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On Voluntary Servitude with Paola Mieli online with Après-Coup
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Kazimir Malevich, Female Torso, 1928-9

SEMINAR: On Voluntary Servitude   Paola Mieli   Saturday, February 27th, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
In times like these, as new forms of totalitarianism are taking over everywhere, it’s necessary to reflect on humans’ inherent propensity to take joy in their own servitude. Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s articulations of the subject of language and the social link, and that subject’s passion for ignorance, the seminar will explore the nature of the drive, masochism, and the ways the superego dictates the law one abides by. Psychoanalytic ethics can open a breach out of subjective servitude.
Suggested readings for Febrary 27: Etienne de la Boétie (1530-1563), The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude; S. Freud, On Narcissism: An Introduction (1914); S. Freud, Group Psychology and Analysis of the Ego (1921); S. Freud, “The Libido Theory” in Two Encyclopaedia Articles (1922). Continue reading On Voluntary Servitude with Paola Mieli online with Après-Coup

Populism online with the Helix Center
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DUE TO COVID-19 THIS ROUNDTABLE WILL BE VIRTUAL WEBINAR STARTS 12:00PM EST ON 2/20 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR SPOT IN ZOOM AUDIENCE (LIMITED SPOTS) OR CLICK HERE FOR STREAM (UNLIMITED ACCESS)

Populism Saturday 12:00 PM EST 20 February 2021

“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” – James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 10

Populism refers to the political mobilization of “the people” against a perceived elite caste of professional politicians. And whereas a corps of elected representatives was Madison’s and Hamilton’s buffer against the tyranny of factions, from time to time the political class may come to be viewed as insufficiently attentive to the needs of their constituents and then become the target and nidus that creates a populist movement.
What causes such mass movements and are they usually kept in check by the designs laid out in the Federalist Papers? What sorts of perceived failures on the part to the ruling class may provoke such movements, and when do these factors lead to right- versus left-wing populism? When do such movements form around notions of nationalism, classism, religion, xenophobia, or domestic oppression? Do anomie, alienation, or social humiliation play a role? What has been the effect of social media in catalyzing populist movements around the Continue reading Populism online with the Helix Center

Attachment, trauma and the body: Diverse applications of the Mirror Interview with Miriam Steele at IPTAR
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CAP Speaker Series at IPTAR Attachment, trauma and the body: Diverse applications of the Mirror Interview

Dr. Miriam Steele will present a central area of psychodynamically informed research at the New School’s Center for Attachment Research: Use of the ‘Mirror Interview’ (Kernberg, Normadin, & Buh-Nielsen, 2006). This unique empirical assessment of aspects of body  representations including body esteem, levels of coherence and reflective functioning, verbal and non-verbal expressions of affect has been used to explore intergenerational transmission of body representations from mothers to daughters and for adolescents with  personality disorders. Dr. Steele will introduce the Mirror Interview and describe the clinical implications of charting the intersection between body and attachment representations. Presenter: Miriam Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co- directs (with Dr. Howard Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. They are the editors of The Handbook of Attachment-Based Interventions. She is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst. Discussant: Francesca Schwartz, PhD, is Associate Director, at CAP.

To reserve Zoom spot, RSVP (by February 28th 3pm) segoodman@optonline.net

IPTAR PRESENTS RANJANA KHANNA, PHD TRANSLATIONS, GESCHLECHT: ON SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND THE WORLDING OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
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IPTAR PRESENTS RANJANA KHANNA, PHD TRANSLATIONS, GESCHLECHT: ON SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND THE WORLDING OF PSYCHOANALYSIS DISCUSSANT: SAM SEMPER, PHD CLINICAL PRESENTER: AZEEN KHAN, PHD MODERATOR: ANNA FISHZON, PHD
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2021 Continue reading IPTAR PRESENTS RANJANA KHANNA, PHD TRANSLATIONS, GESCHLECHT: ON SEXUAL DIFFERENCE, POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT AND THE WORLDING OF PSYCHOANALYSIS

Populism Roundtable online with the Helix Center
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DUE TO COVID-19 THIS ROUNDTABLE WILL BE VIRTUAL WEBINAR STARTS 12:00PM EST ON 2/20 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR SPOT IN ZOOM AUDIENCE (LIMITED SPOTS) OR CLICK HERE FOR STREAM (UNLIMITED ACCESS)

Populism: Saturday 12:00 PM EST 20 February 2021
“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
– James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 10

Populism refers to the political mobilization of “the people” against a perceived elite caste of professional politicians. And whereas a corps of elected representatives was Madison’s and Hamilton’s buffer against the tyranny of factions, from time to time the political class may come to be viewed as insufficiently attentive to the needs of their constituents and then become the target and nidus that creates a populist Continue reading Populism Roundtable online with the Helix Center

The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real Body with Erik Porge online with Après-Coup
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Pablo Picasso, Femme couchée lisant (Reclining Woman Reading), 1960
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WORKSHOP  The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real Body Erik Porge   Saturday, February 20, 2021 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM (EST)
2020 has been a moment of truth for analysts, too. The pandemic and State health regulations related to it had an impact on the practice of psychoanalysis, unveiling confusions and misunderstandings on the part of the analysts themselves. Psychoanalysis is based on the subjective presence in the treatment, where the relation between speech and body weaves together life, death, sexuality, i.e. the drives and their vicissitudes. Presence allows for the psychoanalytic act to take place and for the treatment to unfold. The issues of “cure” in analysis Continue reading The Imaginary, Symbolic, and Real Body with Erik Porge online with Après-Coup