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INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Misogyny In Psyche and Society. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2024. Hybrid Event.
Introduction and Practice Gap/Need: The 48th MPS Annual Symposium brings together two distinguished scholars and clinicians who will invite all participants to consider the possibility of internalized misogyny within all of us, patients and clinicians alike. Misogyny has been rarely addressed in the psychoanalytic literature, and clinical attention to internalized misogyny has been scant. The… Read more
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Gilman, S.L. (1993) Freud, Race and Gender. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
A Jew in a violently anti-Semitic world, Sigmund Freud was forced to cope with racism even in the “serious” medical literature of the fin de siècle, which described Jews as inherently pathological and sexually degenerate. In this provocative book, Sander L. Gilman argues that Freud’s internalizing of these images of racial difference shaped the questions of psychoanalysis.… Read more
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Jouissance and discontent: A meeting of psychoanalysis, race and American slavery
Abstract This article reads American slavery as an early manifestation of the instinctive drive toward pleasure and aggression that Freud recognizes in subjects after the First World War. It ties slavery to production of race as an abiding apparatus of jouissance, or a tool for accessing denied psychic pleasure. Where Freud links denial of pleasure to… Read more
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A Year of Genocide: Confronting Global Inaction
A Red Clinic, Greene Clinic, and Psychosocial Foundation collaboration Saturday, October 26 · 12 – 2pm EDT online Location Online Refund Policy Refunds up to 2 days before event Eventbrite’s fee is nonrefundable. About this event A Year of Genocide: Confronting Global Inaction The Red Clinic, the Greene Clinic, and the Psychosocial Foundation present this collaborative online… Read more
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Videoconference: Civilization and the Discontented (event recorded on August 8th, 2020).
The conference featured a presentation by Christopher Bollas of his latest work, “Civilization and the Discontented”, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with Christopher Bollas joined by Community West Co-founder and Executive and Clinical Director, John Grienenberger, PhD and Community West Co-founder and Director of Group Services, Sacha Bollas, PsyD. Bollas contends that we… Read more
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The Allure of Fascistic States of Mind: The Search for Purification,Salvation, and Manic Elation. Saturday, September 28, 2024 10 am to 1:30 pm- Hybrid
This workshop will offer psychoanalytic perspectives on the allure of fascistic states of mind leading to widespread degradation of faith in liberal democracies. The speakers, who have been working as a study group, will highlight the unconscious dynamics both in individuals and the collective leading to large group regression. The latter destructive, populist-inspired autocratic movements… Read more
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Psychoanalysis and Social Justice 