Annual Conference

Us, Them, and #MeToo:

Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Legacy of History

The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Practitioners and General Public [$150]; Students with ID [$65]:

Registration and doors open at 9 AM, Saturday

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4 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists

Jacqueline Rose, one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today, has written extensively on a range of topics including feminism, motherhood, politics, and psychoanalysis. She uses psychoanalytic theory to probe intrapsychic experience and its political significance as well as the unconscious dynamics of political forces. She is noted for the lucidity with which she illuminates and explores complex issues. Rose will begin the day with an exploration from a psychoanalytic perspective of the political implications of transgender subjectivities and the harassment of women. She will argue that the dialogue with psychoanalysis on transgender identities and the harassment of women – two of the most vexing, complex issues of our time – is as challenging as it continues to be urgent. She asks, What happens when we try to insert the concept of the unconscious into the reality of our political lives, or rather, when we recognize the place of the unconscious in the public identities we foster, inhabit, and fight? Both transgender issues and the harassment of women confront us with the question of social justice. Is it always the role of psychoanalysis to issue a caution in relation to our dreams of a better world, or might it belong right at the heart of our struggle to attain it?

Rose’s talk will be discussed by Adrienne Harris, a leading relational psychoanalyst and theorist of the construction of gender identities.

The afternoon session will consist of a conversation between Rose and Harris, moderated by psychoanalyst Tracy Morgan.

Jacqueline Rose, FBA, is internationally known for her writing on feminism, psychoanalysis, literature, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her books include Sexuality in the Field of Vision, The Last Resistance (both included in Verso’s Radical Thinkers series), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, States of Fantasy, The Question of Zion, Women in Dark Times, the novel Albertine, and The Jacqueline Rose Reader. Her latest book, Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty, was published this year in the UK by Faber and in the US by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. A regular writer for The London Review of Books, most recently on trans and sexual harassment, she is a co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is Co-Director and Professor of Humanities at Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London.

Adrienne Harris, PhD, is an instructor and supervisor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and an instructor and supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. In 2009, she, along with Lew Aron and Jeremy Safran, established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at New School University. She writes about a variety of topics, including gender and analytic subjectivity.
 

Tracy D. Morgan, MPhil, LCSW-R, is the founding editor of the webcast New Books in Psychoanalysis and is a founding member of Das Unbehagen. She was involved with ACT UP/NY in the 1980s and also served as an associate producer of the documentary Paris Is Burning. She is on the faculty of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis in New York City.

Richard J. Sacks, MA, LP, Conference Chair, is on the faculty of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, where he also serves as Director of Professional Events. He has a special interest in gender identity theory. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis in New York City.

Location:

The  Graduate  Center,  CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) New York City

LUNCH RECESS

There is a selection of restaurants with a range of cuisines at various price points in the immediate vicinity of the Graduate Center.