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Between Remembering and Forgetting: Reckoning with Racialized Transmissions
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January 27 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
HYBRID PRESENTATION (IN-PERSON AND ZOOM)
COSPONSORED BY CMPS AND THE BOSTON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
PRACTITIONERS AND GENERAL PUBLIC: $40
BGSP/NYGSP/CMPS FACULTY AND STAFF: $25
STUDENTS w/ID: FREE
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The backdrop for this presentation is the recent upsurge in racial violence, such as the murder of George Floyd, that underscores the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy in the US. Salberg argues that we are currently witnessing a return of transgenerationally transmitted, inherited racial hatred that had been repressed, denied, and refused. The challenge for psychoanalysis is to consider how our theories and praxis keep in place whiteness as the unmarked category, a standard benefitting itself that causes the legacy of embedded racism to continue to be reproduced. Transgenerational transmission of racial trauma and the rupturing of attachments are examined personally and in a clinical case with a white patient.
Jill Salberg, PhD, is a faculty member and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Stephen Mitchell Center, and ICP, and a member of IPTAR. She is the editor of and contributor to Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives (2010) and Psychoanalytic Credos: Personal and Professional Journeys of Psychoanalysts (2022). She coauthored, with Sue Grand, Transgenerational Trauma: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, forthcoming). She conceived of and coedits a book series, Psyche and Soul: Psychoanalysis, Spirituality, and Religion in Dialogue (Routledge). She is in practice in Manhattan.