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Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics Fatherlands in mothers' hands By Eszter Salgó – 2014
Psychoanalytic Reflections on Politics: Fatherlands in mothers’ hands is a playful exploration of how people’s desires, fantasies, and emotions shape political events and social phenomena. It highlights the mythical sources of today’s political projects, the power of political imagination, and the function of symbolism in political thought. Eszter Salgó argues that the driving force for… Read more
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FLESHING OUT THE DIFFERENCE: A BLACK FEMINIST PSYCHOANALYTICS MICHELLE STEPHENS, PHD
FRIDAY, MAY 5th, 2023 FLESHING OUT THE DIFFERENCE:A BLACK FEMINIST PSYCHOANALYTICS MICHELLE STEPHENS, PHD Co-sponsored by the Sexuality and Gender Initiative At the end of the 1980s, black feminist legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw wrestled with the problem of a female blackness lived as an invisible intersectionality. In her account, “mutually exclusive categories of experience… Read more
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Psycho-social Explorations of Trauma, Exclusion and Violence Un-housed Minds and Inhospitable Environments By Christopher Scanlon, John Adlam
Book Description The central theme of this book is the operation of intersecting discourses of power, privilege and positioning as they are revealed in fraught encounters between in-groups and out-groups in our deeply fractured world. The authors offer a unique perspective on inter-group dynamics and structural violence at local, societal, cultural and global levels,… Read more
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ICP+P Roundtable Series: Psychoanalysis Begins with Fanon ~ Feb 11, 2023
Saturday, February 11th, 2023 3:00 pm-5:00 pm (US Eastern/New York Time)Virtual Zoom Event No CEs will be offered REGISTER HERE This talk will discuss how “beginning with Fanon” can be an entry point to disrupting settler colonial violence in the clinic, coercive ideological practices of our field, and, most importantly, will discuss how we might… Read more
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HATE UP TO MY COUCH: PSYCHOANALYSIS, COMMUNITY, POVERTY AND THE ROLE OF HATRED – Patricia Gherovici
This article is based on the author’s experience working as a psychoanalyst in Philadelphia’s barrio in the 1990s, which led her to meditate on the psychology of racism, segregation, and other forms of intolerance of difference and otherness. The author argues that no analyst can be immune to the cultural context in which they work… Read more
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