Freud Lecture: Freud in his Psychosocial Generation: Durkheim, Simmel, Weber and Du Bois

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The 62nd Freud Anniversary Lecture:

“Freud in his Psychosocial Generation: Durkheim, Simmel, Weber and Du Bois”

(Note: Registration closes 5/9 at 4 PM.)

Tuesday, May 9, 2023

8:00 pm – 9:45 pm (EST)

Presenter and Honoree: Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D.

Anna Balas, M.D. will introduce the speaker

“‘Civilized’ Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness.”  Totem and Taboo.  “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.”  Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.  The Future of an Illusion.  Civilization and its Discontents.  From his earliest cases to the end of his life, Freud reached from psyche to society.  He is joined in these dual interests by the generation of founding sociologists, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Max Weber, and W.E.B. Du Bois, all of whom were born within 12 years of Freud, all of whose writings reach from society to psyche.  This presentation describes the psychosocio-sociopsychic ideas of these writers and situates Freud among them.

No CMEs/CEs offered.

Nancy Chodorow’s work spans psychoanalysis, sociology, feminism and anthropology.  She is Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, has been a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and is faculty at BPSI and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.  She serves on the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Chodorow became a household name with the publication in 1978 of The Reproduction of Mothering.  Award-winning at the time and translated into many languages, the book was named as one of the most influential books of the past 25 years.  In 2002, Feminism and Psychology published a symposium, The Reproduction of Mothering: A Reappraisal, and in 2020 Petra Bueskens published the collection, Nancy Chodorow and the Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On.

In 2004, Chodorow defined an American independent tradition – intersubjective ego psychology.  Her 2020 book, The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition, extends her formulation.   The book also looks to the integration of psychoanalysis and the social, from Freud to the present. Last year, she was one of two keynote speakers at the opening of the Hans Loewald Center.

In her 2023 Freud Lecture, “Freud in his Psychosocial Generation,” Chodorow brings her synthetic talents to situate Freud among his sociologist contemporaries and to show how these sociologists drew upon psychological insight.