Becoming an Analyst: Après-coup

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Posing the question of the time of becoming an analyst, this article answers with a particular framing of time as a signature of analytic formation as well as of the unconscious itself. The writing works as a poetics constructed inside and beyond psychoanalysis through citations from Freud and Lacan as well as quotations from writers, artists, and poets. Après-coup, this article unfolds the retrospective and future perfect tense of becoming an analyst, the desire of the analyst, the ethics of psychoanalysis and its transmission.

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Annie G. Rogers

Annie G. Rogers, Ph.D., is Analyst of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, San Francisco and Member of the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Ireland. She is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Hampshire College and directs its Psychoanalytic Studies Program. She also has a private practice. Her most recent book is Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language, published by Karnac Books.