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  • The Reckoning of Psychoanalysis: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class (Online Workshop)

    SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020  |  9:00 AM — 1:00 PM, VIA ZOOM

    4 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

    Practitioners and General Public: $80 | Students: Free

    Email cmps@cmps.edu to register

    This workshop will examine aspects of human experience that have historically been neglected in psychoanalytic theory and practice–race, social inequality, and gender identity. These constructed categories of difference constitute a “repressed” symptomatically haunting psychoanalysis.

    Patricia Gherovici, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. She is a cofounder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group; Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania; Honorary Member of IPTAR; 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 (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). She just completed coediting Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

    A zoom link for this online event will be emailed to registrants a few days before the event begins.

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