The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
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
