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James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now Online with NYPSI
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NYPSI’s 1044th Scientific Meeting:  James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now with panelists: Beverly Stoute, M.D. (moderator), Irene Cairo, M.D., David Goldenberg, M.D.,
Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D., Meredith Wong, M.D.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020  |  8:00 – 10:00 pm (Held Virtually on ZOOM) $30 – General Admission
$20 – Student Admission No charge for NYPSI members and students Register HERE,  visit
nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL REGISTRATION: Buy your ticket at nypsi.org One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for webinar which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM meeting link and password to “enter” the meeting.

The acclaimed documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck, is drawn from James Baldwin’s unfinished work about his murdered friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Peck Continue reading James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now Online with NYPSI

On Psychoanalytic Formation in Ireland: Questions and Reflection Online with Après-Coup
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WORKSHOP: On Psychoanalytic Formation in Ireland: Questions and Reflections  Barry O’Donnell, Donna Redmond, Eve Watson  Saturday, October 31, 2020  10:30 am – 2:00 pm EDT (U.S.) 14:30 – 18:00 GMT To register, click here.

Inherent in Jacques Lacan’s Founding Act of June 21, 1964 is the reality that the relationship between leader and group is a permanent problem. Within his innovation, Lacan highlighted a possible way to forge one’s own way rather than become a disciple who follows a master. This is the onerous and creative task faced by those who have the desire to pass the baton that Freud first wielded.
Barry O’Donnell: “An feidir an chúis Freud agus Lacan á dheileadh ón chúis an Phiarsaigh?” (Can the Cause of Freud and Lacan Be Turned out of the Cause of Pearse?): Ireland and the Transmission of Psychoanalysis  Donna Redmond: Squaring the Circle—The Impossibility of Continue reading On Psychoanalytic Formation in Ireland: Questions and Reflection Online with Après-Coup

Finding Ourselves in the Storms of Election 2020 at NCP Los Angeles
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Part 1 : Arriving at this Political Moment Saturday, October 24, 2020 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM (PST) Pre-registration is required Registration closes at 4:00 PM PST on October 23 3 CE/CME Credits  Registration by October 18: $50; after October 18: $60 Students, candidates, interns and residents: $30   Peter Wolson, PhD, and Thomas Brod, MD

The first three-hour workshop will offer a schematic psychoanalytic overview of the major issues in what many regard as the most important presidential election of their lifetime. In their presentations, Drs. Wolson and Brod will explore such seminal issues as the conflict between Republicans and Democrats, authoritarianism vs. democracy, presidential Continue reading Finding Ourselves in the Storms of Election 2020 at NCP Los Angeles

The Language of the Third Reich and of the Bolsonaro Government with Betty Fuks Online with Après-Coup
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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