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presents the:

XVIIth Symposium

Celebrating thirty years

Transmission in psychoanalysis and beyond

Cliff Burtt, 1989
Saturday, July 2, 2016

2.00pm - 9.30pm
Treacy Conference Centre,
126 The Avenue, Parkville.

PROGRAM

1.30pm - 2.00pm:
Registration

2.00 - 2.10pm:
Introduction:
Silvia Rodríguez, President of the ACP

2.10 - 3.10pm:
A reflection on psychoanalysis in the Twenty First Century
Leonardo S. Rodríguez

‘They bark, Sancho, a sign that we are moving!’
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quijote de la Mancha

Born in the Nineteenth Century, a survivor of wars and other calamities, our dear
psychoanalysis is still going – sometimes trotting, other times galloping, most
of the time just walking, but always moving. Its workers, as well as those who
have had the courage to embark in its experience, and those who have found it a
helpful tool for their research in their own disciplines have kept it alive and well for
the last hundred and twenty years, in ways that are rather modest, not particularly
popular, yet creative.
Leonardo S. Rodríguez is a psychoanalyst and a founding member of the ACP and
of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field.

Luck, Influences, Sayings and Choices
Carmela Levy-Stokes

A brief journey through the influences that drew me to psychoanalysis and the
teachings that have marked me and kept me in the field.
Carmela Levy-Stokes is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She worked for many
years in clinics and hospitals in London and Melbourne. She is a member of
the ACP and has been involved in the ACP since its inception in 1986. She has
published papers and was a teacher with the Institute for Training of the ACP.

Symptom and Cause: Transmission of the Non-Transmittable
Serena Smith

There are three pillars to psychoanalytic training: analysis, supervision of cases, and
theoretical studies. For Lacan, the desire of the analyst emerges fundamentally
linked to the singular, an analyst’s symptom and cause. So can we say, in Lacanian
terms, the existence of a symptom and cause are the conditions necessary for the
formation of an analyst. Remember Lacan did not recognise a separate category
called “the training analysis”. What then is the place for the institution in the
transmission of psychoanalysis? These ideas are explored in an anecdotal account
of the emergence of the desire of an analyst.
Serena Smith is a registered analyst of the ACP and an analyst in private practice.
She has been involved in the activities of the ACP since 1990 and currently co-
ordinates and teaches in the Program of Clinical and Theoretical Studies. Serena
has a particular interest in working with children and adolescents.

To give voice to the one who does not speak
Helena Sandahl

The question of the child’s voice has legal pertinence. It is often assumed that the
child is too young to be able to express her views and opinion on a matter. In the
case of the infant, the one who does not speak, this assumption is automatic: some
reflections on psychoanalysis transmitted in a Children’s Court and beyond.
Helena Sandahl is a psychoanalyst, a member of the Australian Centre for
Psychoanalysis, of the International Forums of the Lacanian Field, Senior Clinical
Psychologist at the Children’s Court of Victoria Clinic. She teaches in the ACP’s
Program of Theoretical and Clinical Studies.

Journeys through the Centre of Australia
Barbara Hübl

Reflections on transmission framed by contemporaneous experiences of Lacan
Symposia, the Centre’s Program of Studies and a Pitjantjatjara Bush College.
Barbara Hübl is a member of the ACP, the Forum of Melbourne and the School of
Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field.

The Singular Case History
Lena Andary

Freud’s case histories have shaped the theory and praxis of psychoanalysis as we
know it. For over one hundred years they have been transmitted, affording us all
the opportunity to learn in the way that Freud did: from the clinic.
Lena Andary is a clinical psychologist, a registered practicing analyst and a teacher
with the ACP, as well as a member of the Forum of Melbourne. She works in private
practice and has had extensive experience working with psychosis, as well as a
clinical and research interest in psychoanalysis with children.

