Please Select Your Jacques Lacan

In-person and Online

Freud’s invention of psychoanalysis cannot be restricted to knowledge, as psychoanalysis is also a clinical practice, and as such its operative concepts rely on (and relay) the singularity of each case. This seminar will consist in the exploration of four case studies in order to explain how Lacanian theory revolutionizes the clinic. Dr. Gherovici will demonstrate that a Lacanian perspective deploys an ethics of sexual difference and situates clinical interventions at the intersection of race, class, and the unconscious.

Facilitator: Patricia Gherovici is a world-renowned psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group and Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania (PSYS), Honorary Member at IPTAR the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City, and Founding Member of Das Unbehagen.

Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press: 2003) winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize, Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge: 2010) and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference (Routledge: 2017). She has published two edited volumes (both with Manya Steinkoler) Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t (Routledge: 2015) and Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy (Cambridge University Press: 2016). Most recently, she published a collection (with Chris Christian) Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (Routledge: 2019) . Visit her website.

VIDEOS:

Psychoanalysis Needs a Sex Change

What Is Psychoanalysis?

Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class and the Unconscious

Date: Saturday, February 8, 10am-2pm
In-person cost: $90. If you feel that you can benefit from our seminars, but can not afford to pay the full amount, we encourage you to communicate with us by filling out this scholarship request form.
Online cost: Visit Online Seminars.
Readings: Matters of Life and Sex: Trans-ing Psychoanalysis: online text; Transgender expressions and psychosis: Towards an ethics of sexual difference” British Journal of Psychotherapy 35, 3 (2019) 417–430: PDF file.