THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
329 East 62nd Street New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 www.aipnyc.org aipkh@aol.com
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We celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Karen Horney’s Birth
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 8:00 PM
INSIDE THE REVOLUTION: POWER, SEX, AND TECHNIQUE IN FREUD’S “WILD” ANALYSIS
At once profound and full of holes, “Wild” Analysis simultaneously declares a revolution and forges an orthodoxy. In 1910, psychoanalysis was like an exuberant plant, leafing idea upon idea, theory upon theory. But it was ahead of itself, too straight for its native immoderation. This décalage was no anomaly. Key to another revolution – and counter-revolution – that, reciprocally, gave rise to it, psychoanalysis was living in interesting times. So I situate Freud’s essay in both its local and its global histories, even while reading it closely for its deployment of power. As I go, I take up Freud’s topics, sexuality and technique, in terms of excess and hybridity, and end with a thought on technique and the primal crime.
———————————————————————————– Muriel Dimen, Ph.D. is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and former Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College (CUNY). On the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis, and other institutes, she is Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and a founding board member and former Treasurer of the International Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Her most recent book, Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 2003), received the Goethe Award from the Canadian Psychological Association for the Best Book of Psychoanalytic Scholarship published in 2003. She has also written Surviving Sexual Contradictions (NY: Macmillan, 1986) and The Anthropological Imagination (N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1977). Her co-edited books are Gender in Psychoanalytic Space: Between Clinic and Culture with Virginia Goldner (NY: The Other Press, 2002); Storms in Her Head: New Clinical and Theoretical Perspectives on Breuer and Freud’s Studies on Hysteria with Adrienne Harris (NY: The Other Press, 2001); and Regional Variation in Modern Greece and Cyprus: Toward a Perspective on the Ethnography of Greece with Ernestine Friedl (Annals, New York Academy of Sciences 263, 1976). A Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, she practices in Manhattan and supervises nationally.
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KAREN HORNEY CLINIC AUDITORIUM
329 East 62nd Street (Between 1st & 2nd Avenues)
Scientific Meetings Committee:
Giselle Galdi, PhD, Chair; Riva Tait, PhD, Vice-Chair;
Diane Friedman, PhD; Arthur Lynch, DSW & Kenneth Winarick, PhD