Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 2: Adriana Passini Friday, November 6, 2020  6:30 PM – 8:30 PM To register, click here.  Returning to Freud’s considerations on repetition in the analytic experience as a form of past behavior that emerges in the present, this seminar will study repetition in its dual aspect, both as an insistence of the signifying chain and as an encounter with an object missed by definition.

Suggested readings: Freud: “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” (1914); Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920). Lacan: Seminars XI, 1964, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, classes 4, 5, 10; XVII, 1969-70, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, class 5. Continue reading Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 2—Adriana Passini Online with Après-Coup

Interested in deepening your clinical practice and exploring the relevance of psychoanalysis in our contemporary world? Please join us for our first virtual open house of this academic year. Candidate Dr. Alla Sheynkin will use material from her psychoanalytic work to explore how psychoanalytic training and theory helps her better address the anxiety of the moment. Senior training analyst, Dr. Ronda Shaw, will discuss her work. Continue reading From the Chair to the Couch Virtual Open House at NYPSI

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

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