Ken Corbett on Shifting Sexual Cultures and The Problem and Promise of Psychoanalytic Ideals at AIP



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———————————————————————————————-The year we celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Karen Horney’s Birth

SCIENTIFIC MEETING

 Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM

 Ken Corbett: Shifting Sexual Cultures and The Problem and Promise of Psychoanalytic Ideals

  When sex brings someone to an analyst it is most often due to a lack or an abundance of desire. It then becomes the analyst’s job to accompany the patient in acts of recollection, mentalization, and repair of that which has gone missing and/or that which feels to be out of control. In the course of such treatments, patients now routinely bring in stories of their sexual lives and practices that include accounts of on-line cruising and hooking-up. One in six relationships (whatever their duration) now begin on-line. In my experience, patients most often seek help with repression and lack in their sexual lives. Be that as it may, one occasionally meets the patient who feels he has lost hold of his sexual life. Frankly, I am always skeptical of such claims, and my skepticism is often borne out, as together, I and the patient, come to understand that this feeling of a loss of control is an expression of shame, the breakdown of repression, or an expression of melancholia. I discuss two cases, and how the consideration of sexual shame, non-normative sexual desires, and the necessity of sexual practice were key to these treatments. I consider how on-line hook-ups afford many things, including a potential space for practice of a sexual life that has yet to be found or formed.

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     Ken Corbett, Ph.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychology at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities (Yale University Press, 2009). Dr. Corbett is an analyst in private practice with children and adults.       

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MEETINGS PROGRAM OF THE AIP

2010-2011

      Date & Time:         Thursday, October 21, 2010 at 8:00 PM

     Topic:                    INSIDE THE REVOLUTION: POWER, SEX, AND

                                  TECHNIQUE IN FREUD’S “WILD” ANALYSIS

     Presenter:             Muriel Dimen, PhD

      Date & Time:         Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 8:00 PM

     Topic:                    TRANS: GENDER IN FREE FALL

     Presenter:             Virginia Goldner, PhD

     Date & Time:         Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 8:00 PM

     Topic:                    PLAYS’ MAGIC AND PLAY’S LIMITS:

                                  On Laughter and Transformation

     Presenter:             Darlene Ehrenberg, PhD

    FUTURE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS:

      Date & Time:         Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM

     Topic:                    SHIFTING SEXUAL CULTURES AND THE PROBLEM

                                  AND PROMISE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEALS

     Presenter:             Ken Corbett, PhD

      Date & Time:         Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 8:00 PM

     Topic:                    TBA

 Presenter:             Jodi Davies, PhD

 Scientific Meetings Committee:

Giselle Galdi, PhD, Chair; Riva Tait, PhD, Vice-Chair; Diane Friedman, PhD; Arthur Lynch, DSW & Kenneth Winarick, PhD

 OPEN HOUSE EVENTS OF THE AIP:

    Saturday, March 26, 2011       1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
   Saturday, April 30, 2011         1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
   Saturday, June 4, 2011          10:00 AM – 12:00 PM