Title: Lost and found: the image in the drive Speaker: Peter Freund is a media artist and curator

based in the San Francisco Bay Area (USA). He is Associate Professor of Art Practice & Theory at Saint Mary's College of California. Freund edited and contributed to Trauma Desire Otherness (Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis, 2013), which came out of the 2012 Cartel Encounter. Summary: You cant step in the same river twice. So said the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. For psychoanalysis, the predicament is trickier: you can't step in the same river even once. Why? When you approach to dip your toe in the water, you catch a halting glimpse of your own image. The psychoanalytic tale of the so-called "mirror stage" dramatizes the image as neither decorative nor communicative medium but as symptomatic cause of the ideal ego. In the movement from ideal-ego to ego-ideal, the image becomes fundamentally tied in a knot with words. We find this knot everywhere in culture today. Typically, with the aid of words, the image functions as a defense against its own beyond. The image-word nexus in art, however, may offer a special occasion for activating the unconscious as the core of our subjectivity. Title: Acting for a reason, unconsciously Speaker: YAN Lap-Tak, Registered Social Worker Summary: The Unconscious is structured like a language. The logic of this language also prescribes how one chooses to act. However, I shall argue that the nature of this inference for action is a matter of articulation rather than of deduction. Title: From the talking cure to the listening cure Speaker: Diego Busiol is a practicing psychoanalyst in Hong Kong Summary: In 1895, before the term psychoanalysis was adopted, the verbal therapy offered by Freud was described as talking cure, or chimney sweeping. It was noticed that the very act of talking could alleviate the symptoms by discharging the energy repressed. However, Freud soon realized that the cathartic effect of talking was temporary, if not matched with an adequate listening. Indeed, I propose that the birth of psychoanalysis has been possible because of this shift from talking to listening. Listening is probably the term that best sums up and captures the essence of psychoanalysis, and this different emphasis on listening rather than talking is likely what distinguishes psychoanalysis from all other (more recent, but prepsychoanalytic) therapeutic approaches. But then: what listening? How to listen to the unconscious? Title: The Common Usage of Freuds Terms Speaker: Leung Tsz Kin is a student of Psychology in the University of Salford, member of Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis since 2012. He joined a cartel on Lacans Four Fundamental

Concepts in Psychoanalysis initiated by Diego Busiol and a weekly study group on Freuds Introductory Lecture on Psychoanalysis moderated by Yan Lap Tak in 2012. His interest is how Lacan sees human being psychoanalytically. Summary: Hong Kong is not the birthplace of psychoanalysis. Hong Kongs language and life style are hybrids resulted from western knowledge adapted through education. Local Chinese who use terms and language, typically the way how Americans talk, that many of them are originated from psychoanalytic theories. However, how much people are well aware of the meaning of those usages of the technical terms, which are not developed in the context of Chinese culture. Title: Psychotic Discourse in time of Post-Ideologies Speaker: Cyril Su is a founding member of the Hong Kong Society of Psychoanalysis and Lacan Society in Hong Kong since 2007. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice in both Hong Kong and China. In 2013, he starts the first Lacanian Cartel in Ningbo, China where he leads a weekly lecture. In June 2013, Cyril talked in TEDxMoonlake conference about 3.0 Age and Psychoanalysis. He also works with a German toymaker in developing educational toy. Summary: Language circumcises. It ritualizes the symbolic with a cut into the Real of patriarchal law. Psychotic discourse encounters this cut as a foreclosure that the name of the Father is erased before it authorizes the Oedipal drama. Psychotic discourse conforms to dissemination, reflective ratification and symptomatic return to the cut. This is especially understood as a symptom of the Post-Ideologies, a time when Master Signifier aka the Name of the Father is no longer valid.