This group focuses on the theory, history, and practice of the “talking cure,” inviting both scholars and practicing psychoanalysts to lead discussions around a precirculated text. The theme for this year will be “Race and Psychoanalysis.

For RSVP and more information, comments or suggestions, please contact Eli P. Mandel.

ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-2018

1. Andrea Greenman, PhD

Friday, October 20, 2017. 4:00-5:30 p.m. 
241 Central Park West, Manhattan.

"First Meetings in Psychoanalysis"

Selected readings by Sheldon Bach, Stefano Bolognini, Rudi Vermote, and Sigmund Freud.

2. Donald Moss, M.D.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018. 7:00-8:30 p.m.
80 University Place, Manhattan.

"Mapping Racism"

Reading: Moss, Donald (2006). "Mapping Racism". Psychoanalytic Quarterly, LXXV., pp. 271-294.

3. David Lichtenstein, PhD

Wed., Feb. 28, 2018. 7:00-8:30 p.m.
80 University Place, 5A, Manhattan.

"The Return to the Source in the Freudian Drive"

Lacan. Chapters 13 & 14 from The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis (Book XI of Lacan's Seminars) NY: Norton. pp. 161-186.

Freud. Instincts and their Vicissitudes. SE vol. XIV, pp. 109-140. 

Freud. Chapter II from An Outline of Psycho-Analysis. SE vol. XXIII, pp. 148-151.

Suggested Reading: Beyond the Pleasure Principle. SE vol. XVIII, pp. 7-66.

4. Jared Russell, PhD

Friday, March 9, 2018. 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Location TBA.

"The Spectrality of the Clinical Frame"

Readings: 

José Bleger (1967). "Psycho-analysis of the Psycho-analytic Frame". International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 48(4), pp. 511-9. 

Sigmund Freud (1912). "Recommendations to Physicians Practicing Psycho-Analysis". S.E. XII, pp. 109-120.