FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: The Language of the Third Reich and of the Bolsonaro Government witht Betty Fuks  Friday, October 23, 2020  6:30 PM – 8:30 PM To register, click here.

This presentation intends to show how the current Brazilian government has been using the language and aesthetics of the Third Reich in its statements to the nation and its institutional advertisements, in accord with its stance toward fascism. This development does not, however, seem to be exclusive to Brazil: the fascist state of mind has been spreading in other “democracies” across the planet.
Suggested readings: Freud: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (1921), S.E., vol. 18. Klemperer, Victor: The Language of the Third Continue reading The Language of the Third Reich and of the Bolsonaro Government with Betty Fuks Online with Après-Coup

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, Continue reading The Psychoanalysis of Murderous Violence with Yukari Yanagino at IPTAR-Q

Series: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Clinical Practice During Pandemic

 Pol-Pot Trauma Reaches Our Shores: Online Interviews During COVID-19

Thursday December 3, 2020

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT

A Live Program on Zoom

 

Gilbert Kliman, MD

Medical Director,

Children’s Psychological Health Center

Chairperson of the Board of Trustees,

Harlem Family Institute and Harlem Psychoanalytic Institute

Honorary Member, Contemporary Freudian Society

Overview  

A traumatized Cambodian mother and child were seen forensically by a senior psychoanalyst. The task was assisted by psychoanalytic self-awareness and countertransferential knowledge.  Mother, a Pol Pot survivor was raped in a chaotic refugee camp during her childhood.  Her daughter was, years later, sexually harassed in a negligent U.S. kindergarten.  Transgenerational influences were powerful sources of psychological damage for both mother and child.   Videorecordings of interviews will be shown during the seminar.  Epigenesis, moral injury and betrayal effects will be discussed as will the persisting attachment from prior in-person interviews in facilitating the online work.  The report and a deposition resulted in a generous financial settlement.

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