The Perpetual Writing of the Dream (w/Diana Cuello via videolink)

Description: In this seminar, dream theory is considered as the navel of psychoanalytic work. In analysis, dreams can be thought of as little satchels of unconscious material produced for the analyst. These marvellous snippets can fuel analytic work in ways very little else can. So, how do we work with them? Diana will present signifier examples from her own clinic to illustrate condensation, displacement, repetition, and transference. Using creative writing exercises, she invites attendees to enter the perpetual play of the signifier in the symbolic order of sleep. Specifically, Diana will focus on the physical act of speaking a dream, on what is said as a result of its appearance, and then unfold toward the possibility of elaborating a long chain of significations to serve as scaffolding for an analytic case.

Note: Should attendees become interested in her work, they are cordially invited to attend a full one-year seminar that Diana will deliver through the Freud Lacan institute next year. In a case consultation setting, she will invite participants to consider their ear in the position of analyst with regard to the object a located at the rim of the dream vacuole. Placed in the position of writer, she will aid participants in thinking through the authorship of the dream, and the ex-timate quality of dreams in the clinic. She will also facilitate and encourage participants towards collecting dreams from their patients, and organizing them into a structure that will provide them with a poetic case conceptualization at the end of the series of meetings.

Bio: Diana Cuello has a PhD from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh and is an Analyst of the School at The Lacan School of Psychoanalysis, based in San Francisco. She lives in and offers a clinical practice in Pennsylvania.