A school is to be taken in this case as a place to ask some questions next to critical discourse and critical thinking. After all, anywhere that charges so-called training fees might necessitate a dialectic. But regardless of that, there is no standard, etiquette nor one-way in psychoanalysis, it is case-by-case, even with some notes.
Supervision is no different, but it is not the centre for psychoanalysis because there is no such thing. Supervision and the analysis consider the repetition of letters for the analysand, inscriptions and ascriptions that have effects on the bodies, even if they are written.
A little note to say,
On any day!
Try as you might,
Labels? Don't quite!
Just a note to say,
Not all, anyway!
It's a re(a)d flag! After all, semaphore cannot be anything else. Perhaps it is because of this that psychoanalysis doesn't interpret by re(a)d flags, nor other images like the tarot or astrology.
And, some ascriptions may be modes of enjoyment and suffering that should remain in place, for some subjects may try and hold themselves together with them.
But formations of the unconscious are the effects of repressed signifiers, inscriptions and fantasy, and interpretations in the transference in the analysis may have effects there.
Trans(formation) has been around for a very very long time. Some ancient initiation rites and rites of passage sometimes included the transformation of gender and identity. Bodies have also gone under the knife, even before anything surgical.
Transformation is a passage, we could say it, even for us all, but it is not limited to the modes of gender and identity.
Nor is it in the brain, or the groin. Transformation cannot simply be localised to one organ or another, but will likely include some questions about what is wanted, who one wants to be and what questions the transformation may eventually pose, that have not yet been possible.
Psychoanalysis is a formation and in that way, it too is a trans, even if a diagnosis has been made.
Fees: They Too Are For Goods And Services
The fees of psychoanalysis, even if they are low, are agreed by the analyst, after all it is their clinic. Fees can be renegotiated if the analyst thinks it would support the analysis, but they are always due and there may be indications from the analysis that reductions, allowances and negotiations may not be indicated for the direction of the analysis.
The facts of the matter under the goods and services act are that payment is due upon receipt of goods and services and late payments may incur interest. If a person has capacity and requests an appointment with the knowledge that there is a fee, and requests further appointments, then the fee can be expected.
Failure to pay without telling the analyst can be considered theft, and if the fee is deliberately withheld then intentional deception may also be considered along with other forensic material such as sadistic traits etc. The analyst may have forensic experience but even if they do they may wish to appoint a specialist forensic supervisor who can help them, in addition to their usual supervisor, in some cases.
And, the fee in a Lacanian clinic does not equate with time and the analyst is unlikely to charge by the minute or by the hour. This is made clear at the start during the initial meetings and assessment: it is the speech of the analysand that punctuates the appointments.
People have been taking all sorts of things for 1000's of years: tonics, potions, hallucinogens, hypnotics, stimulants, alcohol, pills, vapours and smoke. Orgies, festivals, parties and happenings have also been around since forever.
Temporary and sometimes permanent ways to loose yourself, to go out of your mind, to relieve some pain, to escape and to simply have a good time are aims that include greater or lesser excess, pain and enjoyment, even during sex, and even during sex with yourself.
Nothing particularly new, we could say, but some current preoccupation with other peoples sex lives might be. The level of intrigue is probably more interesting than the topic.
Psychoanalysis is not concerned with a professionalisation of life and even worse a regulation of peoples sex lives. Enjoyment and suffering may be articulated in psychoanalysis, but only if you want to.
The analyst will generally appoint a supervisor, or more, when there is some interest in the supervisor's work. After all, to appoint a supervisor is in itself an acknowledgement that the analyst doesn't know everything.
And, the analyst may change the supervisor, even if they want to: it is the analysts' choice who they wish to employ. Any demands from doctrinaire trainings for sameness, fixed ideas about frequency and indoctrination should be thoroughly questioned. The fee of the supervisor can be claimed back as an expense of the analysts' clinic, but only if the analyst can afford it.
And, accurate details about signifiers, formations, dreams, diagnosis, history etc. given by the analyst to the supervisor, assures the analyst has taken reasonable and responsible means to support their clinic and their insurance. Since when could the supervisor work without them.
And, like anyone, the analyst will have their own symptoms that may include formations such as hysterical mutism, aphonia and amnesias and the analyst may sometimes use notes to assist their access to supervision in this way, too, if they wish.
Any supervisor and so-called training that are prejudice against symptoms and formations can be disregarded on the grounds of discrimination.
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