We invite you to take part in the international psychoanalytic conference, which will be held from October 1 to 4 at Lake Sevan, Armenia.
Members of the International Psychoanalytical Association from different cities and countries will present theoretical papers on the conference theme, which will be discussed in discussion groups.
Conference participants will have the opportunity to discuss clinical material in groups in Russian and English, as well as during individual supervisions (individual supervisions must be arranged in advance with any member of the Program Committee).
IPA members and candidates, as well as professionals interested in psychoanalytic training, are invited to participate.
The number of participants is limited.
Dear colleagues, it’s our pleasure to invite you to participate in the third conference, "The Resonant Silence of Après-Coup," which will be devoted to the relatively neglected concept of Nachtraglichkeit. We invite you to enter the metatheatre of the analytic concept of the "enigmatic signifier." (J. Laplanche). Discussions during our previous conferences devoted to trauma and regression naturally lead us to this line of inquiry.
In 1895, S. Freud introduced a concept of Nachtraeglichkeit (in German), later rendered as après-coup (in French) in French, and as последействие (in Russian), as deferred action( in English).
This concept designates a process through which past, silent events, experiences, and traumas acquire a new significance within analytic work.
The word " Nachtraeglichkeit" derives from the verb "Tragen," which means "to carry." The suffix "keit" signifies "a state" or process extended over time, and the prefix "nach" is close to the Russian word for "after" (compound words in German are translated from the end of the word).
The challenges of translating this concept into other languages has sparked debate in the psychoanalytic community.
The word « Nachtraeglichkeit" was first mentioned in Freud’s work " Entwurf einer Psychologie" (1895), illustrated by the well-known case of Emma. In this work, published posthumously, Freud gives a first detailed account of the mechanism of "Nachträglichkeit." He shows how a past event an early experience (a visit to a bakery of a little girl at the age of eight) acquires traumatic significance only after puberty following a second event at the age of 12. In 1896, in a letter to W. Fliess, Freud describes the process of rewriting psychic traces (Niederschriften), indicating that memory is reworked in accordance with new circumstances and the level of development achieved. During his illness, when Freud gave up smoking cigars he wrote to his friend about his suffering, "there's a lack of warmth in my mouth." This prompted him to reflect on the origins of this state of mind in infancy. It is here that he uses the word term Nachtraeglichkeit, "the material that forms mystical traces is from time to time, depending on the circumstances, subject to rearrangement and rewriting" (Freud to Fliess, 1896).
Freud later applied this concept to the case of Emma, Dora, and the Wolf Man (1918).
In his 1945 article "Logical Time and the Affirmation of Anticipatory Certainty," Lacan reintroduced the concept of après-coup, but in a far more complex way, than Freud.
Laplanche and Pontalis wrote that this concept is linked to the notion of "psychic time and causality," the nonlinearity of psychic time temporality. In his theory of seduction (1987), Laplanche viewed après-coup as a twofold process: regression (backward motion): a new present event "revives" an old trace, and progression (forward motion): the original message was already a "message from the future," waiting to be translated.
When we discuss après-coup, we are not talking about continuity, but a structure of meaning based on the discontinuity of forward movement (Green, 2000). The process of après-coup affects the experience of time, accelerating or slowing it down.
In everyday experience , the analyst listens to the patient with a "free floating" attention, without any specific goals or intentions. Then the patient may say or do something that triggers in the analyst a memory of something previously mentioned by the patient. What was said or done gives a new retrospective meaning to the material rediscovered by the analyst. Sometimes this is the starting point for interpretation. (G. Diatkine)
In analysis, the patient works through past events in après-coup, and that is the very revision that imparts meaning and makes previously silent events acquire start resonating.
In transference, the analyst reinterprets the patient's past experiences at a symbolic level. In light of modern psychoanalytic views, we can also speak of the archaic, the unrepresented, which receives its meaning in analysis through après-coup (R. Roussillon).
