Webinar for Psychoanalytic Practitioners Working in Community Settings
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PSYCHOANALYTIC COMMUNITY COLLABORATORY 5.0 March 1 – June 14, 2021 Webinar for Psychoanalytic Practitioners Working in Community Settings

The Psychoanalytic Community Collaboratory is a consultation group for clinicians who want to apply a relational, psychodynamic framework to working in community-based programs focused on clinical, educational, community development, and social justice goals.

In community settings, psychoanalytic clinicians function simultaneously as citizens, collaborators, and consultants. The work we do is often interdisciplinary, characterized by an approach to groups and communities in which personal and cultural histories, the unconscious, and the socio-political surround are always at play. Continue reading Webinar for Psychoanalytic Practitioners Working in Community Settings

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

Mysteries of massive holes forming in Siberian permafrost unlocked by scientist
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Click Here to Read: Mysteries of massive holes forming in Siberian permafrost unlocked by scientists  By Katie Hunt on the CNN website on February 17, 2021.
The walls of this immense crater look as though they could have been scooped out of ice cream, but for the protruding ends of plant roots. And at more than 85 meters (275 feet) tall in places, Batagaika’s cliff-faces keep growing while the crater below becomes deeper and wider. Batagaika Crater has formed as rising temperatures have thawed the permafrost in Siberia.  Image: NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.