Course Description: 

This program will pick up where the 2/26/26 NPI Program, Everything you always wanted to know about Laplanche (but were afraid to ask) left off, and continue exploring Jean Laplanche’s work in accessible terms. This program will also include a case presentation and discussion. Topics covered will include: A closer look at Laplanche’s view of the psychoanalytic clinical process and aims of treatment, including his concepts of the Fundamental Anthropological Situation, full and hollow transference, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, “the tub’, interpretation, translation, psychoanalytic sublimation and inspiration, Laplanche’s view of human temporality, loss, and mourning, Laplanche’s psychoanalytic theory of gender, sex, and the infantile sexuality, and Laplanche’s view of the relationship between psychoanalysis, political or other forms of ideology, and human freedom.

Course Objectives:

Participants will be able to discuss:

• Laplanche’s view of the psychoanalytic clinical process and aims of treatment.
• Laplanche’s view of human temporality, loss and mourning.
•  Laplanche’s psychoanalytic theory of gender, sex, and the sexual.
•  Laplanche’s view of the relationship between psychoanalysis, political or other forms of ideology and human freedom.

4 CE Credits Available

This conference will be held on Zoom.

9:00 am – 1:30 pm PT

NOTE: If you attended Dr. Mike Levin’s conference on 2/26/2026, you are eligible for a 15% discount on ticket prices. Please contact [email protected] to register if this is the case.