The return of unintegrated experiences into the psyche may occur in the form of hallucinations provoking a “borderline situation”; the somatic body “speaks,” trying to relate a story dominated by sensory-perceptual and motor records. (Roussillon, 2014)
Programme
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Breakfast
Participant registration
Official opening and welcome
- Moderators: Ivan Koryukin (Yerevan), Elena Zhilinskaya (Minsk), Svetlana Carrère (Saint Petersburg, Paris)
First plenary session
Rethinking the patient’s Nachträglichkeit and the psychoanalyst’s free-floating attention
- Speaker: Vladislav V. Ermak (Rostov-on-Don, Moscow)
- Discussant: Tatyana Avdeeva (Saint Petersburg)
- Moderator: Natalia Antipova (Saint Petersburg)
Coffee break
Small-group discussions
Plenary discussion
- Moderator: Elena Zhilinskaya (Minsk)
Lunch
Supervision in small groups
Coffee break
Welcome reception and evening in memory of Alexey Koryukin
- Moderators: Svetlana Bashkatova (Stavropol), Ivan Koryukin (Yerevan)
Dinner
Panel
Après-coup in childhood and adolescence
- Presenters: Donald Campbell, Vladislav V. Ermak
- Moderator: Svetlana Carrère (Saint Petersburg, Paris)
Breakfast
Round table with representatives of local societies, colleagues, IPA members and candidates
- Moderators: Elena Zhilinskaya (Minsk), Armine Gmyur-Karapetyan (Gyumri), Helena Karaczun, Berdj Papazian, Arthur Tonoyan Nekrasov (Yerevan)
Coffee break
Second plenary session
The place of après-coup in interpretation
- Speaker: Gilbert Diatkine (Paris) — online
- Discussant: Dmitry Freydman (Tbilisi, Saint Petersburg)
- Moderator: Vyacheslav Dorodeyko (Vitebsk)
Plenary discussion
- Moderator: Vyacheslav Dorodeyko (Vitebsk)
Lunch
Third plenary session
When the past repeatedly intrudes into the present
- Speaker: Christoph Walker
- Discussant: Diana Pipinashvili (Tbilisi)
- Moderator: Marina Gulina (Saint Petersburg, London)
Coffee break
Small-group discussions
Plenary discussion
- Moderator: Diana Pipinashvili (Tbilisi)
Dinner
Après-coup in art: “Weaving Colour, Fabric and Meaning” (art quilt)
- Presenter: Svetlana Carrère (Saint Petersburg, Paris)
- Moderator: Natalia Antipova (Saint Petersburg)
Breakfast
Fourth plenary session
A perpetrator’s legacy spanning two generations: from agony to mourning and understanding
- Speaker: Eva Schmid-Gloor
- Discussant: Marina Gulina (Saint Petersburg, London)
- Moderator: Svetlana Carrère (Saint Petersburg, Paris)
Coffee break
Small-group discussions
Plenary discussion
- Moderator: Svetlana Carrère (Saint Petersburg, Paris)
Lunch with invited guests
Fifth plenary session
L’après-coup et l’avant-coup. Discussion
- Speaker: René Roussillon (Lyon)
- Moderator: Elena Zhilinskaya (Minsk)
Discussion of Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona
- Discussants: Dmitry Freydman (Tbilisi, Saint Petersburg), Vladislav V. Ermak (Rostov-on-Don, Moscow)
- Moderator: Diana Pipinashvili (Tbilisi)
Dinner
Meeting of IPC members with ING representatives
Breakfast
Sixth plenary session
The multidimensionality of “split” time: a retrospective echo
- Speaker: Natalia Popova (Stavropol)
- Moderator: Elena Zhilinskaya (Minsk)
Supervision for IPC members
- Clinical case presented by Tatyana Avdeeva (Saint Petersburg)
Coffee break
Book presentation
- Participants: Gilbert Diatkine, Vyacheslav Dorodeyko, Svetlana Carrère
- Moderator: Natalia Antipova (Saint Petersburg)
Lunch
Round table on psychoanalytic training
- Moderators: Vladislav V. Ermak (Rostov-on-Don, Moscow), Tatyana Avdeeva (Saint Petersburg), Mikhail Erish (Saint Petersburg)
Coffee break
Supervision in small groups
Conference wrap-up
- Moderators: Dmitry Freydman (Tbilisi, Saint Petersburg), Svetlana Carrère (Saint Petersburg, Paris)
Gala dinner
People
Speakers and moderators
In the conference programme
Antipova Natalia (Saint Petersburg)
Medical doctor and psychoanalyst; Chair of the Saint Petersburg Psychoanalytic Group; member of the Saint Petersburg Society for Child Psychoanalysis; member of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Avdeeva Tatyana (Saint Petersburg)
Psychologist and psychoanalyst; member of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Bashkatova Svetlana (Stavropol)
Psychologist and psychoanalyst; full member of the Stavropol Regional Psychoanalytic Association and member of its Training Committee; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association; head of the South Russian Psychoanalytic Society for IPA members and candidates.
