Dr. Luis Izcovich Lectures: THE ANALYST’S DESIRE

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The LSP Program Committee is enthusiastic to announce that Dr. Luis Izcovich will be joining LSP for two upcoming lectures on Saturday January 10, 2026 10-11:30 am PT and on Saturday, June 13, 2026 10-11:30 am PT. Both events will be held via Zoom. Please mark your calendars and see more details below. 

 

Requested donation for the two lectures is $250 for non-LSP members, LSP non–tuition-paying members and analysts, $150 for LSP candidates, and $100 for LSP precandidates, payable directly to LSP, with none turned away for lack of funds. 

 

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A total of 3 CE credits (1.5 CE credits per lecture) will be available at an additional cost of $25 per lecture, payable directly to GPPA. 

 

Lecturer: Dr. Luis Izcovich, MD, PhD (Paris—VIII), is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. He currently teaches at the College of the Psychoanalytic Clinic of Paris and practices psychoanalysis in Paris. He is a founding member of the International Forums of the Lacanian Field and its School of psychoanalysis, the SPFLF. Additionally, Izcovich is the author of several influential texts, including The Marks of a Psychoanalysis (2017). 

 

The Analyst's Desire

 

Through these two lectures, we will address a crucial moment in analytic practice, which corresponds to the emergence of the analyst's desire. Why and at what point does an analysand decide to take on the function of analyst?
 

Lacan needed to create a mechanism, the pass, to evaluate this desire. This does not preclude the fact that the enigma surrounding this desire goes through all the analytic experience.
 

First, this takes the form of: where does the desire to undergo an analysis come from in a context of discourse where the proposals available to modify the malaise of each individual in our world are constantly multiplying? Why psychoanalysis and not psychotherapy? Added to this is the enigma for the analysand concerning their analyst's desire.

But fundamentally, it will be a question of answering the question: where does the desire to be an analyst come from? Consistently, at every turn, what will be central to our development is the satisfaction of desire. Lacan asked himself how a subject experiences the drive after crossing the fantasy? Already here, we perceive the extent to which the binary of desire and drive is fundamental for him, which brings us back to the question of desire and satisfaction. This is already a common thread in Freud, since after inventing the unconscious, he was obliged to demonstrate that the unconscious alone does not account for what is in a position of control for a subject. He had to introduce the concept of drive.

A third term is essential to elucidate the development of desire in analysis: jouissance. Thus, if I had to condense into one sentence from Lacan what constitutes the thread of these lectures, I would choose this one: “car le désir vient de l’Autre, et la jouissance est du côté de la Chose” (“for desire comes from the Other, and jouissance is located on the side of the Thing”) (1)

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1- Lacan, J. (1966). Du “Trieb” de Freud et du désir du psychanalyste. In Écrits (pp. pp. 851–854). Paris: Seuil, p. 853. / Lacan, J. (2006). On Freud's "Trieb" and the Psychoanalyst's Desire. In Écrits: The first complete edition in English (B. Fink, Trans.; H. Fink & R. Grigg, Collaborators, pp. 722–725). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (Original work published 1966), p. 724.

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Bibliography:

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Lacan, J. (2006). Écrits: The first complete edition in English (B. Fink, Trans.; H. Fink & R. Grigg, Collaborators). New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (Original work published 1966)

Lacan, J. (1966). Écrits. Paris: Seuil.

 

Lacan, J. (1977). The four fundamental concepts of psycho-analysis (A. Sheridan, Trans.). London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis.

 

Lacan, J. (1976). Preface to the English-language edition of Seminar XI (J. Evans, Trans.). Retrieved from the Internet.

 

Izcovich, L. (2025). The clinical case in psychoanalysis: A Lacanian perspective (1st ed.). London: Routledge.

 

Izcovich, L. (2017). The marks of a psychoanalysis (1st ed.). London: Routledge.