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[Outside Event] Hate Your Neighbor as You Hate Yourself
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Hate Your Neighbor as You Hate Yourself: How to Think Psychoanalytically about Symptoms of Hate, Like Racism and Exclusion with Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. (Lecture)
Description: This
presentation proposes to think psychoanalytically about symptoms of
hate like racism, discrimination and exclusion. After the Covid-19
pandemic and the growing awareness of violent discrimination, structural
racism, and the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, it seems
that no analyst can be immune to the cultural context in which we work.
It seems unavoidable to take a position. The lecture will address
questions like: How is the current socio-political context affecting our
patients and how do we work this in the clinical practice? How might
the analyst's biases impede the treatment? How does that affect the
ideal of neutrality? Is it enough to be aware of our unconscious racism
and prejudice like heterosexism or gender normativity? How can we help
psychoanalysis develop and thrive in our currently conflicted situation?
Objectives:
- Develop a basic framework to think psychoanalytically about symptoms of hate, like racism and transphobia.
- Critically interrogate examples of how psychoanalytic practice contributes to or challenges stigmatization.
- Establish foundational concerns of intersectionality and become
more cognizant of racial injustice and other forms of prejudice, like
transphobia.
Biography: 
Patricia
Gherovici, Ph.D. is a 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.) She is completing (with Manya Steinkoler) Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans (Cambridge University Press: forthcoming Spring 2021.)