January 3 – February 14, 2022 Mondays, 7:00 – 8:15 pm 6 classes / $150 Fee Location: This course will be held virtually on ZOOM Click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900 to register

NYPSI Extension Program: Psychoanalytic Themes in Six Hollywood Films II
This course will continue the psychoanalytic exploration of Hollywood films begun in the 2020-2021 year. Once again, we will examine six films in six different genres: wartime adventure, film noir, romantic thriller, melodrama, courtroom drama and “Hollywood” movie. This year’s collection includes several films from the 1950’s during the peak years of psychoanalytic interest among filmmakers. This year we will also link each film with a thematically similar film. We begin with the universally loved and much viewed “Casablanca” (1943). Another film, “Rome Open City” (1945) deals with the same antifascist theme from a radically different perspective. “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955) is, for me, the ultimate film noir. Surprisingly, it presents a critique of the male psychology in its “manifest content”. Other films such as “Gun Crazy” (1949), operate at the same level. “Imitation of Life” (1959) uses the practice of “passing” to address racism in the context of the 1950’s. We will compare it to the contemporary film, “Passing” (2020) available on Netflix. In the guise of an entertaining thriller, “Rear Window” (1954) presents a trenchant critique of the voyeurism that is part and parcel of the Continue reading Psychoanalytic Themes in Six Hollywood Films II with Thomas Wolman, M.D. Online with NYPSI

Sunday, January 9, 2022 – 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM FREUD, FANON, AND THE LANGUAGE OF POWER: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORY AND TECHNIQUE
PRESENTER: DANIEL JOSÉ GAZTAMBIDE, PSY.D.
The history of psychoanalytic technique has evolved from the intrapsychic focus on the individual, to the interpersonal focus on the person in the context of their relationships, to the further contextualizing of these in politics, culture, and identity. Despite these advances, it is notable that while technique has evolved to include both an intrapsychic and intersubjective focus (with different inflections across, for example, Contemporary Freudian, relational, and Lacanian perspectives), theoretical developments with respect to the social have not yet been integrated into clear, practical technical innovations, aside from a general call to "consider" or "reflect on" issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the analytic relationship.  This presentation will "return to Freud" and reposition some of the fundamentals of the psychoanalytic theory of the  unconscious, language, and subjectivity, re-read through the work of Martiniquan revolutionary psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. It will be shown that Continue reading FREUD, FANON, AND THE LANGUAGE OF POWER: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORY AND TECHNIQUE WITH DANIEL JOSÉ GAZTAMBIDE, PSY.D. at MITPP

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Supernatural and other circumventions of the natural process of conception have been an abundant wellspring for magical, mythological, and religious narratives. It was held that the widowed queen of an Egyptian pharaoh could pull his posthumous sperm into her womb to create a child. The Olympian god Zeus could procreate in all sorts of ways, including swooping down as a shower of gold into a young womb. His daughter Athena sprang full-born from his head; his son Dionysus from his thigh. And it was the wind of the Holy Ghost that inseminated a certain young virgin. Continue reading Designer Genes at the Helix Center