IPTAR-Q PRESENTS: THE PSYCHOANALYSIS OF MURDEROUS VIOLENCE AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACE, GENDER AND  SEXUALITY PRESENTER: YUKARI YANAGINO, PHD MODERATOR: BRIAN KLOPPENBERG SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2020 ON ZOOM 2:00 PM — 4:00 PM  General: $20 includes Candidates: Free 2 CE Credits Offered  Register Here:

Dr. Yukari Yanagino will present excerpts from her new work, entitled “Psychoanalysis, Historical Injury, and the Language of Castration: The Murder of Transgender Women of Color.” Yanagino’s paper will provide a psychoanalytic framework to enter into a discussion of the intersectional nature of violence against trans women of color as well as other queer and racialized subjects.|
In her own words: Why do transgender women of color’s attempts to deconstruct cisgenderness evoke a murderous reaction? I use the word ‘‘infection’’ to describe the death of transgender women of color because the murderous rage that is involved is like a disease, developing from a psychical infection that refuses containment. Working from Freud’s theory of infantile sexuality, I examine his theory of the death instinct—specifically, the working of the compulsion to repeat. I demonstrate that for Freud the compulsion to repeat is connected to the fulfillment of wishes, and I use this theoretical frame to illustrate that for people of color the time when the experience of racial subjugation was not consciously registered is only possible in dreams. I then engage with Melanie Klein’s theory of projective identification and link it to Freud’s dual instinct theory in order to offer an effective way to articulate that the murderous impulse is a normal part of the human psyche. I believe these theoretical offerings from Freud and Klein can help to prevent the murder of transgender women of color.

Yukari Yanagino, PhD is a Faculty Member at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New York at New York University Medical School and an Associate Member, Faculty and Supervisor at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where she also co-chairs IPTAR-Q. She is a Clinical Supervisor at the Institute for Human Identity, conducting research to develop psychoanalytically therapeutic protocols that are relevant to the treatment of transgender and gender non-conforming patients. She is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Yanagino was a guest editor of the journal, The Undecidable Unconscious, Volume 5, 2018.

Brian Kloppenberg is a Fellow (Training Analyst, Supervisor, and Faculty Member) at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Psychology, and The Undecidable Unconscious. He is the co-chair of IPTAR-Q and chair of the Programs Committee.

Learning Objectives:
To understand how psychoanalytic theory can conceptualize violence at the intersection of race, gender and sexuality.

To understand how to conceptualize Freudian and Kleinian theories in relation to contemporary formations of identity.

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(2) CE credits will be granted to participants who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the entire program and have completed the on-line evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements.