Click Here to Read: Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter By Natasha Kurchanova on the Brooklyn Rail website.
Maman by Louise Bourgeois. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Author: Tamar Schwartz
AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Online CFS
AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Friday, October 29, 2021 12:30-2:30pm Online via Zoom
It was not for a long time that I learned to appreciate the importance of phantasies and unconscious thought about life in the womb. They contain an explanation of the remarkable dread that many people have of being buried alive; and they also afford the deepest unconscious basis for the belief in survival after death, which merely represents a projection into the future of this uncanny life before birth. Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” -Freud (1900-1901, S.E. Vol.5, p. 400)
Following our last presentation on claustrophobia, we will now turn to its counterpart, agoraphobia, shifting the valence from the fear of being trapped inside with no way out, to the fear of going outside, and potentially losing not only one’s way, but also one’s mind. Agoraphobic fears point to the Continue reading AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Online CFS
Angry Outbursts and Erotic Insinuation: What Freud Was Really Like
Click Here to Read and Listen To: Angry Outbursts and Erotic Insinuation: What Freud Was Really Like: The father of psychoanalysis insisted that his students maintain neutrality vis-a-vis their own patients, but he himself tended to be impulsive and often crossed the line with his analysands by Ofer Aderet on the Ha’aretz website on August 5, 2021.
Psychoanalysis and the Language of War: essaim46
CONFERENCE
Psychoanalysis and the Language of War essaim 46 A Franco-American Presentation via Zoom Saturday, September 25, 2021
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada) To register, click here.
The word “war” carries a powerful charge in several sorts of war and in several ways of making war: position war, economic war, atomic war, cold war, spreading war, war against the pandemic… Psychoanalysts and psychoanalysis are also traversed by this signifier. What are the individual consequences that wars have had for analysts in their practice? What reflections and writings associating psychoanalysis and war have issued from this?
essaim is a French psychoanalytic journal. This encounter is devoted to the presentation and the discussion of Issue 46. (For a summary of Issue 46 in English, click here). Continue reading Psychoanalysis and the Language of War: essaim46
