To ask if anyone has done Lacanian Psychoanalysis?

[StarShank]

It's doing my bloody head in. Could really do with someone to chat to about it.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan

Yes - I love Lacan.

Are you applying it to anything in particular? I did a stonking essay on Fight Club using Lacan IIRC.

Oh, I thought you meant therapy with a Lacanian.

Yes, I'm doing some of it in my undergraduate degree

No that is what I meant.

Its shaking up literally everything I take for granted, he never empathises, my fucked up attachment style is just smacking me in the face...its just hard. I guess I don't understand why he seems so cold.

I don't think I could cope with a therapist like that. Why did you choose him?

Not every style of therapy or every therapist will work for every person. Get a new psychologist.

Theory and therapy are sometimes poles apart. Go with your heart, not the theory.

Psychoanalysis isn't "counselling" and isn't about making you feel comfortable. You might want to tell your analyst how you are feeling and how you are experiencing him... That might help you explore things further?

I'll tell him next time. Not that he will do anything but pretend to not understand
It is a good approach for me, I don't like the humanistic approach and I don't like ego psychology.
I love the way he does not tell me what I am thinking or feeling and it is creating change I just find itso hard.

Shameless bump

Funny, I think of it more or less as an approach within psychoanalytic literary criticism, not a therapeutic method. I can easily imagine it being spiky and uncomfortable, but then I have tended to roll my eyes at therapists who told me I was 'too hard on myself'...

Yeah see he would never presume to tell me whether I was being hard on myself or not.

I just need to man up.

What did you hope for from this therapy? How did you come to choose a lacanian psychoanalyst? I have the idea that you sought this out... And am interested in the apparent disparity between the idea and the experience. How long have you been seeing him?

I've had counselling and a couple of other types of therapy, I am pretty fine now, apart from this one issue that I am there for. I chose it as a bit of a last resort, fancied something a bit less softly softly. I don't need other peoples opinions....I guess it is just a lot less of 'holding environment' than I thought.

Been seeing him for a few months. It just happened to be that he is a Lacanian, I just wanted psychoanalysis, I didn't understand the difference between the different types of psychoanalysis when I first started.

I think I didn't take into account just how far away from Carl Rogers psychoanalysis is. I'm surprised I've fallen hook line and sinker tbh because he isn't kind!

I have had psychoanalysis but Jungian. I think all psychoanalysis feels like being shaken up, it certainly did for me. Ultimately it is the relationship between analyst and patient that is the important part as we use them to test things out. Theory is there to give a model or framework. I have found my analyst persecutory and attacking at times but also realise that this is because of my projections and transference. It takes a long time to work through these things. How long have you been having analysis?

I know Freud ? Lacan but after reading this I can't take that entire discipline seriously: www.richardwebster.net/freudwrong.html

I thought Lacan went out of vogue some time ago and was now confined to being a historical curiosity.

I'm not much help, but I was supposed to study him on my degree and ended up doing academic contortions to get out of it. It was part of my critical theory units, but I couldn't take it seriously even for that.

In layman's terms, I always filed him under 'useless, weird bullshit that means nothing and is a load of crap'.

I did still pass my degree just fine!

Anyhoo, I'd change if I were you and find someone who's more up to date with modern methods. A lot of stuff has changed since Lacan snuffed it, for starters!