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What is psychoanalysis


It is the possibility
for a subject to go towards unexplored dimensions of his or her life and to speak without censoring anything, however unimportant or indecent it may seem...

It is the possibility of going beyond failures and anguish, as well as beyond the effects that failures and anguish may have on the body or on relationships with others…

It is the possibility of leaving a way of life that is harmful to oneself and others…

It is the possibility of calming one’s anxieties, and it starts from words that are spoken and heard…

It is the possibility of treating symptoms and unexplainable illnesses…

It is the possibility of discovering what directs our lives unbeknownst to us. Sometimes, after many attempts to improve our lives, we find that not enough has changed and that the basic problem remains, so we have a sense that the problem may indeed reside within us…

Psychoanalysis entails working in depth, starting from the unconscious: dreams, symptoms, slips of the tongue, unintended actions like forgetting…

Psychoanalysis is work that is long-term and requires returning to memories, heard phrases, events that marked us, and to what it is from our history that we may be repeating in ways that don’t benefit us…

Psychoanalysis is work guided by an analyst who has already been through analysis and is able to recognize the indications of encounters with the unconscious. The analyst, having done the work of his own analysis, along with a rigorous process of formation, can support and guide another in this traveling this road…

Psychoanalysis is a project that requires a personal commitment and a financial investment. The frequency of sessions, the cost, and the mode of treatment are to be established with each individual…

Psychoanalysis entails working on the impasses in one’s life, places where the subject can mobilize creativity in the direction of profound change…

GIFRIC and it’s Canadian and American Circles offer, to any one who asks, a meeting of welcome, introduction, and information, where there is an opportunity to speak about what brings them in, what they want to solve, and what they are looking for in psychoanalysis, so that each person can decide whether to take this step.


"Psychoanalysis poses a question to the subject about his relationship to jouissance and death and does so through his or her experiences of illness, sex, despair, total impasse, paralyzing anxiety, and the feeling that the world is coming to an end...Also, psychoanalysis entails the development of a unique experience that resolves an individual's problems by calling upon that individual as a subject without received norms and by mobilizing all of his intimate resources, rather than by applying accumulated knowledge to an individual as an object to be corrected or forced to adapt to social changes."

Willy Apollon


Groupe interdisciplinaire freudien de recherche et d'intervention clinique et culturelle

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