{"id":1885,"date":"2024-07-09T19:22:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T18:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2024-07-13T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T09:09:46","slug":"which-discourse-theory-lacan-emergency-capitalism-paranoia-fabio-vighi-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=1885","title":{"rendered":"Negative Empathy | Swales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Event date and location<\/span>: 28 March 2024, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"gm19f06ea\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m3 alignwide section-gm19f06ea gutentor-module gutentor-container-cover\"><div class=\"grid-container\">\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/95UYSuJ7KkU?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This Lacan in Scotland seminar &#8220;Empathy in the Age of the \u2018Subject-Supposed-to-be Empathic'&#8221; took place 28 March 2024 on Zoom. In it, Dr Stephanie Swales discusses the use of negative empathy in relation to contemporary society and the Lacanian psychoanalytic clinic, answering question such as: does empathy have a place in the Lacanian clinic? If so, how could it productively be used? These questions are answered with the use of recent research with practicing analysts. The event is chaired by Dr Amanda Diserholt, Secretary of Lacan in Scotland, and is followed by a Q&amp;A session with the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Video Sections:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=0s\">0:00<\/a> &#8211; Intro <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=90s\">01:30<\/a> &#8211; Empathy in society <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=442s\">07:22<\/a> &#8211; Subject-Supposed-to-be-Empathic <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=630s\">10:30<\/a> &#8211; Definitions of empathy <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=1044s\">17:24<\/a> &#8211; Imaginary empathy <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=1599s\">26:39<\/a> &#8211; Lacanian psychoanalytic practice <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=1743s\">29:03<\/a> &#8211; Negative empathy <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=2452s\">40:52<\/a> &#8211; Negative empathy in the imaginary <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=2596s\">43:16<\/a> &#8211; Negative empathy in the symbolic <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=2784s\">46:24<\/a> &#8211; Negative empathy in the real <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=3162s\">52:42<\/a> &#8211; Discussion with Amanda <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=95UYSuJ7KkU&amp;t=4009s\">01:06:49<\/a> &#8211; Q&amp;A with audience<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About the Event<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Empathy, as a way of understanding something about the other\u2019s experience, is thus a way of relating to others which is no less relevant to everyday social relations than it is to the analytic session room. Empathy is also a way to show love\u2014or hatred\u2014because it involves recognition, of recognizing or understanding someone\u2019s being. In this sense, it is part of the human condition to want to receive empathy or to be understood. As such, analysands frequently speak about wanting to be seen, recognized, and understood by the likes of friends, lovers, parents\u2026and of course by their analyst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In our contemporary moment, patients often enter into the various forms of the talking cure with a transference to what might be described as the subject-supposed-to-be-empathic. From this perspective, treatment is supposed to proceed in the imaginary by way of a clinician who will truly understand the patient. Empathy is generally thought to play a crucial role in the success of the treatment in psychotherapy and in most schools of psychoanalysis. However, empathy has been considered anathema to Lacanian psychoanalysis because its practice is considered to involve an imaginary order fantasy of the possession of accurate knowledge of another\u2019s experience. Instead, understanding for Lacan is always misunderstanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this presentation, however, Stephanie Swales asks the question: Is it possible to make use of empathy in a way that honors the non-rapport of the sexual relation and stems from the position of the analyst in Lacanian clinical practice? The answer, in short, is yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Stephanie Swales, Ph.D<\/strong><\/strong>. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Dallas, a practicing psychoanalyst, a licensed clinical psychologist, and a clinical supervisor located in Dallas, Texas. She is the author of two books:&nbsp;<em><em>Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch<\/em><\/em>&nbsp;(Routledge, 2019), co-authored with Carol Owens, and&nbsp;<em><em>Perversion: A Lacanian Psychoanalytic Approach to the Subject<\/em><\/em>&nbsp;(Routledge, 2012). She serves as an editor for the&nbsp;<em><em>PCS<\/em><\/em>review section of&nbsp;<em><em>Psychoanalysis, Culture &amp; Society<\/em><\/em>, member-at-large for the Association for Psychoanalysis, Culture &amp; Society as well as for the Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, and Secretary for the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (APA\u2019s Division 24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Event date and location: 28 March 2024, Online (Zoom)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings","category-video"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}