May 2017
Book Release Party for Fenris Wolf 9: Collected Papers from Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult Conference, London 2016
On Freud's birthday - Saturday, May 6 - we will be having a release party for the Fenris Wolf 9, a collection of papers from the Psychoanalysis, Art & the Occult conference held in London, May 2016. The reception will be held from 6-8PM at SoHo Psychoanalytic - 30 Charlton Street, Suite 1, New York, NY 10014. This volume includes papers by Unbehageners Steven Reisner, Claire-Madeline Culkin, Eve Watson, Olga Cox Cameron, Ray O-Neill, Ingo Lambrecht, Katy Bohinc, and more... full…
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LACAN ON LAUGHTER — THE NEW LOL
Please join us on March 3, 2017, 7:00 to 9:00 pm 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. Where? Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY. When? March 3, 2017, 7:00 to 9:00 pm. LACAN ON LAUGHTER - THE…
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October 2016
Sergio Benvenuto: What are Perversions? Sexuality, Ethics, and Psychoanalysis
The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research hosts SERGIO BENVENUTO in conversation with Das Unbehagen and The Candidate Journal on the topic of his new book: What Are Perversions? Sexuality, Ethics, and Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2016) Dr. Benvenuto will be joined by panelists from IPTAR, The Candidate Journal and Das Unbehagen: Drs. Aleksandra Wagner, Sam Semper, Emma Lieber, and Anna Fishzon TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2016 8:00-10:00pm Arrive early and join us for a wine and cheese reception at 7:30pm IPTAR Conference Room, 1651 Third Avenue,…
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A Panel for the Launch of Barry Yourgrau’s “Mess” with Nuar Alsadir and Jamieson Webster
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Barry Yourgrau’s Mess: One Man’s Struggle to Clean Up His House and His Act (W.W. Norton, 2015) with a panel discussion featuring the author and psychoanalysts Nuar Alsadir and Jamieson Webster. Things collected, perfectly packed away, overly organized, preserved in plastic, but also broken, stuffed into drawers, or accumulated into a confusion of piles that betray the objects’ proximity to detritus—what better spectacle of the object is there than in the many varieties…
Find out more »January 2012
Das Unbehagen Opening Letter
The original ‘Unbehagen’ that led us to call this meeting stemmed from our experience of training at The New York Psychoanalytic, and getting involved in the politics of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the International Psychoanalytic Association. These experiences produced a schism between our will to progress through the training to become credentialed psychoanalysts and the pleasure of psychoanalysis, the latter diminishing in the face of the training experience. As our discontent increased, we began speaking to many people from…
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