PSYCHOANALYTIC SEMINARS FOR SCHOLARS 2007-2008
Chair: Claire Kahane, Ph.D.
at UC Berkeley
Psychoanalysis and War
The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis will be offering a year-long "Seminars for Scholars" (2007-2008) on the general topic of Psychoanalysis and War. Geared toward graduate students and other interested academics in the non-clinical disciplines who would like to learn more about psychoanalytic theory and its relation to practice, these sessions will be led by leading Bay Area psychoanalysts with extensive clinical expertise. These continuing seminars are free of charge.
In providing a forum for the juxtaposition of academic and clinical perspectives, we hope not only to encourage interdisciplinary research and conversation among diverse fields of study but also to increase an understanding of theory by exploring its embodiment in everyday life. Given the increasing global violence of our time, an ongoing discussion that makes use of the experience of practicing analysts to explore the psychodynamics of war as well as to understand its effects on the individual and the sociality seems not only relevant, but necessary.
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 P.M.
Place: 306 Wheeler Hall (closest entrance is Sather Gate), UC Berkeley.
*Directions to SRC can be viewed at: http://srcweb.berkeley.edu/direction.html
Fall, 2007
September 27: Erik Gann: Selected papers of Freud: On Narcissism, Civilization and Its Discontents, Chapter 6, Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, Why War?
October 18: Jed Sekoff: ‘Savage Melancholia': A look at the relation of unbearable grief, persecutory shame and vengeance.
November 15: Ricardo Winkel: ‘The Origins of Prejudice in Normal Development’: Selected readings: "Liberalism and Regression," by Peter Gay, in: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 1982, vol. 37, pp. 523-545.
December 6: Noa Farchi (Visiting Scholar, UC): The Question of the Subject in War Times: a Lacanian View.
Spring, 2008
February 14: Rachael Peltz and Nancy Hollander: On the Role of the Psychoanalyst During Times of War, with Attention to the Underlying Anxieties Unearthed by War.
March 13: Peter Goldberg: The Mass Psychology of Dissociation and its Individual Variants: Adapting to Dehumanization in War and in Everyday Life.
April 17: Henry Markman: on Bion, Theory of Groups, and Lord of the Flies.
May 12: Karen Peoples: On History Beyond Trauma: The Transmission of War in the Social Unconsciuos.
For registration please contact Max Lee, Ext. Div. Coordinator, at 415-563-5815.
Visit our website at www.sf-cp.org
