An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman at NYPSI
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WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick Wed, February 12, 2020, 8:15 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $20 – General Admission $15 – Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members/students Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

Mrs. Brenman Pick, a leading Contemporary Kleinian Analyst from London will present her paper: “The Faces of Trauma: Between the Personal and the Social – The ‘Pleasure’ of Passing on the Bad Treatment.” There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience. Continue reading An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman at NYPSI

The Poles Who Tried to Save My Father
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Click Here to Read: The Poles Who Tried to Save My Father: The unknown story of the Bernese Group, a collective of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland who forged passports to try and help Jews escape the horrors of the Holocaust By Menachem Z. Rosensaft on the Tablet Website on January 16, 2020.
The fake Paraguay passport of the Bernese Group.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

On Transference with Adriana Passini at Apres-Coup
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SEMINAR: On Transference with Adriana Passini   The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

This seminar will focus on the particular theoretical and clinical innovations implied by Lacan’s formulation of transference as the enactment of the sexual reality of the unconscious. Returning to Freud, we will accompany Lacan in his articulations of the unconscious and repetition, taking transference beyond its apprehension as a mode of operation or a technique
The next meeting will take place from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm on January 24, 2020.
For more information, please contact Adriana Passini at (212) 505-3588 or via email at adrianapassini@aol.com.
Suggested readings: Freud: “The Dynamics of Transference” (1912); Continue reading On Transference with Adriana Passini at Apres-Coup

Freud’s Architecture of Hysteria at IPTAR
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FREUD’S ARCHITECTURE OF HYSTERIA:  THEN AND NOWTHE PATHWAY TO FEMININE IDENTITY PRESENTERS: Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW, Maria Teresa Flores, M.D. ,   Masha Mimran, Ph.D.
REGISTER  https://iptar.org/event/2-7-fnp-freuds-architecture-of-hysteria-then-and-nowthe-pathway-to-feminine-identity/
Friday Night Papers:  February 7 6-8pm: IPTAR, Conference Room
Freud’s hysteria and psychic architecture: démodé or still relevant today?  Then and now, hysterical features and its diagnosis have shifted, from the unearthing of primal Oedipal conflict to include contemporary Continue reading Freud’s Architecture of Hysteria at IPTAR