Campbell Donald (London)
Training and supervising analyst and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society; former President of the Society and former Secretary General of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He worked for 30 years at London’s Portman Clinic as a child, adolescent and adult psychoanalytic psychotherapist, including a period as its Chairman.
Carrère Svetlana (Paris, Saint Petersburg)
Psychiatrist, PhD in Medicine; child and adult psychoanalyst; member of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the Saint Petersburg Psychoanalytic Group; member of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society.
Diatkine Gilbert (Paris)
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst; honorary member and former training analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, which he chaired from 1993 to 1995. He worked for 30 years as a child psychiatrist at the Le Coteau Psychotherapy Centre and practised psychoanalysis with adults and children for 45 years.
Dorodeyko Vyacheslav (Vitebsk)
Psychoanalyst; member of the Belarusian Psychoanalytic Study Group; member of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Ermak Vladislav V. (Rostov-on-Don, Moscow)
Clinical psychologist, PhD in Psychology, and psychoanalyst; member of the South Russian Psychoanalytic Society; member of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Freydman Dmitry (Tbilisi, Saint Petersburg)
Medical doctor, psychotherapist and psychiatrist; Treasurer of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association; member of the Georgian Psychoanalytic Society; member of the Saint Petersburg Psychoanalytic Group.
Gmyur-Karapetyan Armine (Gyumri)
Psychologist and psychoanalyst; member of the Armenian Psychoanalytical Association (ARPA); member of the International Psychoanalytical Association; President of the Arevamanuk Psychosocial Support Foundation.
Grusco Zinaida (Chisinau)
PhD in Psychology; psychoanalyst; Chair of the Moldovan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy; member of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Gulina Marina (Saint Petersburg, London)
Professor of Psychology; psychoanalyst and Direct Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association; member of the Saint Petersburg Psychoanalytic Group; Chartered Counselling Psychologist with the British Psychological Society; Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Karaczun Helena
Psychoanalyst; Direct Member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA); member of the Polish Psychoanalytical Society (PTPa); Head of the PTPa Organising Committee; member of the Belarusian Psychoanalytic Study Group; psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor and psychiatrist.
Koryukin Ivan (Yerevan)
Psychologist; observer member of the Stavropol Regional Psychoanalytic Association; Executive Director of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community.
Nekrasov Arthur Tonoyan (Yerevan)
Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst; member of the Armenian Psychoanalytical Association (ARPA); member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Papazian Berdj
Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst for children, adolescents and adults; former President of the Swiss Association for Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (ASUPEA); former Co-President of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society (SSPsa/SGPsa); member of the EPF Committee on Prejudice and Discrimination; member of the Scientific Committee for the annual congress.
Pipinashvili Diana (Tbilisi)
Psychologist, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, and psychoanalyst; Secretary of the Board of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Popova Natalia (Stavropol)
Clinical psychologist; candidate of the International Psychoanalytical Association; member of the South Russian Psychoanalytic Society; third-level associate member of the Stavropol Regional Psychoanalytic Association; member of its Training Committee.
