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New Book: Whiteness at the Abyss A Lacanian Reading of ‘White Anxiety’ by Derek Hook
About this book ‘Whiteness’ is an omnipresent term within research on race and racism. This book differs from existing conceptualizations by adopting a psychoanalytic line of approach and by directing its attention to a particular socio-historical instantiation of whiteness—the investments, fantasies and fears apparent within (post) apartheid South African contexts. It foregrounds the notion of… Read more
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THE SOCIAL SYMPTOM IN PSYCHOANALYSIS: FROM DEMOCRACY TO FASCIST DISCOURSE.
Pedro Castilho presents a talk on the interplay between psychoanalysis, democracy, anomie and fascism in the current political landscape. Date: Thursday, February 6 · 7:30 – 9pm EST Location: 321 W 44th St suite 510321 West 44th Street #suite 510 New York, NY 10036 The interplay between psychoanalysis, democracy, anomie and fascism is, symptomatically, of… Read more
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING – Collective Wounds and the Symbolising Crowd: Reconsidering the Social Bond. Presenter: Raluca Soreanu, PhD.Wednesday, February 19, 2025: 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm.
Are crowds capable of mourning or working-through political traumas? What is the psychic work involved in public morning and how can make we make sense of new political symbols that emerge in ample scenes of protest? Drawing on the Brazilian Uprising of 2013 and its aftermath, I write about a semi-spontaneous mourning, a mourning that… Read more
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[Free Download] Holding the Frame/Playing the Game: Transference as Political Potentiality- William Mazzarella.
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February 7 – Online: The “Big Shot” Raises His Fee: Social Class in the Psychoanalytic Encounter
Stewart Crane, LCSW, Presenter About this event The role of social class in the analytic encounter has been given little attention in our psychoanalytic literature and training institutes. This dimension of the treatment relationship tends to remain invisible most of the time. However, when the analyst raises the fee, it can become a catalyst for… Read more
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