An Evening with Elizabeth Danto at NYPSI

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to An Evening with Elizabeth Danto Monday, February 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street | New York City 

General Admission: $10 All proceeds support the A.A. Brill LibraryRegister HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Elizabeth Danto, who will discuss the book Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School’ (Routledge, 2018) as well as screen a short film Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’. The book and the film were jointly produced by Elizabeth Ann Danto and Alexandra Steiner-Strauss. Continue reading An Evening with Elizabeth Danto at NYPSI

Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity

Click Here to Read:  Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity: Critics argue new psychology guidance pathologizes being male by Beth Mole on the ars techina website on January 15, 2019.

Navy men cheering for their soccer team, Brisbane, March 1945. Royal Navy men barracking for their fleet in the soccer game between Royal Navy and Brisbane at the Exhibition Ground.  Sunday Truth, 03 March 1945.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents: SEMINAR
On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli  
Friday, January 25, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, Room 408, New York, NY

Returning to Freud and Lacan, this seminar will reflect on the function that knowledge and belief play in the subject’s relation to the world. Denial, disavowal, foreclusion—and their subjective and collective implications—will be explored, as well as the differences between unconscious and conscious knowledge, between savoir, connaissance and savoir faire.

Readings for January 25th, 2019: S. Freud,  Neurosis and Psychosis, 1923; The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis (1924); J. Lacan, Continue reading On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli at Après-Coup