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2023-2024 Course Registration

    • 10 Sep 2023
    • (CDT)
    • 19 May 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 9 sessions
    • Zoom (Instructor will send instructions)

    CANCELED

    Margaret Fulton, PhD

    Begins September 10, 2023


    • 15 Oct 2023
    • (CDT)
    • 19 May 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 7 sessions
    • In-Person (Instructor will send instructions)
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    Suzanne Rosenfeld, MD

    Begins October 15, 2023


    • 13 Apr 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 14 Apr 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 3 sessions
    • Kinzie Hotel, 20 West Kinzie St., Chicago, IL (and via Zoom)
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    Sheldon George

    April 12-14, 2024

    Kinzie Hotel ( Wolf Point Room, 5th floor)

    20 West Kinzie Street, Chicago 

    & ZOOM


    Sheldon George is Chair of the department of Literature & Writing at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts.  His scholarship centers on application of cultural and literary theory to analyses of American and African American literature and culture.  George is chair of the Executive Committee of the MLA forum Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature.  He is an associate editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society and has coedited two special issues of that journal: one titled “Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Interventions into Culture and Politics” and the other titled “African Americans and Inequality.”  His book Trauma and Race, published in 2016, is the first to offer an extended Lacanian analysis of African American identity.  George is coeditor, with Jean Wyatt, of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers; and his recent publications include the pioneering collection of essays, coedited with Derek Hook, Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory.

    Seminar Title: Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Race and Difference

    Seminar description:  Though Lacanian theory speaks of difference and the role of the Other in the psyche, Lacanian theorists have only recently begun to imagined this other as raced and gendered.  This seminar will engage Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to explore what it teaches us of the psyche’s relation to race and difference.  The seminar will start with a basic overview of Lacan’s rethinking of psychoanalytic theory through his use of linguistics, reading Lacan’s early works like “The Agency of the Letter” and “The Mirror Stage” alongside of the writing of Structural Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.  It will then engage works by Lacan and his student, Jacques Alain-Miller, to talk about the role of difference and aggression in psychoanalysis.  Finally, the seminar will focus on the writing of contemporary Lacanian theories who deploy the theory in analyses of difference based on race and sexuality.  Thus moving through Lacan’s theories on language and difference, we will explore how Lacan’s nuanced understanding of the psyche has lent itself to sophisticated elaborations of the psychic motivations that guide our contemporary relations to differences of race, sex and gender.

    Reading List: 

    Saturday Morning

    Saussure, Ferdinand de.  “Nature of the Linguistic Sign” and “[Binary Oppositions]”

    Lacan, Jacques.  “The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious or Reason Since Freud”

    Lacan, Jacques.  Ecrits Ch.1 “The Mirror Stage as Formative”

    Saturday Afternoon

    Lacan, Jacques.  Ecrits Ch 2. “Agressivity in Psychoanalysis”

    Baldwin, James. “Going to Meet the Man”

    Sunday

    George, Sheldon.  Trauma and Race.  “Introduction: Race Today”

    Miller, Jacques, Alain.  “Extimité.”

    O’Connor, Flannery. “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

    Stephanie Swales.  “Transphobia in the Bathroom: Sexual Difference, Alterity and Jouissance.”


    • 4 May 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 5 May 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 3 sessions
    • Kinzie Hotel, 20 West Kinzie St., Chicago, IL (and via Zoom)
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    Anton Hart, PhD

    May 3-5, 2024

    Kinzie Hotel ( Wolf Point Room)

    20 West Kinzie Street, Chicago 

    & ZOOM


    Dr. Hart is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty of the William Alanson White Institute. He lectures and consults nationally and internationally. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Psychology and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published articles and book chapters on a variety of subjects including psychoanalytic safety and mutuality, issues of racial, sexual and other diversities, and psychoanalytic pedagogy.  He is a member of the group, Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and, also, Co-produced and was featured in the documentary film of the same name. He teaches at  Mt. Sinai Hospital, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies National Training Program, the Institute for Relational Psychoanalysis of Philadelphia, and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He serves as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality. He is in the process of completing a book for Routledge entitled, Beyond Oaths or Codes: Toward a Relational Psychoanalytic Ethics. He is in full-time private practice of psychoanalysis, individual and couple psychotherapy, psychotherapy supervision and consultation, and organizational consultation, in New York.

    Seminar title: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Diversity: Turning Toward the Other, Opening Oneself

    Seminar description : This course aims to address issues of racial, ethnic and other diversities in the psychoanalytic situation, approaching them from a perspective that stands in contrast to current, popular approaches emphasizing the acquisition of “multicultural competence.” The course will examine the central roles of curiosity and openness, and also their obstacles, in considering how difference between self and other in the treatment process may be engaged and transcended. 

    Preliminary Reading List:

    A. Course Introduction: Our Collective Ambivalence About Diversity Issues

    Recommended reading: 

    Hart, A. H. (2020). Principles for teaching diversity and otherness from a psychoanalytic perspective. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 56(2-3), 404-417.