3.10 - 3.30pm:
Afternoon tea

3.30 - 4.30pm:
What resonates?
Susan Schwartz

What is transmitted in an analysis? What can be transmitted of an analysis? What is
transmissible about psychoanalysis itself? These questions provide the context for
considering what can be transmitted beyond the question of what can be known,
or is knowable, for the response is crucial with regard to the procedure of the pass
and the transmission of the desire of and for psychoanalysis upon which the future
of psychoanalysis depends.
Susan Schwartz is an analyst in private practice, a registered practising analyst with
the ACP and Analyst Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the International
Forums of the Lacanian Field. She is a member of the International College of the
Guarantee of the School of Psychoanalysis, 2014-2016. Her research, teaching and
writing addresses current psychoanalytic questions.

The transmission of psychoanalysis as simple and odd
Julie-Anne Smith

A simple theoretical account of the transmission of psychoanalysis and its oddity in
the clinical experience of psychoanalysis.
Julie-Anne Smith is a member of the ACP, of the CoM and of the Forum of
Melbourne. She has a background in education and a specialisation in social media.
Julie-Anne is involved in the study and research in the clinical and theoretical work
of psychoanalysis.

Curiosity and Desire in Psychoanalysis
Peter Ellingsen

Psychoanalysis cannot be taught but it can be transmitted. This is the realm of
curiosity and surprise, leaving enough unsaid so that the other can find their own
way. It is a process that mirrors how desire is first created, and therefore how a
subject is born. In this short paper I will explore the place of curiosity and desire in
both a personal analysis and in the transmission of psychoanalysis.
Peter Ellingsen is a psychoanalyst in private practice and author of numerous articles
and books, most recently, A History of Psychoanalysis in Australia.

The transmission of psychoanalysis in the treatment of people with
psychosis in institutions
Belinda Mackie

Transmission is the act or process of causing, conveying or passing something
from one place or person onto another. In this paper I plan to map my trajectory
over the last decade during the course of a PhD and book publication as outward
evidence of the transmission of the work of psychoanalysis in both the treatment of
psychosis and its application in institutions.
Belinda Mackie has been a registered psychoanalyst in private practice for over
two decades. She is a member of the ACP and the Forum of Melbourne and she
teaches and presents her work at conferences and seminars both nationally and
internationally. Based on her PhD thesis, her book Treating people with psychosis in
institutions: A psychoanalytic perspective was published by Karnac in January this
year.

A desire for the unspeakable
Esther Faye

How can the psychoanalyst transmit a desire for what is unspeakable? It is the
unspeakable real towards which someone who dares to come to a psychoanalyst
has to be led, yet how to transmit such a desire for their singular mode of
jouissance when the very term unspeakable intimates the horror that such
an encounter can provoke? I hope to be able to say something about my
understanding of this precise question of the desire of/for psychoanalysis.

Esther Faye is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a Registered Practicing
Psychoanalyst with the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis and Analyst Member of
the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field. She is a teacher
in the ACP’s Program of Theoretical and Clinical Studies in Psychoanalysis, has
been for some years on the editorial committee of the ACP’s journal Analysis, and
regularly presents and publishes her own research in Australia and internationally.

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Ofelia Brozky

This paper will address the question of how, and from where, the transmission of
psychoanalysis occurs, given that psychoanalysis is a discourse with a hole in re-
lation to unconscious knowledge (savoir). In addition, a brief history of Lacanian
psychoanalysis in Sydney will be given, as well as some playful references to letters,
signifiers, identification and identity.
Ofelia Brozky is a Registered Practising Analyst. She is a member of the ACP and of
the Melbourne Forum of the International of the Forums of the Lacanian Field. She
is the Convenor of the Sydney Lacan Seminar.

4.30 - 4.50pm:
Refreshments

4.50 - 6.00pm:
The role of the Auslan interpreter in applied psychoanalysis
Helen Kennedy

This short paper will examine some of the considerations that have been the
subject of inquiry when a third person enters the applied psychoanalytic process
at the very level, that of language, that enables that process to take place. The
Auslan interpreter brings to the process their linguistic training and interpreting
skills and their own singular drama which effects the various transmissions in this
setting.
Helen is a long time member of the ACP and works in private practice and for the
lead advocacy and support agency for Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Victoria. She
has worked with 14 different culturally and linguistically diverse spoken language
interpreters in the field of diagnosis and early intervention for deaf children and their
families and for the past 15 years has worked with Auslan interpreters in applied
psychoanalysis.

