Psychoanalysis130

10/01/2026

Finding the unconscious motivations behind our repetitions and life patterns is the work of psychoanalysis.

06/01/2026

As opposed to persuading troublesome people to be more sensible, we’re invited to consider the alternative, of allowing semi-sensible people to become more unhinged. This would be necessary in the case of obsessional patients, who might otherwise remain stuck in a state of battened-down psychic rigidity. Far from portraying hysterics as people who foolishly manufacture symptoms in a doomed attempt to buck the system, they are here seen as people who refuse easy answers, resisting commonplace idiocies put forward in the form of accepted laws and norms. They use their dissatisfactions and discomforts as a means to interrogate the Other, to make it say something back, to attempt to unsettle it. In this sense the hysteric can be seen as a seeker after truth. It may seem a counter-intuitive leap from the idea of the Victorian malingerer, but the two could be said to be in direct relation. By virtue of their very unhappiness, hysterics have always found ways to attack the status quo. “Illness” offers a form of resistance.

- Anouchka Grose, Hysteria Today

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04/01/2026

Meet our team!

Introducing Ezra Keane

Ezra has been training in psychoanalysis with the Centre for Lacanian Analysis for 4 years and practicing as an Analyst-in-Training since 2021. Ezra’s interest in psychoanalysis began in 2009 while he was studying at Victoria University. Ezra has a BA and a GradDip Journalism. Ezra is available to work with people looking to speak with someone about their suffering, about the situations they find themselves in again and again. Ezra’s practice is supervised by an analyst of the Centre for Lacanian Analysis.

Analyst-in-Training with the CLA
ezra@psychoanalysis130.co.nz

31/12/2025

Our team welcome local enquiries and for those located outside of Auckland, work remotely online. Email us at admin@psychoanalysis130.co.nz to arrange a free consultation, where we are happy to talk through any questions you may have.

28/12/2025

We are open throughout the holiday period. DM or email admin@psychoanalysis130.co.nz to arrange a free consultation.

27/12/2025

Meet Our Team:

Introducing Ruby Read

​Ruby has been practicing as a Psychoanalyst-in-Training since 2021. She is trained in Clinical Psychoanalysis through the Centre for Lacanian Analysis Aotearoa, and has also undertaken an Infant Observation with the New Zealand Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Ruby also holds an MFA from the University of Auckland. Her interest in psychoanalysis began here, at the intersection between art and the unconscious. Ruby offers a reduced fee for those under financial strain. She believes psychoanalysis can alter the way we live, not by offering answers, but by opening a pathway to new possibilities.

Psychoanalyst-in-Training
MFA, Clinical Training in Psychoanalysis
Clinical Member of the CLA
ruby@psychoanalysis130.co.nz

22/12/2025

“Isn’t there a sad truth, as our language (la langue) suggests? Truth is not sad; it is horrible, inhuman, and horror does not depress us; instead, it awakens us.”

- Colette Soler. What Lacan Said About Women. 2003

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20/12/2025

“Isn’t there a sad truth, as our language (la langue) suggests? Truth is not sad; it is horrible, inhuman, and horror does not depress us; instead, it awakens us.”

- Colette Soler, What Lacan Said About Women.

Image by Matilda Rahiman

19/12/2025

Psychoanalysis is a process of self-understanding. Through regular sessions, attention is given through speech to relationships and recurring difficulties. The aim is not self improvement, but to be given the knowledge to choose how to live.

18/12/2025

Meet our team!

Jenny Woods

Jenny is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in private practice in Auckland. She has a long held an interest in the field of psychoanalysis, both psychoanalytic theory and clinical application. She is registered with the Psychotherapists Board of Aotearoa New Zealand and is a member of the School of Psychoanalysis of the International Forums of the Lacanian Field. Jenny sits on the Training Committee of the CLA and currently teaches clinical workshops in the CLA training program.

Lacanian Psychoanalyst
BA, PostGradCertArts, Masters of Psychotherapy
Clinical Member of CLA
Registered with PBANZ
Email: jenny@jennywoods.co.nz
www.jennywoods.co.nz

10/10/2025

08/10/2025

Send us a message to enquire about whether psychoanalysis may be right for you.

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