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“In the beginning is the transference.” The word beginning makes me pause. What kind of beginning is meant here? This was the question I brought to a talk with Natalie Wülfing on transference, and it remained with me throughout the discussion. There is, of course, a historical beginning. Transference appears very early in Freud’s clinical work. What first emerged as a difficulty in the treatment gradually became impossible to separate from psychoanalysis itself. With Dora, th

On 28 September 2026, I will be moderating a conversation with Natalie Wülfing of the NLS Initiative Berlin as part of the FPD 2026 Talks. Taking Lacan’s formulation that “in the beginning of psychoanalysis is the transference” as a point of departure, the conversation will open questions around the place of transference at the beginning of an analysis, the position of the subject supposed to know, and the analyst’s relation to the position assigned to them within the transfe

Why should we examine Egon Schiele through a Lacanian lens? How does his work relate to melancholia and its treatment? His work offers a privileged site for thinking about the limits of representation, where desire, loss, and suffering emerge beyond the stabilizing effects of the Symbolic order. His art resonates with Lacan’s concept of jouissance, a pleasure that exceeds symbolic limits and verges on pain. Like a modern Orpheus, Schiele ventures beyond the pleasure principle

Join Dr. Deniz Kücüker (PhD in Psychology) and Clinical Psychologist Mert Akyol for an interactive workshop designed for expats and internationals with migration background in Hamburg. Through creative and therapeutic card-based exercises, we will explore themes of identity, belonging, emotional expression, and interpersonal communication. Date: Tuesday, 16 December Time: 19:30 – 21:30 Location: Expat Couch – Ottenser Hauptstrasse 3, 22765 Hamburg Language: English Capacity: