January 2017
Crazy Like a Fox: Evil is Not a Psychiatric Illness – A talk by Steven Reisner at the New School!
Much of the discourse on why Donald Trump is not fit to be President draws on claims that he is suffering from severe mental illness and therefore cannot be entrusted with the most powerful and responsible job in the world. In this presentation, Steven Reisner argues that diagnosing Trump is part of the therapists’ wishful fantasy that evil can be ‘cured’ in the consulting room. He will argue, instead, for an analytic and political process (he sees the two as…
Find out more »New Barbarisms with David Bell
All cultures develop their own modes of self-explanation, but such explanations, somewhat like symptoms, inevitably conceal as much as they reveal. In this sense psychoanalysis may be well placed to enter into a critical relation with the forms of consciousness that characterize our age. At the current conjuncture we are witnessing an escalating descent into a kind of institutionalized barbarism which unleashes forms of group behavior which require a social and psychological understanding. The time seems right to return to the classic…
Find out more »The Late Lacan and Beyond: The Politics of the Analyst (Session IV)
The Late Lacan and Beyond: Advanced Psychoanalysis for Beginners Co-sponsored by Analytica and Das Unbehagen NPAP 40 W 13th NY (And By Virtual Attendance) In Lacan’s last years he extended his work in psychoanalysis and put the capstone on a life of innovative practice. By now his basic concepts have been the subject of innumerable “Lacan for Beginners” books and classes while his late seminars, texts, school and clinic have rarely been explicated in French let alone in English. This…
Find out more »December 2016
The Late Lacan and Beyond: Advanced Psychoanalysis for Beginners (Session III)
The Late Lacan and Beyond: Advanced Psychoanalysis for Beginners NPAP 40 W 13th NY (And By Virtual Attendance) In Lacan’s last years he extended his work in psychoanalysis and put the capstone on a life of innovative practice. By now his basic concepts have been the subject of innumerable “Lacan for Beginners” books and classes while his late seminars, texts, school and clinic have rarely been explicated in French let alone in English. This event will demonstrate the significance of…
Find out more »November 2016
Jeffrey Sacks: The Philosophical Anthropology of Paul Ricouer Towards an Evolving Psychoanalysis (Class 3)
This series of conversations will examine the core concepts of philosophical anthropology and explore their application towards an evolving contemporary psychoanalysis through clinical examples and selected readings of Paul Ricoeur. His interdisciplinary blending of literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis and the poetics of imagination offer enhanced opportunities of ethical gratitude, healing mutual recognition and liberation. First Conversation: From the semantics of desire, metaphor, and narrative to vulnerability as the new capability Second Conversation: From the interpersonal intersubjective linguistic field theory to…
Find out more »SIPP 2016: Any Body, Anybody – The Matter of the Unconscious
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Jeffrey Sacks: The Philosophical Anthropology of Paul Ricoeur Towards an Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Class 2)
This series of conversations will examine the core concepts of philosophical anthropology and explore their application towards an evolving contemporary psychoanalysis through clinical examples and selected readings of Paul Ricoeur. His interdisciplinary blending of literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis and the poetics of imagination offer enhanced opportunities of ethical gratitude, healing mutual recognition and liberation. First Conversation: From the semantics of desire, metaphor, and narrative to vulnerability as the new capability Second Conversation: From the interpersonal intersubjective linguistic field theory to…
Find out more »October 2016
“How To Live Together”: Acephalic Discontents IV
(session IV/ curated by WENDY’S SUBWAY/ texts: Roland Barthes, “How to Live Together”) Acephalic discontents is a series of text-based discussions on the question of community and group structure organized in collaboration with various writerly, artistic and intellectual groups. Sessions reflect on the possibilities and limits of alternative organization within the constraints of today’s capitalism while also functioning as nodes of intersection for various acephalic thinkers, groups and projects between New York City and Philadelphia. Each discussion session is relatively…
Find out more »Laurence Rickels: All You Vampires
The title "All You Vampires" summarizes the drift of the presentation by tampering with the title of Robert Heinlein’s time-travel story "All You Zombies" and placing the vampire in the seat of sole survivor (and mourner). To this end I attend to the origin story of the living dead, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. The contest that reopened at the start of the new millennium between identification with the undead and thrill-a-kill consumerism of the living dead also rereleased but…
Find out more »Jeffrey Sacks: The Philosophical Anthropology of Paul Ricoeur Towards an Evolving Contemporary Psychoanalysis (Class 1)
This series of conversations will examine the core concepts of philosophical anthropology and explore their application towards an evolving contemporary psychoanalysis through clinical examples and selected readings of Paul Ricoeur. His interdisciplinary blending of literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis and the poetics of imagination offer enhanced opportunities of ethical gratitude, healing mutual recognition and liberation. First Conversation: From the semantics of desire, metaphor, and narrative to vulnerability as the new capability Second Conversation: From the interpersonal intersubjective linguistic field theory to…
Find out more »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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