Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 1 with Adriana Passini online with Après-Coup
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SEMINAR: Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 1 with Adriana Passini Friday, October 9, 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.
Adriana Passini, LCSW, practices psychoanalysis in NYC, and is a member and faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the advisory board of the American Psychoanalytic Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.
General fee: $20 For students with ID: $10 With 2 CE Credits  Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers: $40.00
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POETRY MONDAY: October 5, 2020
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                                                                                         PHIL TIMPANE

Good morning, everyone!  It seems strange to say “good morning” when I’m writing this after dark, but everything seems strange in what Farhad Manjoo called “a present as nutty as ours” (NY Times, 9/24/20). But poetry, as always, will help us to survive.

Our poet today is an old friend to this column, as he was featured here in one of our earliest years.  Now here he is again, looking venerable and bardic, with new poems and details about his life, of the kind I always like to share with readers.

Phil Timpane works with his hands, his business mind and his ever-working philosophical mind.  By day he is a building contractor; the rest of his time, he says, he “designs and builds new poems.” This kind of day job is not unusual for serious artists in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.  I know two other contractors who are well-published poets, another who is an Equity actor and a third who runs a Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: October 5, 2020