May 2018
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THEATRE: STAGING THE OTHER SCENE.
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THEATRE: STAGING THE OTHER SCENE. Sunday May 6, 2018, 3:30 pm. Antonio Quinet and Ana Vincentini in conversation with Ann Pellegrini. Moderated by Patricia Gherovici. Public discussion following the performance of HILDA & FREUD on Sunday May 6, 2018. ANTONIO QUINET is a psychoanalyst in Rio de Janeiro who made his debut as a playwright and director with Charcot´s Lesson (2004), followed by X, Y e S – Strindberg’s Intimate Theatre (2005), and Artorquato (2006), the latter based…
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Primal Screens: Reality/Television in the Age of Trumpism
What is the relationship among reality, performance, politics, social media, and television in contemporary America? What does psychoanalysis have to say about this question? Please join us for a day-long event in which scholars, psychoanalysts, and cultural critics examine the performativity of reality in the society of the screen. Speakers: Taylor Black, Chiara Bottici, Barbara Browning, Patricia Gherovici, Emma Lieber, Jamieson Webster, Val Vinokur Featuring episodes of: "The Apprentice," "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," "The Real Housewives of New York,"…
Find out more »Jean-Michel Rabaté – “Crystal gazing at the Wall”: Freud A.D.H.D.
Saturday April 21, 2018 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm 30 Charlton Street, Suite 1 New York, NY 10014 "Crystal gazing at the Wall": Freud A.D.H.D. Please join us for a seminar with Jean-Michel Rabaté, moderated by Kerry Moore, devoted to the productive interaction of Freud with his analysand, the American poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), a successful psychoanalysis and one of Freud’s latest cases. Jean Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, after having…
Find out more »December 2017
On Queer Theory, Penis Envy, and the Subject of Defiance: A Day with Mari Ruti
Join us for a day with internationally recognized critical theorist, Lacanian interpreter, and feminist thinker, Mari Ruti. Mari's paper "The Disenchanted: Queer Theory between Negativity and Flourishing" will provide the basis for us to think between theory and clinical practice. Ruti will explore the main debates in contemporary queer theory, focusing on questions of subjectivity, defiance, agency, and affect to which she offers an affirmative interpretation of Lacanian theory. We will be particularly interested in exploring resistance as an ethical…
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LACAN, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND COMEDY
Please join us to celebrate the recent publication of Patricia Gherovici and Manya Steinkoler’s second collaboration, Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy (Cambridge University Press, 2016). The evening will feature buffoonery by the editors, one-liners and witticisms by contributors, Simon Critchley, Dany Nobus, and Jamieson Webster, and a surprise appearance by Dr. Jacques Lacan. How to fight a situation which seems farcical? When reality reaches absurdity, the subversive power of laughter steps in. Laughter is never innocent, it happens to us,…
Find out more »March 2015
Stuart Schneiderman: The Last Psychoanalyst!
Does Psychoanalysis Have a Future ...Or, Is It All in the Past? From Stuart Schneiderman: “I want to address the question posed by my book, The Last Psychoanalyst, that when Lacan declared that psychoanalytic practice was a ‘swindle’ or scam (escroquerie) he was trying to save it. By trying to make it into an international cult he was trying to keep it alive as one front in the culture war against Anglo-American cultural hegemony. He believed that psychoanalysts do better…
Find out more »May 2013
Lewis Aron: THE OTHER PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE
Lewis Aron, Ph.D., ABPP is the Director of the New York University, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association; founding President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP); founding President of the Division of Psychologist-Psychoanalysts of the New York State Psychological Association (NYSPA). He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Sandor Ferenczi Center at the New School for Social Research, and…
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Anni Bergman: SCREENING AND DISCUSSION OF “THE POWER OF THE RELATIONSHIP”
Anni Bergman was born in Vienna and immigrated to the United States in 1939. She graduated with a degree in music from the University of California and eventually settled in New York City with her husband, writer and publisher Peter Bergman, with whom she had two sons. While in California she met the psychoanalyst Christine Olden, who became a close friend and important influence. In 1959 Dr. Bergman began to work with Margaret Mahler on the observational study of the…
Find out more »November 2012
Otto Kernberg: The Suicide of Psychoanalytic Institutes
Otto Kernberg, meets Das Unbehagen to discuss a shared discontent with psychoanalytic training. Kernberg will share his critique of the analytic training system along with his ideas of an alternate training system that would avoid the worst aspects of the institute model. According to Kernberg, institutes and their training systems combine aspects of two historical modes of knowledge transmission: 1) a guild or apprenticeship model and 2) a religious cult. Psychoanalytic institutes combine aspects of both ancient models. Key to…
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