Upcoming Lectures & Talks
4 upcoming lectures and talks from Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Sat Oct 24 · 9:30am
Drawing on Jacques Lacan and Frantz Fanon, Sheldon George reads American racial whiteness as a fantasy that “sutures symbolic and imaginary registers of experience.” Dennis Plant responds with Lacanian accounts of jouissance and repetition to examine how racism forms and endures, and Eben Lasker moderates. The panel aims to keep the theory accessible to newcomers to Lacan. Two CE credits are offered.
Sat Nov 14 · 9:30am
A clinically focused seminar on psychic pain as a dimension of suicidal experience, and on whether at its most extreme it works as a proto-affect — something not yet symbolised enough to be named or thought about. For clinicians; part of MIP's West Program in the Pioneer Valley.
Sat Nov 14 · 9:30am
Jade McGleughlin examines the dangers of normative psychoanalytic theories of gender applied to transgender and gender-nonconforming lives. Using Alessandra Lemma's writing on transgender adolescents and her case of “Jane,” she explores how open-minded inquiry can reproduce cisgender norms, and proposes a clinical stance of “genuine not-knowing.” McGleughlin, author of Clinical Storytelling, Art and the Problems of Being, is joined by discussant Francisco González and moderator Daniel Fishman.
Sat Dec 12 · 9:30am
Diane Barth, LCSW, presents on the “unthought known,” dissociation and “unformulated thoughts” in contemporary therapeutic relationships, with Ira Sharkey moderating. Part of MIP’s West Program in the Pioneer Valley, the morning runs from coffee through a two-hour program to informal conversation; it is in person only, limited to 15 participants and not livestreamed. Psychologists, physicians and social workers can earn two continuing education credit hours.
