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The Parallax Gap:A reading from
Letters to a Young Therapist
Vincenzo Di Nicola
BOOK TALK Zizek Studies Conference 2012The College at Brockport, NY
Saturday, 28 April 2012
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The Parallax Gap:Viewing the Subject
That is Subject to Change
A reading fromLetters to a Young Therapist
Vincenzo Di NicolaProfessor of Psychiatry, University of Montreal
Doctoral candidate, EGS
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The Parallax Gap
• This talk, based on a book of letters to young therapists,reviews training experiences as both therapist and patient intwo opposed schools of therapy - behavior therapy andpsychoanalysis.
• These paradoxical experiences are described using SlavojZizek’s parallax view, applied clinically as the “parallax gap.”
• Attendees will be offered a Zizekian/Lacanian frameworkfrom a seasoned practitioner of therapy and a critical thinkerfor questioning what we mean by the subject and subjectivity,phenomenology, and change as a therapeutic goal. Change isunderstood as part of the larger question of the Event, basedon the work of Alain Badiou.
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Vincenzo Di Nicola
Institute of Psychiatry - 1976-78
MPhil, University of London - 1978
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Doc Martens & Levis
Skinhead chic
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National Front – Founded 1967
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Sex Pistols – October 1977
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Aldo Moro1916-1978
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25º Aniversário
da SPTF
1979_2004
TERAPIA DE CASAL
WORKSHOP
17 de Junho de 2004
Vincenzo Di Nicola José Gameiro
Auditório da Biblioteca MunicipaL
MONTEMOR-O-NOVO
Secretariado e informações: SPTFTelf: 213 555 193 Fax: 213 152 333Av. António Augusto Aguiar, 42–1ºD 1050-017 LISBOA
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New Bethlem Hospital
St. George’s Fields, Southwark, London – 1828
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Bethlem Royal Hospital
1896
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Bethlem Royal Hospital
Bromley, London - Since 1930
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Therapeutic Temperaments
• Technocratic temperament
• Phenomenological temperament
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The Parallax Gap
A shift in viewing position causing a subtle but important and irreduciblechange in perspective
- Slavoj Žižek (2006)
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The Parallax Gap
• Defamiliarization effect - Viktor Shklovsky
• Alienation effect (Verfremdungseffekt)- Bertolt Brecht
• Rashōmon effect - Yoel Elizur & Sal Minuchin
• Parallax gap - Slavoj Žižek
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The Art of Lenses
• Close ups and long shots
• Movement in therapy – “spiraling”
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Monty the Python
• Biological preparedness – continuum
• Learned behaviour
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1962
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1971
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A Clockwork Orange - 1971
Branom & Brodsky’s “Ludovico Technique” – Aversive conditioning
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The Tavistock Clinic
Since 1920
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R.D. Laing1927-1989
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Cartoon by Thomas Zummer
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