Seminar | Saturday, October 25, 2:00PM - 4:00PM, via Zoom videoconference
Topic: Graduate Society

Can Psychoanalysts Listen To Each Other?

The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined, from an insider’s perspective, as analysts’ difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts’ anxiety with erotic excitement, especially with racial erotics, even when used for self-affirmation, is discussed. So too is the need for Othering and the need for those who have been Othered to validate themselves, using anger for self-affirmation. Not primarily psychoanalytic ethics, ethics for psychoanalysts, but human ethics, valuing of the other, of our relationship with the other, be-comes the pathway for psychoanalysts to listen to the other. Emmanuel Lev-inas and his psychoanalytic elaborator, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine, are seen as triumphing over their own personal Holocaust trauma via their model of ethical behavior with others. Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Judith Butler, and Stephen Frosh help us get there. The author emphasizes our failures, including his own.

Event Location

Seminar | Saturday, October 25, 2:00PM - 4:00PM, via Zoom videoconference

About the Event.

The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined, from an insider’s perspective, as analysts’ difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts’ anxiety with erotic excitement, especially with racial erotics, even when used for self-affirmation, is discussed. So too is the need for Othering and the need for those who have been Othered to validate themselves, using anger for self-affirmation. Not primarily psychoanalytic ethics, ethics for psychoanalysts, but human ethics, valuing of the other, of our relationship with the other, be-comes the pathway for psychoanalysts to listen to the other. Emmanuel Lev-inas and his psychoanalytic elaborator, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine, are seen as triumphing over their own personal Holocaust trauma via their model of ethical behavior with others. Frantz Fanon, Albert Memmi, Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Judith Butler, and Stephen Frosh help us get there. The author emphasizes our failures, including his own.

About Our Speaker.

Stanley J. Coen, MD

Dr. Coen is a Training and Supervising Analyst, and has been Senior Associate Director for Academic Affairs, at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis , and the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. He is the author of The Misuse of Persons: Analyzing Pathological Dependency, 1992, The Analytic Press; Between Author and Reader: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Writing and Reading, 1994, Columbia University Press; and Affect Intolerance in Patient and Analyst. 2002, Jason Aronson. He has published extensively on problems in clinical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic literary criticism. He chairs (now co-chairs)the subcommittee on University Forum of the APSA Program Committee, which has recently produced the outstanding series, Racism in America. He has chaired the Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism of APsaA since 1984.

Learning Objectives.

  1. Learning Objective #1: To better tolerate the excitement of racial erotics when used for self-affirmation, without needing to shut it down.

  2. Learning Objective #2: To better understand and then tolerate rage in those who have felt oppressed, both patients and colleagues, when it is being used for self-affirmation.

CME/ CE Statement.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

 

Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

 

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.

 

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

CME/ CE Credits Available: 2

Citations.

Viviane Chetrit-Vatine. The Ethical Seduction of the Analytic Situation : The Feminine-Maternal Origins of Responsibility for the Other. Routledge, 2013.
Kite, J. V. (2016) The Fundamental Ethical Ambiguity of the Analyst as Person. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 64:1153-1171.
Black, D. M. (2020). The working of values in ethics and religion. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 101(5),992–1013.
Gómez, E. & Kovalskys, J. (2018) Reencounter With History and Memory Through a Therapeutic Process. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 28:102-114

How to Prepare.

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