My name is Shanna Carlson de la Torre and I offer Lacanian analysis as a candidate in training.
In listening, I tune in to what in each subject is seeking a way to express itself.
In intervening, I aim to support the subject in the process of making a space in the world for that which did not exist before.
The one rule of analysis is free association: saying anything and everything that comes to mind.
With the aid of your dreams, we will enter into the heart of what is not working in your life, exploring, among other things, what it is you want, and what is out of control--not in order to "cure" or get rid of it, but to free what's acting in it.
We will work with your speech, listening for the logics at the heart of your suffering, and we will witness the solutions you create and the changes you make in accompaniment with your discoveries.
I have an academic background in literature, critical theory, and gender and sexuality studies. My experience teaching courses in French and world literature and queer, feminist, and transgender theory also informs the ways in which I listen and support what is creative--and what is writing and written--in the analysands with whom I work.