IFS-001 | Pilot Episode | What is InForm: Seminar?

This is the first episode of what I hope will become a somewhat regular thing that I do. It is called InForm: Seminar, and it will be a companion to InForm: Podcast. However, unlike InForm: Podcast, which is always a conversation between at least one other person and me, InForm: Seminar will be just me talking (maybe teaching?) about some aspect of psychoanalysis. 

In this episode, I go into detail about why I'm making InForm: Seminar and what makes it different than my other podcasts.  

Hello and welcome to InForm: Seminar 001

What is InForm: Seminar?
I'm so glad you asked.
I'm going to give you a rather long-winded answer, which starts with some context/background info...

InForm: Podcast & InForm: Seminar

• I make another podcast called InForm:Podcast. 
• Which is a podcast where I try to have Informal & Informative conversations with people about psychoanalysis. 
• I've been doing that podcast for some time.
• When I'm not making that podcast, I do other things... 
• One of those things is being a. University professor. 
• During the COVID years, I started to record my lectures for one of my classes (SWK-6521) as podcasts.  
• At first, I only made them available to students, but recently I made them available to on apple podcasts, Google podcasts, Spotify etc. 
• The response to these podcasts has been good, much better than I had expected it would be. 
• SWK-6521 is a very, very wide spectrum view of tons of different psychoanalytic theory... 
• Lots of breadth, but not much depth on any one of those things. By the end of it, people have a very small taste of all these different psychoanalytic theories/practices.

Lacan & Lacanian Psychoanalysis, yo! 

• This brings me to one of the other things I do: I'm a practicing Lacanian analyst. 
• Out of all the psychoanalytic theories out there, Lacan's theories are the ones that I've chosen to spend the most time learning and the ones I've chosen to orient my practice.

Back to your original question: What is InForm: Seminar?

I want to do in InForm: Seminar is combine a few things. 

• The Informal & Informative aspect of the InForm: Podcast... Sort of its playful "Let's see what happens when we talk about this..." tone. 
• The solo act aspect of my SWK-6521 podcast lectures... This will be just me talking. 
• But with an emphasis on Lacanian Psychoanalysis as opposed to the wide spectrum sort of thing I'm doing in the SWK0-6521 lectures. 

Now, let's talk details

•  I'm busy.  So, I don't know how often I'll be able to do these.
• Thus, there is not going to be a weekly or bi-weekly release schedule. I'll do them when I have both the desire and the time. 
• There will not be a standard length. Some will be short, 10-15 min. Others will be long... an hour, perhaps 90 min. 
• They will be broken up into seasons, and each season will focus on a theme and/or text. 

Wrap: 

• That's it for the first episode/session. 
• Thanks for taking the time to listen. 
• Till next time, please, make some glorious mistakes.