Psychoanalysis in extension:
Refiguring intervention beyond the clinic
In-person event co-sponsored by
the group for independent formation & the greene clinic
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Saturday, October 14 (10am-6pm + cocktail hour) &
Sunday, October 15, (9am-1:30pm)
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Balance Arts Center
151 West 30th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY
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Organized by J. Royal, E. Lieber, L. Dent & S. Boyles
Overview
This event will explore the position and potential functions of the psychoanalyst working in contexts outside of the consulting room. It will comprise five 'segments' over two days, broadly structured as roundtable discussions on the following topics:
Working with psychosis in community settings
M. Brown, B. Fimiani, O. Ophir, M. Oyer & L. Dent (moderator/plus-one)
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This roundtable will address the subject of psychosis within and outside of the social link, with inquiry particularly related to knowledge production in testimonies of psychosis, as well as the potential and limitations of analytic listening and intervention.
Working with children & adolescents in institutional settings
W. Braun, K. Hennessey, D. Lichtenstein, C. Mosdell, O. Poznansky & E. Lieber (moderator/plus-one)
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This roundtable brings together child and adolescent analysts who work in institutional settings (schools, hospitals, courts, foster care systems) to discuss their ideas about their work, as well as how analytic work with children might help us understand more broadly the role of the psychoanalyst in the social.
Capitalism, identity & the circulation of hate
C. Chamberlin, B. Fong, C. Offenbacher, M. Oyer & J. Royal (moderator/plus-one)
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This segment will inquire into the circulation and dynamics of hate in contemporary culture, its links to the construction of social identities, and the role of capitalism in various forms in commodifying hate. A potential central question may be: if hate, in some form, is elemental to the human experience, how might we come to handle it ethically? In addition, how might we conceptualize hate's relationship to possible psychoanalytic intervention, both inside and outside of the consulting room?
The Object In/Of Extension
F. Bernthal Raz, J. Yusin & S. Boyles (moderator/plus-one)
This panel will explore the role of the 'object' in psychoanalytic extension and intervention, i.e., the nature of objects as they function as centers of meaning and convergence, as well as sites of stasis, creativity, and agency. This will help to inform questions about the act and function of psychoanalytic 'extension,' as well as questions regarding the transmission of the psychoanalytic position and practice itself.
The psychoanalytic 'vertex':
Orienting to the generative, dis-orienting effect of psychoanalysis
J. Ogilvie, J. Royal (discussant)
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Beginning with Bion's critique of his own psychoanalytic writing (that he cannot find himself or his patients within it), this segment will interrogate the psychoanalytic ‘vertex’ (to use Bion's term) and ask what about it escapes theorizing—a question that we may come to sense as itself characteristically psychoanalytic—in an attempt to articulate something of the potentialities of the psychoanalytic vertex as a support for intervention in the realms of public discourse. A second, Lacan-oriented lens will help highlight, from another theoretical angle, the questions at hand, thus supplementing the dialogue.