This Zoom event begins at 9am PST.
This program, when participated in its entirety, is available for 2.5 continuing education credits. Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This presentation also meets the requirements of WAC 246-809-620 (definition of recognized categories of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists and social workers).
The experience of knowing and being known is invested with erotism via its interpenetrative and inter-receptive aspects; regardless of gender, to know the other is to enter a hidden interior "space" that represents that person's embodied inner world. Yet the interrogation of the intrinsic relationship between knowing and loving is stunningly absent from the psychoanalytic literature. This historical neglect is traced to a split in the discourse presaged by Freud's essay on transference love, which distinguishes between the qualified reality of the erotic transference and the de-eroticized but "real" con-struct of the "analytic love" relationship. A more recent split relocates erotism to the maternal transference, divesting it of aggression and oedipal sexuality. These splits constitute a vigorous collective defense against engaging with the erotics of knowing: from Oedipus to Genesis, our forbidden fruit.
Presenter: Adele Tutter MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, the Columbia University Vagelos School of Medicine, and the Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program of the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She teaches at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Teaching and Research and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Her interdisciplinary psychoanalytic scholarship focuses on creativity, grief, and the relationship between them, and has earned the Hartman, Menninger, Liebert, CORST and Ticho Prizes, among others. In addition to many journal articles, she authored the monograph, Dream House: An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House, edited The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration, and, with Léon Wurmser, coedited Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity. She is a long-standing member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Quarterly and American Imago, and maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis in Manhattan and the Catskill Mountains of New York.
Learning Objectives:
After attending this event, participants will be able to:
- Identify common splits in the psychoanalytic discourse around erotic transference and countertransference.
- Describe the extra-transferential erotism inherent to analytic work.
- Discuss ways to integrate/manage the reality of analytic erotism in psychoanalytic practice.
Participants: This event is designed for graduate level students in mental health and all mental health professionals from introductory to advanced levels.
Class size: Limited to 12 participants
Cost: $170 for Alliance members/$190 non-Alliance members
Refund Policy: Refunds less a $35 handling fee will be given up until three weeks before the presentation.
This program, when participated in its entirety, is available for 2.5 continuing education credits. Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Division 39 is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions, concerns and any complaints to Danny Gellersen at dannygellersen@gmail.com. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants will be informed of the utility/validity of the content/approach discussed (including the basis for the statements about validity/utility), as well as the limitations of the approach and most common (and severe) risks, if any, associated with the program's content.
SPPP (Division 39) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SPPP maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