    B. Approaching Issues of Race

    Reading: 

    Stoute, B. J. & Slevin, M. (2017). Conversations on psychoanalysis and race: Part III Introduction. The American Psychoanalyst, 51(1), 8.

    Holmes, D. (2017). The fierce urgency of now: An appeal to organized psychoanalysis to take a strong stand on race. The American Psychoanalyst, 51(1), 1-9.

    Stoute, B. J. (2017). Race and racism in psychoanalytic thought: Ghosts in our nursery. The American Psychoanalyst, 51(1), 10-29.

    Hart, A. (2017). From multicultural competence to radical openness: A psychoanalytic engagement of otherness. The American Psychoanalyst, 51(1), 12-27.

    A. Thinking, Linking and Formulating

    Reading:

    Bion, W. R. (1959). (1959). Attacks on linking. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 40, 308-315

    Recommended:

    Stern, D. B. (2013). Relational freedom and therapeutic action. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 61, 227-255. 

    B. Curiosity, Inquiry, Hermeneutics

    Reading:

    Davison, A. (2015). Hermeneutics and the question of transparency. Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: Newsletter of the American Political Science Association's QMMR Section, 13(1), 43-47.

    Levenson, E. A. (1988). The pursuit of the particular: On the psychoanalytic inquiry. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 24, 1-16

    C. Racism’s Impact

    Reading:

    Baldwin, J. (1962). Notes from a region in my mind. The New Yorker, November.

    Recommended:

    Gump, J. (2011). Reality matters: The shadow of trauma on African-American subjectivity. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 27 (1), 42-54.

    Hart, A. H. (2019). The discriminatory gesture: A psychoanalytic consideration of posttraumatic reactions to incidents of racial discrimination, Psychoanalytic Social Work, 24 April, 2-20.

    D. Psychoanalytic Inquiry into Racism in Shades of Black and White

    Reading: 

    White, K. P. (2002). Surviving hating and being hated: Some personal thoughts about racism from a psychoanalytic perspective. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 38, 401-422.

    Recommended:

    Holmes, D. E. (2019). Our country ‘tis of we and them: Psychoanalytic perspectives on our fractured American identity. American Imago, Volume 76, Number 3, (Fall) 359-379.

    Suchet, M. (2007). Unraveling Whiteness. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 17:867-886.

    A. Turning Toward the Other

    Reading:

    Matheny, B., Teng, B., & Hart, A. (2021). Radical Openness: An interview with Anton Hart (Part I). Room, 2:21, 14-17.

    Recommended: 

    Matheny, B., Hart, A., & Teng, B. (2021). Radical Openness: An interview with Anton Hart (Part II). Room, 6:21, 38-43.

    B. Other Forms of Otherness Such as Sexual

    Reading:

    Easton, D. & Hardy, J. W. (2009). The ethical slut: A practical guide to polyamory, open relationships & other adventures. Berkeley: Celestial Arts. (Chapters 2-3)

    Recommended:

    Bersani, L. & Phillips, A. (2008). Intimacies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [selections]

    C. A “Subversive” Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Perspectives

    Reading:

    Moss, D. (2021). On having whiteness. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic  Association, 69(2), 355-371.

    Recommended:

    Hymer, S. (2005). Subversive redemption in psychoanalysis. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 65:207-217.


    • 22 Jun 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 23 Jun 2024
    • (CDT)
    • 3 sessions
    • Kinzie Hotel, 20 West Kinzie St., Chicago, IL (and via Zoom)
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    Paul Williams, PhD

       June 21-23, 2024

    Kinzie Hotel ( Wolf Point Room)

    20 West Kinzie Street, Chicago 

    & ZOOM


    Dr Paul Williams trained as a Psychoanalyst with The British Psychoanalytical Society where he was a Training and Supervising Analyst. He won the Rosenfeld Essay Prize for the treatment of severe disturbance. He was Joint Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis with Glen Gabbard between 2001 and 2007 and became a Consultant Psychotherapist in the British National Health Service in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he worked in an out-patient clinic and a Forensic Unit to provide treatment for traumatized patients. He lives and works in private psychoanalytic practice in Northern California. He has published many papers and books on the subject of severe disturbance and psychosis. He recently produced a highly acclaimed experimental trilogy on the literary depiction of severe disturbance from the inside: The Fifth Principle (Routledge, 2010). Scum (Routledge, 2013), The Authority of Tenderness (Routledge 2021). 

    Seminar title : Reflections on some clinical consequences of Trauma, Psychosis and Soul Murder

    Seminar Description:  This seminar will consider clinical work with severely disturbed individuals through the lens of experiences of Trauma, Psychosis and Soul Murder. Psychoanalysis has, historically, maintained an uneasy relationship with traumatic events, despite a great deal of knowledge about them.  How can we think about phenomena of impingement, the intra-psychic consequences, the contribution of subjective fantasy to severe disturbance, and the interplay of fantasy and reality in a traumatized mind? The focus of the seminar will be on experiences more than attempts to theorize experiences.

    Readings:  Pending


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