June 2015
Angelo Villa: Hystericization and Psychoanalytic Belonging
Angelo Villa, who came last year to present his work on "Psychoanalysis and the Hadicapped," wanted to return to tell us about how he thinks about psychoanalytic groups. In particular, we were interested in his idea that the group needed to be kept 'hysterical' in order that it not close down or fall into malaise. His work with the difficulties of treating severe mental illness in an experimental hospital setting, and handling the threat of burn-out and desire to sterilize,…
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Scott Von: THE PSYCHOSOMATIC SYMPTOM: BETWEEN PSYCHOANALYSIS AND MEDICINE
Dr Scott Von is a psychoanalyst and physician and Director of the New Clinic for Integral Medicine and Psychiatry in New York. He has taught as a professor at NYU, CUNY, Pacific College, and ACTCM Medical School, and is a member of Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. He is also a poet and artist currently represented by the Cabinet Gallery in London where he has produced the four volume multimodal work Autopoesis. He is the author of the forthcoming Schizoanalysis: Chaos &…
Find out more »On Violence: Civilization and its Blisscontents
On Violence: Civilization and its Blisscontents Violence today seems not to address only our physical bodies and sense of safety: Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, ISIS, but also our positions as subjects: the medicalized body, the surgically aesthetically improved body, civic subjectivity reduced to consumption, mental health reduced to pharmacology. Timothy McVeigh said, “the government is increasingly hostile,” and blowing up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was what he called “the just response.” This conference asks questions about violence and…
Find out more »April 2015
Gerard Pommier: WHAT DID FEMINISM AND GENDER STUDIES BRING TO PSYCHOANALYSIS?
Gerard Pommier is Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist, Professor in University Paris VII, Editor of La Clinique Lacanienne, co-foundator of European Foundation for Psychoanalysis, and member of Espace Analytique. Last book published : Le nom propre (Editions Flammarion,2013)
Find out more »Sergio Benvenuto: Perversions are not Paraphilias
The psychoanalytic and psychiatric (DMS) diagnostics on perversion nearly coincide, even if psychiatry prefers to use the euphemism “paraphilia.” But do analysts and psychiatrists both know exactly what they are talking about? And in our times, what sense does it have to say that a subject is “perverse?” Sergio Benvenuto, the author of several books and articles on this subject, proposes a description of perverse subjectivity as an exquisitely ethical puzzle. What we (analysts and psychiatrists) consider perverse today is…
Find out more »March 2015
Guy Dana: ON PSYCHOSIS
Guy Dana is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist practicing in Paris. He directs the psychiatric services of the Hospital of Longjumeau. A member and a former president of the Cercle Freudien and a co-founder of Convergencia, he is the author of many articles on psychoanalysis and psychiatry and of the book Quelle politique pour la folie? Le suspense de Freud (2010).
Find out more »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 »February 2015
Elissa Marder: KNOCK KNOCK: FEMININITY, FIXATION, PHOTOGRAPHY
Professor Elissa Marder (Emory University) – Dream and the Guillotine: Femininity, Photography and Other Scenes of Fixation What is the relation between the singular unreality of the world of a dream and the guillotine, that exemplary enlightenment machine that transformed the legal administration of capital punishment into a public spectacle of the moment of death? I read these two seemingly opposed and unconnected figures through each other in order to explore how Freud’s descriptions of the formal qualities of the…
Find out more »Adele Tutter: THE MIRROR OF THE SLEEPING WATER – POUSSIN’S NARCISSUS
Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D. was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania. A practicing psychoanalyst, author, and art critic, her interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on the relationships between loss and creativity and between art and the artist in such subjects as Raymond Carver, Leos Janacek, Philip Johnson, Ovid, Beatrix Potter, Nicholas Poussin, Josef Sudek, and Francesca Woodman. She is the recipient of the American Psychoanalytic Association Karl Menninger and CORST prizes, among others. She is author…
Find out more »January 2015
Without History: EXPERIMENTS WITH CLINICAL CASE PRESENTATIONS
Unbehagen Case Presentation Event No. 1: “Without History” Saturday, January 10, 2015 Three analysts—Muriel Dimen, Patricia Gherovici, and David Lichtenstein—will present the same case based on a set of process notes from three analytic sessions. This event will explore aspects of the relationship between the patient, the individual clinician, and theory that are usually hidden by the conventional structure of the case presentation form. Other themes will include the effects of group dynamics on the case presentation experience and the…
Find out more »FREUD OUT LOUD: Civilization and its Discontents
A marathon reading of Civilization and its Discontents at Judson Church to bring in the New Year. Freud Gets Marathon Reading Treatment By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER, New York Times After the Holidays, Ponder Man’s Inhumanity to Man By: Daniel Maurer Bedford + Bowery, New York Magazine Marathon reading of Sigmund Freud’s ‘Civilization and its Discontents’ will shed light on human violence Judson Memorial Church and New Books in Psychoanalysis presents a staging of a seminal work on mankind's urge to destroy. BY…
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