Psychoanalysis
at Nos Bobos
Psychoanalysis with Lacanian Orientations with Freud and Lacan.
Psychoanalysis is a singular subjective experience, grounded on each person’s speech, and exploring the causes of suffering and joy.
Nos Bobos is a cultural initiative of Psychoanalysis, based in Brussels, offering both in-person and online activities.
It is rooted in the theories of Freud and Lacan, following the Lacanian Orientation of Jacques-Alain Miller.
Clinical Psychoanalysis Sessions
Nos Bobos provides clinical psychoanalysis sessions, both in-person in Brussels and online, in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Psychoanalysis Reading Course
This course is an introduction to psychoanalysis through the reading and systematic study of texts from the theories of Freud and Lacan, following the Lacanian Orientation of Jacques-Alain Miller.
For the moment, only in Portuguese.
Psychoanalysis Reading Group
Groups dedicated to the study of the fundamental texts of Freud, Lacan, and Miller, following the Lacanian Orientation of Jacques-Alain Miller.
Clinical Psychoanalysis Sessions
In-person and online
Clinical Psychoanalytic Consultations
Nos Bobos offers clinical psychoanalytic consultations, in person in Brussels and online, in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.
If you are looking for a psychoanalyst to work on a personal question, you can contact us.
What is psychoanalysis?
And how does it operate?
Psychoanalysis is a singular subjective experience, a process that deals with what is proper and unique to each person.
In psychoanalysis, a person speaks to a psychoanalyst. The psychoanalyst listens without judging, without giving advice, and without applying any moral framework. In this way, we can say whatever comes to mind; we can talk about what worries us, what concerns us, what is intimate, and what makes us happy. We can recount facts from our lives, significant events that seem to have shaped or oriented our existence in an unknown way. We can say what makes sense and what does not.
In this way, psychoanalysis shows us something beyond what we know about ourselves; it reveals something that is unknown, unconscious. It leads us to perceive that there is always something extra or something missing in what we say. Psychoanalysis always shows that each person says more or less than they think they are saying – that we say something «between the lines».
Starting from each person’s singular speech, psychoanalysis questions what causes suffering and what causes joy. Through what is said, suffering becomes clearer, as does what gives rise to the desire of the one who speaks.
When suffering and desire begin to become clearer, the effects of psychoanalysis appear: suffering diminishes, and life becomes freer.
What is psychoanalysis for?
As Freud systematized it, psychoanalysis can have three aims:
Therapeutic
- Therapeutic: It treats a symptom. In this process, psychoanalysis can relieve anguish and anxiety, as well as address something physical or psychological that disrupts life (insomnia, depression, suicidal thoughts, social maladaptation, strange pains without apparent cause, nervous tics, etc.). It seeks to discover and reveal the psychic origin of the symptom and the disturbance, allowing the person to find a more satisfying way of living — a more pleasant, productive, and joyful way of being.
- Singular truth: It serves to work through a personal question, a doubt, an indecision, an uncertainty in life. Its function is to search for what animates the person: a singular truth that guides their life, a knowledge that supports life and helps it function better.
- Didactic analysis: This is the analysis that produces a psychoanalyst.
Psychoanalysis Reading Group
Reading and studying the texts of Freud, Lacan, and Miller.
Psychoanalysis Reading Group
Groups dedicated to the study of the fundamental texts of Freud, Lacan, and Miller, following the Lacanian Orientation of Jacques-Alain Miller.
They aim to offer a space for in‑depth study and reflection in psychoanalysis, notably with effects of training and subjectivation.
They create a space for debate based on the texts — and always with the texts.
The meetings take place through periodic Zoom sessions.
They are open to anyone interested in the subject.
Registration is open, and participation is intended to be free and engaged.
The groups and the texts
At the moment, there is no group in English, only in Portuguese.
However, we may be able to set up a group in English.
If you are interested, please contact us.
The Reading of Psychoanalysis
Spoken and Speaking Beings
Each individual of the human species is crossed by language and thus becomes a human being.
The subject (in psychoanalysis) is a spoken and speaking being. Psychoanalysis takes as its primary material the speech of this spoken and speaking being.
We can think that psychoanalysis is a kind of reading of what is said. However, it is no ordinary reading.
Reading in Psychoanalysis
Reading in psychoanalysis is not a reading that seeks to share meanings. Nor is it a reading constructed with meaning derived from common sense, where what is understood is almost independent and disconnected from the words that were spoken – the listener understands what they wish to understand.
Starting precisely from the words spoken: this is the key to psychoanalytic reading, a reading described as “to the letter,” a reading based on the signifiers that encrypt something.
The Goal of Reading Freud and Lacan
We often hear about what Freud and Lacan said. But what did they really say?
We want to know what they truly wrote, to read, interpret, and understand based on what is written. We aim to search for the words they used, we want to read the words they left behind through their speech or writing. We want to read their own words and understand the path they traveled to develop the concepts and ideas that sustain psychoanalytic practice.
This is the objective of the Reading Group: to read the words used by Freud and Lacan and, through this “moteriality” – the materiality of the word (mot) – to reflect on and decipher psychoanalytic concepts.
Previously Studied Texts
- 31/01/2025 – 12/12/2025
Freud. Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety. 1926. - 2025/07/15 – 2025/09/16
Freud. Instincts and Their Vicissitudes. 1915.
With the Associação Clínica Freudiana form Uberlândia (Brazil). - 2025/03 – 2025/04
Freud. Lines of Advance in Psycho-Analytic Therapy. 1918. - 2024/112024/11 – 2024/12
Marie-Hélène Brousse. A Contemporary Neologism: Parenthood. 2005. - 2024/09 – 2024/11
Freud. The Psychogenesis of a Case of Female Homosexuality. 1924. - 2024/08
Freud. Neurosis and Psychosis. 1924. - 2024/05 – 2024/07
Freud. The Ego and the Id. 1923. - 2024/03 – 2024/05
Lacan. The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real. 1953. - 2024/02 – interrompido
Miller. Marginalia on “Constructions in Analysis”. 1994. - 2023/12 – 2024/02
Freud. Constructions in Analysis. 1937. - 2023/11
Freud. Denial. 1925. - 2023/11
Freud. The Magic Block. 1925. - 2023/05 – 2023/08
Freud. Beyond the Pleasure Principle. 1923. - 2023/03 – 2023/05
Lacan. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function. 1949. - 2022/11 – 2023/03
Freud. Introduction to Narcissism. 1914. - 2022/05 – 2022/11
Freud. Drives and Their Fates. 1915. - 2021/12 – 2022/05
Freud. The Unconscious. 1915.
References
Related sites
- Antena do Campo Freudiano – ACF-Portugal (NLS-AMP)
- Facebook of the Antena do Campo Freudiano
- Instagram of the Antena do Campo Freudiano
- AMP/WAP – World Association fo Pscyhoanalysis
- NLS – New Lacanian School (AMP)
- ECF – École de la Cause Freudienne (AMP – França)
- ELP – Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis (AMP – Espanha)
Texts by Nos Bobos
- Ensino de Música atravessado pela Psicanálise
- A Manhã do Concerto
- Crianças que batem nos pais: me ensinas a amar?