by Admin General | Nov 19, 2022
‘Rose coloured, in many different shadings … with uneven patches of blood’
Saturday 19 November 2022
5.30 – 7.30pm
Goldsmiths University – Room no. PSH LG02
Abstract
Of the five constitutive components of human sexuality, gender is by far the most complex and intractable. Apart from the fact that gender is indissolubly linked to the human ‘lived experience’, it is the component which, more than any of the others, enters the field of vision, is socio-culturally established in a wide range of symbolic forms, and has become strongly politicised, up to the point where it has intermittently featured on the agenda of the House of Commons. My principal aim in this lecture is to question the epistemological status of gender as a source of knowledge about oneself and as a site where language and embodiment seem to be forever embroiled in a Hegelian struggle for recognition and sovereignty. This will allow me to formulate a measured response to the recent provocation by Paul B. Preciado that psychoanalysis is fundamentally conditioned by a normative binary paradigm and therefore inherently trans*phobic, yet it will also enable me to review the questions as to how gender is made, whether it is a necessary precondition for the maintenance of human identity, and what would be lost were we to do away with the notion altogether.
Biography
Dany Nobus is Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at Brunel University London, Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council, and former Chair and Fellow of the Freud Museum London. He is the author of numerous books and papers on the history, theory and practice of psychoanalysis, most recently Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Studies in Lacanian Theory and Practice (Routledge 2022).
Tickets are £15 for the public, £12 for Site members and Goldsmith University staff, £10 for Site trainees and Goldsmith University Students and are available on Eventbrite.
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by Judith Soal | Jun 1, 2021
Video recording from this event is available to purchase: here.
Saturday 19 June, 2-4pm
Martin Buber’s I/Thou is relational: “Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation,” (Martin Buber, I and Thou). Building on Buber’s argument, when we say We, do we stand in relation to Them? Or, are we not standing in relation? As Andre Green suggests, is this an avoidance, a defense, against nothing, against negation?
Laura Chernaik is a psychoanalyst in private practice, a member of The Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Her publications include Social and Virtual Space (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2005) and New Hope, a science fiction novel (Kindle 2016). Work in progress includes In Your Stories: psychoanalytical listening, A discussion of a range of psychoanalytical history and theory from Freudian to Ferenczian and Lacanian to Relationalist with short stories fictionalising the practice.
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by Andie Newman | May 29, 2020
As part of its ‘Clinical Site’ series,
The SITE for Contemporary Psychoanalysis presents
A Psychoanalytical Approach to working with Couples
Friday 20th March 2020
18:30 – 21:30 GMT
October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester St, Holborn, London WC1N 3AL
Workshop 2 – Why do partners choose each other?
Why are some couples unable to separate despite being deeply unhappy together?
The mechanism of “projective identification”, first coined by Melanie Klein, is at the heart of the couple dynamic. When the partners’ projections complement each other, the couple relationship can act as a psychological container for the two individuals who create it. But when projections cloud the partners’ judgment and understanding of one another, intrusion and control may take over, and arguments escalate.
The concepts of ‘unconscious partner choice’ and ‘couple fit’ will be examined, as well as the use of the therapist’s countertransference to elucidate and help to regulate dysfunctional systems.
The presentation will combine power points, film clips and clinical material, and leave room for large and small discussion groups.
About Perrine and Martha
Perrine Moran is a couple psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She is a Visiting Clinician and Lecturer at Tavistock Relationships, where she co-leads an “MBT with couples” course and supervision workshop, and teaches on the MA in Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy. She also supervises at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is a board member of the International Association for Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and a member of the Editorial Board of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis, and its Arts Editor. She is bilingual, works with individuals and couples in English and in French, and has a private practice. She is an accredited member of the BPC and the BACP.
Martha Doniach is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist trained to work with individuals and couples. She is a full member of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling (Fpc-Wpf) and of the graduate body of Tavistock Relationships, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology. She has worked in East London NHS Foundation trust in a tier 2, Specialist Psychotherapy Adult outpatient service where she currently holds the position of Principal Psychotherapist and Honorary Psychotherapy Lead. At Tavistock Relationships she is a visiting lecturer and was previously a visiting clinician and worked as a tutor on the MA in psychodynamic counselling and psychotherapy. She also teaches and supervises at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She maintains a private practice in central London. She is an accredited member of BPC and UKCP.
Both workshops can be attended by participants or booked as stand alone.
Tickets cost £45 (Limited number of reduced price tickets available before 31st December 2019). There are only 25 places at the workshop so early booking is advisable.
