Community Events (non-Alliance)

Presenter: Margarita Lalayan

Presenter: Katie Wilson

Presenter: Collin McFadden
Discussant: Terry Hanson

In recent years there has been a growing demand for psychoanalytic perspectives on the underlying dynamics of political figures and social phenomena. Dr. Koritar’s compelling and timely paper exemplifies this trend. Rather than investigating the individual psyche, he explores the relationship between psyche and the culture of the populace (i.e., the polis), delving into the complex underlying dynamics of leaders' hypnotic influence and the creation of an alternate reality.

In contemporary psychoanalysis, it has become popular to accuse the clinical field of hating sex, hating pleasure, and being generally – both in its theory and in its techniques – hostile and averse to sex and sexuality. Although this isn’t a particularly new argument – French psychoanalysis has been accusing American psychoanalysis of this in one form or another for the past seventy-five years - the argument has taken on new momentum with the popularization of queer theory, and alongside recent attempts to radicalize psychoanalytic theory and practice. In this presentation, Dr.

Interpersonal traumatizations, differences between trauma due to maltreatment and abuse and trauma due to natural catastrophes, possible formation of personality disorders in the long term (due to complex PTSD) and reparation in the treatment, through “embodied witnessing”