This will take some work.
I’m starting this blog before I begin my Three-Year Clinical Training in Psychoanalysis at the Centre for Lacanian Analysis (CLA) in Auckland, New Zealand.
Last year I completed the foundation course, and the timing couldn’t have been better. I’d been at a point of real uncertainty about the future, having moved through a lot of different directions without landing anywhere that felt right. Nothing had stuck. And then this did. Everything just lined up in a way that felt almost too convenient. A total godsend. Or Othersend?
Psychoanalysis is hard for me. Study in general is painstakingly difficult. Focus, motivation, all of it. But AI helps by breaking things down, and that’s made it more approachable.
I’ll be upfront: I don’t really understand that much yet. I have a working grasp of the basics, enough to explain Lacanian psychoanalysis to someone on the street, or to distinguish it from ego-centred approaches. I know the key terms. But I haven’t absorbed the big texts, and that’s something I’m a little scared about. I’ve read bits here and there, watched things here and there, but full books intimidate me and I haven’t found my way into a real reading practice yet. I’m hoping this blog and the accountability that comes with it will get me there.
And honestly? I’m not sure I deserve lacan.blog as a domain. But nobody claimed it before me, so I guess it’s literally my destiny.