Object cause of desire in the words of Elena Ferrante
Carl Scuderi

The works of Elena Ferrante have recently become popular in Australia with the
translation and publication of her Neapolitan novels. Having read them all, plus a
few earlier ones, I became amazed at the extraordinary quality of her transmission
of the most intimate, complex and terrifying accounts of being, in woman, in
motherhood, in female sexuality, in all her woman protagonists. There are many
interesting threads here, but the thread of loss, and the place of the object cause
of desire run continuously from the start to the end, wherever you start reading.
Carl Scuderi is a registered practising analyst with the Australian Centre for
Psychoanalysis. He is also a clinical member of PACFA, and a psychologist with
clinical and forensic endorsement with AHPRA. He works as an analyst in private
practice and at the Children’s Court Clinic.

Luck and desire on entering the pathway to the formation of an analyst
Veronica Sinclair

This paper is a personal account of how the writer entered into the world of
psychoanalytic praxis. It is also the story of how this experience has formed her
hopes for the future.
Veronica Sinclair is a registered practising analyst and teacher of the Centre. She
works both in community health and private practice.

Transmission of Psychoanalytic Concepts within the University Discourse on
Music
Jillian Graham

In coordinating a fourth-year Bachelor of Music Honours subject at the Melbourne
Conservatorium of Music (Melbourne University) in 2015 and 2016, ‘Music
Management & Enterprise’, I find that psychoanalytic concepts quite naturally
inform my approach. In this brief presentation, I attempt to convey how I believe
this occurs, albeit without the use of psychoanalytic signifiers, and in a non-clinical
setting.
Jillian Graham is a member of the ACP and the Forum of Melbourne and an Analyst
in Training. She runs her own boutique writing and editing business, and is very
involved in music, lecturing part-time in the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at
Melbourne University, and singing in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
She has a particular interest in the transmission of psychoanalysis in the media and
in other contexts beyond the psychoanalytic clinic.

Transmission in psychosis
Carmel Fahey

The nature of the signifier is both limiting and enabling of a social bond. The
question is therefore raised as to what is transmitted in psychoanalytic treatment
with a psychotic subject. Through a clinical excerpt this paper seeks to examine a
particular transmission in a case of psychosis.
Carmel Fahey is a clinical psychologist, practising psychoanalyst and member of the
ACP. She works at the Children’s Court Clinic and in private practice in Melbourne.

Transference and Transmission
Silvia Rodríguez

Psychoanalysis presented Freud with the phenomena of transference in the
treatment: transference as a problematic social bond, the most genuine and the
most troubled. Yet the knowledge derived from the transference-relation in the
privacy of the treatment can be applied to the public field and is intimately linked
to the transmission of psychoanalysis.
Silvia A. Rodríguez is a psychoanalyst and a founding member of the ACP, an
Analyst Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian
Field. She teaches and researches on crucial problems in psychoanalysis.

6.00 - 6.15pm:

The ACP and the
International of the

Forums of the
Lacanian Field

Barbara Hübl
The Forum of Melbourne of the International of Forums-School
of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field: the ACP and the
international community.
Barbara Hübl is the current Delegate of the Forum of Melbourne.

Susan Schwartz
The International College of the Guarantee of the School of Psychoanlysis of
the Forums of the Lacanian Field.
Susan Schwartz is a member of this College.

Leonardo S. Rodríguez
The College of Representatives of the International of Forums of the
Lacanian Field.
Leonardo Rodríguez is a member of this College.

6.30 - 9.30pm:
Cocktail Party, Art Exhibition and Music

6.30pm: Art exhibition by artists that are
connected to the psychoanalytic discourse

Rimona Kedem
Widely acclaimed Israeli-born artist Rimona Kedem has exhibited inter-nationally
since 1962. Her work is held in public and private collections around the world.
Formally trained at the Avni Art Academy in Tel Aviv, she was awarded a scholarship
to the Art Academy of Mexico. She has held numerous lecturing positions at
schools and universities around the world. Her stunning paintings on glass and lead
glass windows have decorated mayor synagogues in Melbourne. Her paintings are
evocative, lyrical and draw on the comic-tragic metaphysical fabric of life.
Rimona describes herself as a survivor with great difficulty. She still paints by mental
associations. She first produces optical chaos on the canvas so that it is not white.
Then it starts to register as one thing brings the next. Her mind works with pictures.
It is a therapeutic journey.

