Soti Griva

curriculum vitae

Soti Griva is a Lacanian psychoanalyst - author holding a postgraduate specialisation (with honours) in the Lacanian unconscious by the Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has participated for several years at the International School of Psychoanalysis of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (EPFCL) based in Paris. She has recently founded the Psychoanalytic Institute PSYCH(I)AMA to promote psychoanalysis among the broader public. As she herself says, "psychoanalysis is not just for the elite..."

She writes articles in psychoanalytic journals and conducts psychoanalytic seminars outside her place of residence as a guest in Athens, Volos (University of Thessaly) and Thessaloniki (Health Centres). Her research on Lacan goes beyond the boundaries of Greece and expands in France, especially in Paris. She maintains contact with very important mentors in the psychoanalytic field such as J. D. Nasio, to whom Lacan himself has entrusted his Seminar. Her critical look on Lacanian psychoanalysis is in line with the thought of Slavoj ZiZek, Marie Balmary and Jean Baudrillard. Furthermore, she is a translator of psychoanalytic texts from Spanish, Italian, French and English.

In Greece, she has published the books: "Crimes in psychotherapies, A-voros" (ed. Gavriilidis, 2013), her psychoanalytic fairytale "The princess and the dwarf of no" (ed. Cosmic Journeys, 2013), "Alice in paranoia land" (ed. Enastron, 2014), and her recent book "Lump in the throat" - Psychoanalysis and Crimes, Mystery Crime Literature (ed. Gavriilidis, 2015). In Paris, she has published the books: "Crimes en psychothérapies, A-voros" and "La princesse et le nain du non" from the publishing house L'Harmattan (2014), which are part of the Collection, Etudes Psychanalytiques. Process of their translation to other languages has already begun. Moreover, her book "Alice in paranoia land", with subtitle Psychoanalytic Seminars on the topology of love and perverse pleasure (ed. Enastron, 2014), was presented by the author herself in the 11th International Book Fair of Thessaloniki in May 2014, with great success. In a few months her new book is to be issued, entitled "Red Shoes, Statue-mushroom: the secret error of Lacan and Freud" (ed. Enastron, 2016).

Soti Griva has many years of clinical experience as adult and child psychoanalyst, combining it with didactic analysis in seminars delivered weekly in PSYCH(I)AMA Psychoanalytic Institute. Her seminars complement what is missing from the clinical education nowadays; moreover, her teaching competency as a former educator renders her psychoanalytic seminars vivid and pleasant to attend. Additionally, Soti Griva has invented "Choroanalysis" for the first time. It is based on her years of knowledge as a dance teacher-choreographer on traditional forms of dance and modern improvisations. It combines the unconscious body image with kinesiological analysis and with the look of the Other. One of the seminars each year concerns the teaching of "Choroanalysis" at dance sections. All her seminars promote dialogue, dialectic and critical thinking, broadening the horizons of psychoanalysis.