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Person Place Thing at NYPSI

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  •  February 13, 2020
     7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Friends of the Library present
Person Place Thing at NYPSI

Thursday, February 13, 2019

7:00 pm

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great speakers.

At this evening’s show, Randy Cohen will interview writer Sarah Boxer, accompanied by music by Jill Sobule.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

 

Sarah Boxer is a writer of non-fiction and graphic fiction. She has published three books: In the Floyd Archives, a cartoon novel based on Freud’s case histories, its post-Freudian sequel Mother, May I?, and the anthology Ultimate Blogs. She is a contributing writer at the Atlantic and has written for a range of magazines, from the New York Review of Books to Artforum. Her essays appear in such anthologies as the Peanuts Papers, You Are Here: NYC, and Best American Comics Criticism. From 1998 to 2006, at the New York Times, she served variously as photo critic, Web critic, arts reporter, and editor at the Week in Review and the Book Review. She is now working on a series of Shakespearean tragic-comics (with animals), including Hamlet: Prince of Pigs and Anchovius Caesar: The Decomposition of a Romaine Salad.

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics).

His first television work was writing for Late Night With David Letterman, for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s TV Nation. He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it.

For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, The Punishing Blow, ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything, was published by Chronicle.  He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

Jill Sobule is an American songwriter/guitarist/singer (and Sarah Boxer’s cousin), best known for her 1995 “I Kissed a Girl,” and “Supermodel,” from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads. In a dozen albums spanning three decades, the Denver-born artist has tackled such topics as the death penalty, anorexia nervosa, shoplifting, reproduction, the French Resistance, adolescent malaise, LGBTQ issues, and the Christian Right.

This event will be recorded for broadcast on Northeast Public Radio. For more information and to hear past episodes, visit PersonPlaceThing.org

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On Having Whiteness

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  •  January 14, 2020
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The 1041st Scientific Program Meeting:

“On Having Whiteness”

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenter: Donald Moss, M.D.

Discussant: Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D.

This presentation will focus on Whiteness as a condition one first acquires and then one has– a malignant, parasitic-like, condition. The condition is malignant because it spreads/metastasizes, targeting an ever-widening sphere of objects. It is parasitic in that it is contagious, passed on by other infected people.  Biologically “white” people have a particular susceptibility. to “Whiteness”. This susceptibility is grounded in pre-existing hierarchical representations of self and object — in any representation that organizes self and other in a vertical relation, powerful and powerless. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable and perverse. In order to preserve and defend its original hierarchies, it must continuously engender new and expansive ones. For Whiteness, the most perceptually available category over which to establish hierarchical relations is “color”.  Race provides “Whiteness” its easiest target.

2 CME/ CE credits offered. 

Donald Moss, M.D. is in private practice in New York City.  Dr. Moss is Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Program Committee and he has been on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, American Imago, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.  He is the author of four books including, most recently, At War with the Obvious and I and You, as well as 60 articles, the most recent of which is  “Hate Speech/Love
Speech and Neutrality in and out of the Clinical Situation” (JAPA, 2019).  In 2017, he received the Elizabeth Young Bruehl Award for Work Against Prejudice and was a plenary speaker at the American Psychoanalytic Association meeting of 2016 where he presented “The Insane Look of the Bewildered Half-Broken Animal.”  Dr. Moss is a founding member of The Green Gang, a group of analysts/scientists working on climate change denial.

Dorothy Evans Holmes, Ph.D., is a Teaching, Training, and Supervising Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, Professor and Psy.D. Program Director Emeritus at the George Washington University, and Teaching, Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.  Dr. Holmes is widely-recognized for her work on the impact of race and gender on the psychoanalytic process. Her most recent of many refereed journal articles appeared in the fall, 2019 issue of American Imago (2019:76:359-379).  The paper is entitled “Our Country ‘tis of We and Them:  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity”. Dr. Holmes continues to be involved in national psychoanalytic organization leadership roles and she practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Bluffton, SC.

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Discuss the concept of internal racial identity
  2. Assess the obstacles to clinicians’ effectively working effectively with issues of race in the therapeutic relationship
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Works in Progress Seminar: The Language of the Mother and the Language of the Father

Event Phone: 212-879-6900

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  •  January 8, 2020
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar: The Language of the Mother and the Language of the Father: Sabina Spielrein’s Anticipation of the Concepts of Jacques Lacan, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

8:00 pm

Presenter: Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D.

Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was a Russian-Jewish forerunner of child analysis. I will focus on her model of the development of language and thought first formulated in the presentation delivered at the International Psychoanalytic Congress held in The Hague in 1920, and then expanded in a number of papers. I will show how Spielrein’s model anticipated by thirty years Jacques Lacan’s concept of the three orders, Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, and how her concept of the autistic primitive language associated with the mother anticipated the theories of Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray who postulate a non-symbolic feminine language associated with the mother, corporality and feminine jouissance.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

 

Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D., cultural historian, founding director of the International Association for Spielrein Studies (www.spielreinassociation.org), and 2019/2020 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University). Recent and forthcoming publications: “Passions, Politics, and Drives: Sabina Spielrein in Soviet Russia” in: Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis: Thought, Word, and Image (Routledge, 2019) and “Sabina Spielrein: Searching for her own path” in: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of War and Holocaust (in Polish, Universitas, 2020). Klara is the main organizer of the first International Conference “Sabina Spielrein and the Early Female Pioneers of Psychoanalysis” (2-4 April 2020, Warsaw).

 

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Works In Progress Seminar: Formations of the Body in Psychoanalysis

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  •  December 4, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works In Progress Seminar:

Formations of the Body in Psychoanalysis

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

8:00 pm

Presenter: Jennifer Yusin

Can we say there is a unique psychoanalytic concept of the body? What role do the ideas of the maternal and paternal body play in the development of psychoanalytic theory and practice? How does the psychoanalytic clinic account for the body—its diverse forms, expressions, identities, etc.—in its approaches to and treatments of neurosis and psychosis? In this presentation, I will attempt to deepen our understanding of the body by exploring the ways it is linked to formations of symptoms and symptomatic acts. I will consider together Jacques Lacan’s proposition of the ‘sinthome’, a non-pathological symptom that has a function analogous to art, and Freud’s lifelong work on the symptom as a metaphor for an unconscious conflict. This presentation will also therefore address the possibilities of a psychoanalytic concept of the body in the study and teaching of psychoanalysis today.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

Jennifer Yusin is an associate professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University and member of the School of the Freudian Letter (London). Her academic work explores the relations among psychoanalysis, philosophy, and global anglophone cultures and literatures. Her works include The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetitions (Fordham University Press, 2017) and “Postcolonial Trauma,” in Trauma and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is also the editor and co-translator of the English translations of books by Jean-Gérard Bursztein, a psychoanalyst who practices and teaches in Paris. Those books include My Lexicon of Psychoanalysis, A Psychoanalytic Commentary of the Hebrew Bible, and Subject Topology: A Lexicon (Hermann Press, 2019). She is currently training in clinical psychoanalytic work.

 

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Screening and Discussion of “Ida”

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  •  November 20, 2019
     7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

A.A. Brill Library Film Event:

Screening and Discussion of “Ida”

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Post-film Discussant: Gilda Sherwin, M.D.

Ida, an Oscar winning Polish movie made in 2012, takes us back to the Poland of 1962. Set against the historic backdrop of the Holocaust and Stalinism in conjunction with more contemporary cultural developments – such as the fresh glimmerings of jazz  – we witness the personal journey of a young woman, a novitiate in convent and her cynical, though once ideologically inspired aunt, in search for hidden truths about their tragic past. This is a personal tale about faith and identity as well as a political story about betrayal and guilt.

In her discussion, Gilda Sherwin will focus on how the complex entanglement of individual and collective trauma informs the making of this movie. She will explore the lasting effects on the Polish psyche of being implicated in the crimes of the Holocaust. She will also address how unconscious, unaddressed guilt continues not only to help frame the representation of Jews and Jewishness in the Polish cultural and historical imaginary, but also how it literally and symbolically reenacts their elimination.

No CME/CE credits offered. 

Gilda Sherwin, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst at NYPSI and in full time practice in Manhattan. As part of her longstanding interest in massive psychic trauma she worked with severely traumatized individuals, mainly survivors of state sponsored torture, persecution and genocide and served as a mental health advisor to Khmer Legacies. In 2002 she co-founded a study group on Trauma and Transmission of Trauma at NYPSI and presently teaches a course on Psychic Trauma.  She has given many presentations and talks on this subject: “Multiple Meanings of Trauma: Trauma and Re-traumatization in Torture Survivors”, “Why Do Young Muslim Men Join Militant Islamist Terrorist Groups: Integration of Individual Psychology with Large Group Dynamics within a Specific Historical Context”, “Trans-generational Transmission of Trauma and the Memorial Candles Children Narrative”, as well as Trans-generational Transmission of Trauma as Resistance in the Treatment of Children of Survivors.”

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