RADICAL PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE WORK OF JEAN LAPLANCHE
Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP
Fridays, February 2, 9, 16, 23, 2024
10:30am-12:00PM (ET)
In-Person (7 person cap)
139 W 82 ST. #lCD, NYC
6 Contact Hours = 6 CE Credits
Among contemporary thinkers, Laplanche is unique for insisting on an approach of “faithful infidelity” to Freud, which simultaneously follows Freud and criticizes him when he ‘goes astray.’ This approach – which neither worships Freud nor dismisses him entirely – represents a novel intervention in contemporary debates, offering a ‘third way’ beyond entrenched and enduring debates. In order to grapple with Laplanche’s innovations and evaluate their impact on our field, this course focuses on several of Laplanche’s central concepts- (1) sexuality, (2) seduction, (3) translation and (4) the enigmatic signifier. We will pay particular attention to how Laplanche’s reformulations challenge psychoanalytic doxa from within and the impact of these ideas for treatment.
Teaching Method: Reading and Discussion of Laplanche’s Freud and The Sexual, Essays on Otherness, New Foundations for Psychoanalysis
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will become acquainted with core psychoanalytic concepts of Laplanche’s metapsychology.
2. Participants will understand how Laplanche’s ideas are employed in clinical work.
Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP is a professor, psychoanalyst and writer. She teaches at Columbia University and is in private practice in New York City. She is the author of Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham UP, 2021), Exigent Psychoanalysis: The Interventions of Jean Laplanche (Routledge, 2021) and an experimental memoir, Aural History (Punctum, 2020). She is on the Faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City, and her primary areas of academic and clinical expertise include affect-thought disorders, trauma, identity, and sexuality.
6 CE credits
- $240 general admission
- $220 members
- $200 candidates / students
Learning Objectives:
1. Participants will become acquainted with core psychoanalytic concepts ofLaplanche’s metapsychology.
2. Participants will understand how Laplanche’s ideas are employed in clinical work.
6 CE credits will be granted to participants who have registered, have documented evidence of attendance of the entire program and have completed the on-line evaluation form. Upon completion of the evaluation form a Certificate of Completion will be emailed to all participants who comply with these requirements.
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