Roussillon René (Lyon)
Psychoanalyst, full member and training analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society; Professor Emeritus of clinical psychology and psychopathology at Lumière University Lyon 2. He formerly headed the university’s Department of Clinical Psychology and the Lyon Institute of Psychoanalysis.
Schmid-Gloor Eva (Zurich)
Psychoanalyst in private practice in Zurich and a training analyst of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. She served as Vice-President of the European Psychoanalytical Federation until 2020 and has held several training and institutional roles within Swiss and European psychoanalysis.
Walker Christoph (near Tübingen)
Psychologist, psychotherapist, and training and supervising psychoanalyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Former chair of the German Psychoanalytical Association and former Deputy Director for individual training at the Han Groen-Prakken European Psychoanalytic Institute.
Yerish Mikhail (Saint Petersburg)
Clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst; member of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Zhilinskaya Elena (Minsk)
Psychologist and psychoanalyst; member of the Belarusian Psychoanalytic Study Group; Chair of the Board of the Integrative Psychoanalytic Community; member of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
A full refund is possible until September 1 upon written notice to the Organizing Committee at: icopsychoanalysis@gmail.com.
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A welcome cocktail will be offered at the conference venue. The location will be announced later.
A coffee break area will be set up during breaks.
Dinners are not included in the accommodation price. Conference participants can book them separately by completing the appropriate field on the registration form. There are also two restaurants on the Noy Land premises where you can dine independently.
A gala dinner will be held on the final day of the conference; it costs €40. Please indicate your desire to attend the gala dinner on the registration form.
The conference venue, the NoyLand complex, is located near Lake Sevan, also known as the "Armenian Sea" due to its size: the lake stretches for over 70 kilometers, with a surface area of nearly 1,500 square kilometers. Sevan is the region's primary source of drinking water and one of the largest high-altitude lakes in Europe and Asia, located in the heart of the Armenian Highland at an altitude of 1,914 meters.
Read more about Noy Land on their website.
- Double cottage, double bed, one bedroom (€77)
- Cottage for 4 people (double and two single beds) (€110)
- Bedroom in cottage, double bed (€55)
- Bed in bedroom with two beds (€30)
- Cottage for 4 people (4 single beds) (€110)
- Bed in bedroom with two beds (€30)
- Apartment for 4 people (€160)
- Bedroom in apartment, double bed (€80)
- Bed in bedroom with two beds (apartment) (€40)
- Bungalow for 2 people with fireplace - double bed (€160)
- Bungalow for 2 people - double bed (€160) €)
- Bungalow for 4 people with fireplace (€230)
- Bedroom in Bungalow for 4 people with double bed (€115)
- Bed in Bungalow for 4 people with two single beds (€60)
45600 AMD | 110 € night.
The cottage consists of two comfortable bedrooms (a double bed in one bedroom and two single beds in the other), a living room and a bathroom.
96000 AMD | 230 € night.
The bungalow features a fireplace, panoramic windows overlooking Lake Sevan, and a balcony. The ground floor houses a living room, while the second floor has two bedrooms.
68000 AMD | 160 € night.
The bungalow features a panoramic windows overlooking Lake Sevan, and a large balcony. The living room is on the ground floor, and the bedroom is on the second floor.
68000 AMD | 160 € night
The bungalow features a fireplace, panoramic windows overlooking Lake Sevan, and a balcony. The living room is on the ground floor, and the bedroom is on the second floor.
68000 AMD | 160 € night.
The apartment is split-level. The first floor features a balcony and a living room with panoramic windows overlooking Lake Sevan. The second floor has two bedrooms.
45600 AMD | 110 € night
The cottage consists of two comfortable bedrooms (two single beds in each bedroom), a living room and a bathroom.
32000 AMD | 77 € night.
The cottage consists of one comfortable bedroom (double bed), a living room and a bathroom.