CANCELED: A Fanonian Perspective on the Analyst's Experience of Skin Color Difference: One of the Last Frontiers in Multicultural Discourse

Hybrid Presentation: In-Person and via Zoom
Cosponsored by The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers provided by CMPS.
2 CE Credits for Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors provided by BGSP.

Fanon views sociocultural influences on the unconscious as integral to psychic formation and central to all aspects of every individual’s experience of oneself in the world.  This presentation will explore the sociopolitical and economic influences on the “sociogeny” of the encounters between analyst and analysand, particularly Fanon’s contributions to our understanding of unconscious communication between the two.  The culturally informed associations and projections that both participants bring to the work will be examined in light of Fanon’s concepts of phobogenicity, epidermalization, internality, and the gaze, which are components of how culture informs people’s perceptions of the “others” in their world.

Annie Lee Jones, PhD, is a clinical psychologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Community Living Center in New York and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Queens.  She is faculty and past co-chair of the Ethnicity, Race, Culture, Class, and Language Committee at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, where she completed her psychoanalytic training.  She is also a faculty member at Adelphi University, the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, and the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity.  She is a fellow, supervisor, and training analyst at IPTAR, where she is also co-chair of the Arts and Society Committee and a member of the Board.   She has also taught at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy.  She is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak.  Her interests include the intrapsychic lives of Black American men and women and the economics of racialized internal processes.

Practitioners and General Public: $40
BGSP/BGSP-NY/CMPS Faculty and Staff: $25
Students: Free