CONFUSION OF TONGUES: EMBRACING HATE
Francesca Schwartz, PhD; Lissa Weinstein, PhD
Tuesdays, February 16, 23, March 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2027
7:30-9:00PM, In person: 22 W 82nd Street, New York, NY 10024
*Due to limited space availability, once registered, we are unable to issue any refunds*
“This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property fordoes itself.” —William Shakespeare
This six-session course focuses on Freud’s critical yet often less-embraced theme of aggression and its manifestations in treatment—hate, disgust, repulsion, and the pleasure of cruelty. Artists, poets, writers, and philosophers across centuries have foregrounded these passions; psychoanalysis must engage them as it seeks to alleviate suffering. The course explores how patient and analyst bear these forbidden pleasures and whether hatred, sadomasochism, and perversion arise from the same source.
The class uses a mixed format combining case material, lectures on foundational theory, psychoanalytic texts (Freud, Winnicott, Bion, Klein, Lacan, Bach, Searles), and literature/art (Brontë, de Sade, Poe, Kafka, Basquiat, Abramović, Goya, Bellmer, and the Chapman brothers).
9 Contact hours = 9 CE credits
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will become familiar with the historical antecedents that are the foundations of working psychoanalytically with hate.
- Participants will learn to recognize and work productively with transferential and countertransferential manifestations of hatred.
- Participants will be better able to understand perverse forms of desire that include an attitude of hatred towards and a need to control the object.
Francesca Schwartz, PhD, is a member of IPTAR and faculty in the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program. She co-chairs the BBC Committee, is a consulting psychologist and faculty member at Pratt Institute, and a graduate of the Child and Adolescent Analytic Training Program at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. She serves on the faculty of the White Institute, supervises at City College and IPTAR’s Externship Program, and is Art Editor and Editorial Board member of Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action. She maintains a psychoanalytic practice and a practice as a multimedia artist.
Lissa Weinstein, PhD, is a Professor in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at City College of New York and the Graduate Center. She is a graduate and faculty member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, a member of IPTAR, and a fiction writer. She serves on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and Psychoanalytic Psychology.
9 CE credits
- $480 general admission
- $330 IPTAR members
- $300 IPTAR candidates
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will become familiar with the historical antecedents that are the foundations of working psychoanalytically with hate.
- Participants will learn to recognize and work productively with transferential and countertransferential manifestations of hatred.
- Participants will be better able to understand perverse forms of desire that include an attitude of hatred towards and a need to control the object.
9 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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