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December 2021
Some Observations on the Psychodynamics of Race, Caste, Class, and Ethnic Differences in the Analytic Dyad (In-person Presentation)
Annie Lee Jones explores the shifting meanings of racialized experiences in the psychoanalytic dyad as differences along the lines of caste, class, race, and ethnicity emerge in the treatment. These differences are not just between people of different races–there are caste, class, and ethnic variations within the blackness or whiteness of analyst and analysand–and they are often projected or denied, providing rich material for exploration. Their complexity affects the transference-countertransference matrix in multiple ways. Annie Lee Jones, PhD, is a clinical
Find out more »“Truth shall spring out of the earth”: The Analyst as Gatherer of Sense Impressions (Online Presentation)
In this presentation, Avner Bergstein will reflect on our attempt to approach the unknowable, ultimate reality of the psychoanalytic experience and the unrepressed unconscious. He will trace Bion's evolving thinking about the analyst's intuition as a primary tool in this endeavor. In exploring the clinical implications of psychoanalytic intuition, he will highlight the perpetual to-and-fro between cohesion and dispersion, conception and intuition, and the finite and the infinite in pursuit of the ineffable, suggesting that intuition entails the capacity to
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