The SPSI Art Salon Committee presents the next installment in our series “The Impact on the Psyche of Not Belonging: The Recognition and Non-Recognition of Women Artists”.
Our program will include short films by Kara Walker:
• Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road (2009)
• Lucy of Pulaski (2009)
More details to come.
"The Hardest Passage: A Psychoanalyst Accompanies her Patient into Dementia" is both the title of this presentation and Maxine Anderson’s forthcoming book that grew out of an encounter with one of her first analytic patients; a woman who recontacted her some 40 years following termination of the patient’s analysis, hoping for help to face the deepening impact of dementia.
"The Hardest Passage: A Psychoanalyst Accompanies her Patient into Dementia" is both the title of this presentation and Maxine Anderson’s forthcoming book that grew out of an encounter with one of her first analytic patients; a woman who recontacted her some 40 years following termination of the patient’s analysis, hoping for help to face the deepening impact of dementia.
In this seminar, Dr. Lemma will critically review how psychoanalysis has approached the question of transgender identities and the challenges that have been proposed to the classical psychoanalytic understanding. She will introduce some key ethical points that are important for therapists working in this area. Finally, she will share some of her own clinical work with this group of patients to illustrate some of the challenges and adaptations to technique.
Unrepresented and yet-to-be-suffered trauma and neglect announce themselves in the language of symptoms, absence and emergent enactments in the treatment field. This course will address the challenges when working with patients whose trauma does not avail itself to symbolization and mentalization. These patients often suffer disturbances in the area of self-other definition, continuity and regulation of self.
In this workshop, we will consider how discussions of race are avoided in interracial couples. The interracial couple’s dissociation from racial stratification leaves the couple ensconced in the paranoid-schizoid position, where internal and external pressures contribute to the couple enacting a monoracial identification aligned with white dominant norms. These racialized dynamics have an impact on mixed-race children.
Please join us at SPSI's new location in Eastlake for an evening of visual art, music, and poetry/prose by SPSI members, friends, and family. Food and drink will be provided.
The lecture presentation is based on Daniel Benveniste’s book, Libido, Culture, and Consciousness: Revisiting Freud’s Totem and Taboo. It leaves behind Freud’s psycho-Lamarckian assumption, and looks for analogous relations between libido development, psychopathology, prehistoric cultural evolution, myth, and ritual. Benveniste considers human social instincts in relation to primatology and Hominin evolution and finds their manifestations elaborated in the artifacts of prehistoric culture.
Many colleagues are familiar with the forms of anxiety associated with Klein’s ideas of the paranoid schizoid and depressive positions. In this presentation, Jeffrey Eaton looks at the work of several psychoanalysts who have described primordial forms of anxiety “below or before” the paranoid schizoid position. Eaton returns to the work of Seattle psychoanalyst Ivri Kumin who proposed the idea of ‘pre-object relations’. He links Kumin’s work with that of Anne Alvarez, Joshua Durban, Didier Houzel, and Suzanne Maiello.
Presenter: Eric Borgh