology at the Department of Psychiatry of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), where he directs the Psychopathology Laboratory – Subject and Singularity (LaPSuS).
Professor in the doctoral program in psychoanalysis at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
Secretary of the Section Psychoanalysis in Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA).

Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge

Psychoanalyst. Director of Freudian Body Rio de Janeiro Section.

Member of the International Society for the History of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.

Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Felipe CASTELO WHITE

Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of psychoanalysis.

Professor at Fluminense Federal University.

Professor at State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Member of Body Freudian Rio de Janeiro.

Mauro MENDES DIAS

Psychoanalyst, director of Instituto Vox – Research and training in psychoanalysis.

Denise MAURANO

Doctor of Philosophy.

Professor at UNIRIO.

Member of Body Freudian Rio de Janeiro.

Jacques Nassif

Psychoanalyst.

Member of Cartels Constituents.

Honorary Member of Corpo Freudiano Paris.

Writer and translator, Jacques Nassif worked within theFreudian School of Paris and was the first editor of Jacques Lacan's seminars.

Jacques see

Psychiatrist doctor, Psychoanalysis, president of the association 1901 “Lutecium working group” Topologos – Lutecium.

Paolo Lollo

Doctor of Philosophy, psychoanalyst, president of Corpo Freudiano Paris.

Olivier COURTEMANCHE

Painter, psychoanalyst, Vice-president of Corpo Freudiano Paris.

Baya Belakri

Doctor, Psychoanalyst.

Member of Corpo Freudiano Paris.

Laurent Peyronnie

Professor of Letters, psychoanalyst, member of Paris Freudian Body.

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