Susan Wyers
Susan Wyers is a practising artist since 1984 and is based in Melbourne. Her
exhibitions include twelve solo shows and many group exhibitions in public and
commercial galleries. Her work is held in various private and public collections. She
holds a Masters Degree and a Bachelor Degree, both in Fine Arts. She has taught
painting at RMIT University and Victoria University. Susan is currently studying at the
ACP.

Tim Bass
b. 1944. Educated at the University of Sydney, a Lecturer in painting for many years
at the Victorian College of the Arts. He has shown his work in numerous exhibitions
in Australia and overseas. His work is part of many private and public institution’s
collections. Some of them being: Caufield Arts Center, Baillieu Myer Collection, and
Walter & Eliza Hall Institute.

Peter Garnick
A photographer for over forty years, Peter also works in the printmaking medium of
photopolymer etching. He regularly exhibits and works on commission. His artworks
are represented in public, private and corporate collections in the USA, the UK and
Australia. In addition to his own art practice, Peter curates photographic and print
exhibitions in various Melbourne and regional galleries.

Cliff Judge
One of the founding members of the Australian Centre for Psychoanalysis,
Cliff Judge (1928-2002; MB, BS, DPM, FRANZCP, BA) studied medicine at
Melbourne University and subsequently psychiatry at London University. He worked
as a child psychiatrist mainly for the Victorian Health Department in its intellectual
disability services, and was employed at Kew Cottages in Melbourne, an institution
dedicated to the care of intellectually disabled people, for fourteen years.
Cliff was the author of three books: Retarded Australians (Melbourne University
Press, 1975), Civilization and Mental Retardation: A History of the Care and
Treatment of Intellectually Disabled People (Chase Just Publishing, 1987) and Kew
Cottages: The World of Dolly Stainer (Spectrum Publications, 2002; co-authored
with Fran van Brummelen). This last work, a biography of a woman who lived at Kew
Cottages for 75 years, was based on oral history collected by the Kew Cottages
Historical Society, of which Cliff was a founding member. Cliff also wrote several
scholarly articles, mainly concerning genetic conditions, but also on the history
of children and on the art of the intellectually disabled. His article ‘Psychoanalysis
and intellectual disability’ was published by the Centre for Psychoanalytic Research
in 1988. Cliff was Editor of the Australian Journal of Mental Retardation (later the
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabiliities) and president
of the Australian Group for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency. He made
an important contribution to medical genetics through his work on the Fragile-X
chromosome, now known to be a common cause of intellectual disability.
Cliff was an accomplished painter. His oil paintings of flowers and landscapes,
particularly of the bush and sea around Anglesea, won several awards and he held
many successful solo and group exhibitions. Cliff’s lifelong interest in art led him to
become a foundation member in 1965 of the Australian Medical Association Art
Group. And in 1974 he was also one of the founders of Arts Project Australia, an
organisation dedicated to the development of the artistic expression of people with
an intellectual disability.

Juan Dávila
Juan Dávila, artist, born in Santiago, Chile in 1946. Arrived in Australia en 1974
and lives and works in Melbourne. Studied at the Colegio Verbo Divino and the
Law School and the Fine arts Schools of the University of Chile. He has exhibited
extensively in Australia and overseas. His work is in all the State Gallery collections
in Australia. Main exhibitions were a retrospective in 2005 at the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Sydney and National Gallery of Victoria, São Paulo Biennale,
Documenta.
Miegunya Press published a book on his work. Represented by Kalli Rolfe.
Juan, has kindly offered to present to us a book that contains part of his trajectory
as an artist, as it was not possible this time to present a piece of his work.

