Series: Decentralized Learning Experiences
A learning experience can be almost anything, and any licensed clinician can propose one. It can be about a paper, a book or a movie. It can tackle an idea, such as field theory or dream analysis or focus on the work of a theorist. The format can be didactic or it can be a leaderless seminar or a one-hour conversation. It can be a one-off event or a series of weekly, biweekly, or monthly meetings. Currently, this program is in its pilot stage, so certain limits may apply.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s Learning Experiences are free.
Not all events are recorded. When we record an event it can be found in the archive.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
Defenses against Truth-Telling and Reparative Action
Tuesday, February 3rd | 6:00 – 7:30 PM PT
Description
How might we understand group forms of conscious and unconscious obstacles to political projects of truth-telling and reparation? This talk entertains some of the ways such obstacles have been described, including as an effect of “moral injury,” as an inability to experience “deserved shame,” as a “group-reinforced denial” of causing harm, and as an effect of obedience to group norms that set the terms for “belonging.”
Presenter
Lynne Layton
Lynne Layton is the daughter of lower middle-class Jewish parents who grew up in an antisemitic small town where they barely passed for white. Seeking to pass better and escape antisemitism, they chose to raise their children in an exclusively Jewish, segregated neighborhood. Socialized to be a nurse or teacher who would marry and be subordinate to a nice Jewish doctor, she turned to psychoanalysis to heal from wounds of sexism. Lynne writes about how the hierarchical norms of systemic racism, heterosexism and classism become rooted in a relational unconscious and enacted in both clinic and culture. She is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (1998) and Toward a Social Psychoanalysis. Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes (2020), winner of a 2021 book award from the American Academy and Board of Psychoanalysis. In 2024, she received the Hans Loewald award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education.
Series: Decentralized Learning Experiences
A learning experience can be almost anything, and any licensed clinician can propose one. It can be about a paper, a book or a movie. It can tackle an idea, such as field theory or dream analysis or focus on the work of a theorist. The format can be didactic or it can be a leaderless seminar or a one-hour conversation. It can be a one-off event or a series of weekly, biweekly, or monthly meetings. Currently, this program is in its pilot stage, so certain limits may apply.
Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s Learning Experiences are free.
Not all events are recorded. When we record an event it can be found in the archive.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
Defenses against Truth-Telling and Reparative Action
Tuesday, February 3rd | 6:00 – 7:30 PM PT
Description
How might we understand group forms of conscious and unconscious obstacles to political projects of truth-telling and reparation? This talk entertains some of the ways such obstacles have been described, including as an effect of “moral injury,” as an inability to experience “deserved shame,” as a “group-reinforced denial” of causing harm, and as an effect of obedience to group norms that set the terms for “belonging.”
Presenter
Lynne Layton
Lynne Layton is the daughter of lower middle-class Jewish parents who grew up in an antisemitic small town where they barely passed for white. Seeking to pass better and escape antisemitism, they chose to raise their children in an exclusively Jewish, segregated neighborhood. Socialized to be a nurse or teacher who would marry and be subordinate to a nice Jewish doctor, she turned to psychoanalysis to heal from wounds of sexism. Lynne writes about how the hierarchical norms of systemic racism, heterosexism and classism become rooted in a relational unconscious and enacted in both clinic and culture. She is the author of Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory (1998) and Toward a Social Psychoanalysis. Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes (2020), winner of a 2021 book award from the American Academy and Board of Psychoanalysis. In 2024, she received the Hans Loewald award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education.
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