Elizabeth Newman
Elizabeth Newman is an artist and psychoanalyst. She trained as a psychoanalyst
with the ACP during the 1990s and since that time she has been a member and
a friend of the ACP. In the 1980s Elizabeth trained at the Victorian College of the
Arts and begun her career as an artist. Since then she has exhibited many times
both in Australia and overseas, and her work is in major national and international
collections. As an artist she is represented by Neon Parc gallery in Melbourne, and
she works in private practice as a psychoanalyst.
She is not presenting a piece of her work in this exhibition but a book that shows
a collection of her work which is commented by many well known artists. Very
important to notice is the introduction Elizabeth wrote to this excellent book.

Peter Garnick has thoughtfully and genourously curated this exhibition.

7.30pm: Music

Manuel Vaca (DJ)
Manuel has over two decades experience DJing a huge range of diverse events
across Australia. He specialises in Latin American and other world music and
features at numerous festivals and events such as Byron Latin Fiest, the Spanish film
Festival and as a regular guest on PBS radio. He is also a dancer and percussionist.

Fabio Robles
Tango performer. Recognised internationally as a virtuoso dancer of the traditional
Malambo, Fabio Robles pioneered Latin American Dance throughout Australia, as a
performer, teacher and choreographer.
He has directed and choreographed the launch of the Arts 21, Ole Ola Latin
American Dance spectacular, Tango with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Ritmo
Argentina, Melbourne Moomba Festival, tango- The Passion of Piazzola, plus
numerous stage shows.
In 2003 Fabio was awarded by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, a Centenary Medal
to mark his achievements for services to multicultural music and Latin American
Comunities of Australia.

Natalie Gamsu
Natalie Gamsu is a singer, actor and cabaret artist whose performances have been
acclaimed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney
and Johannesburg.
She was born in Namibia and studied Drama at the University of Cape Town, South
Africa. Cabaret has always been her passion and she developed a strong following
in South Africa, with her solo shows. She was also active in musical theatre, and
television
Natalie lived in Manhattan (New York) from 1992 to 2003. There she continued her
love of cabaret at the famous Oak Room, Fez and The Russian Tea Room. She won
the Backstage Bistro Award for Outstanding Vocalist and twice won a MAC Award
for Outstanding Female Vocalist. Her debut CD Weave received a MAC nomination
for Best New Recording. She recently released her second recording, Misfit.
Since moving to Australia in 2003, Natalie has performed in clubs in Sydney,
Melbourne, and Perth as well as at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. She has
continued to work in musical theatre (Women of Troy, Barry Kosky, STC), Mary
Poppins and most recently in the role of Abuela in Baz Luhrman’s Strictly Ballroom).
She also works on the large and small screens. Her most recent credits include
the on-going role of Jan Barton in the long running Australian soap Neighbours,
and the role of Fatima in the Feature Film, Ali’s Wedding, (produced by Matchbox
Films), which is in post-production.
www.nataliegamsu.net.

La Mauvaise Reputation
Chanson française et Gypsy swing
A four-piece ensemble, French swing virtuosos, authentic interpreters of the wild
rhythms and passion of 1930s Parisian hot jazz and melodies of classic French
Chanson. The group’s repertoire specialises in the timeless songs of Edith Piaf,
Charles Trenet, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Sablon and the unique sounds of Django
Reinhardt.
Paul Gillet, singer and rhythm guitarist. Paul has done extensive research into
French music of the early 20th Century.
Jon Delaney plays solo guitar, and is known as one of Australia’s most talented
Gypsy jazz guitarist.
Enzo Ruberto, impeccable bass player. Arrived from Italy in the mid 1990s.
Graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2000. He has performed
extensively locally and internationally as a member of Eddie Perfect’s touring band.
Salvatore Greco, accordionist since his childhood in Italy. He plays in a number of
Melbourne ensembles, including the Italian traditional music combo Bella Ciao.

Cliff Burtt, completed the Linocut of Freud’s head on the cover page of the program. Cliff
is a Sculptor whose work is in numerous public collections and in private collections in
Australia, Italy and the USA.

COST

XVIIth ACP Symposium
Saturday July 2nd
Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue Parkville, Victoria.

SYMPOSIUM AND CELEBRATION INCLUSIVE PRICES IN AUD
CELEBRATION (ONLY) - ADMISSION FEE
$50
$20

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For further information contact Jayson Rom at [email protected] or Barbara Hübl
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