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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
BOOKSTORE & THE A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 8 pm, Donations Accepted
NYPSI TAKES GREAT PLEASURE IN ANNOUNCING THE FIRST OF TWO EVENINGS
DEVOTED TO BOOKS PUBLISHED BY NYPSI CANDIDATES
Dr. Francis Baudry will interview NYPSI Candidate Dr. Jamieson Webster About her new book: The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Karnac 2011)
In her book Jamieson Webster, Ph.D. argues that psychoanalysis- from its peculiar birth in Freud’s self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis- has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk themselves in this act, it is somehow upon this threatened ground that the very life of psychoanalysis depends. Perhaps psychoanalysis must always remain in a precarious, indeed ghostly, position at the limit of life and death. For Dr Webster, the life and death of psychoanalysis hinges on the question of desire itself and she brings this question back to the center of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Written through her own relation to the field, she recounts the story of her training through the interpretation of three significant dreams as well as her encounter with three thinkers for whom the problem of psychoanalysis remains crucial: Adorno, Lacan, and Badiou. In blurring the line between the personal and the theoretical, this book explores how one, through the difficult work of transference and reading, can live out the life of desire that tests the very limits of what it means to be human.
Advance praise: ‘Jamieson Webster’s reflections on psychoanalysis have a crystal clarity… With great conceptual lucidity and argumentative edge, Webster brings us close to that passionate knowledge that is psychoanalysis and that defies every systematization.’
-Judith Butler, author of Giving an Account of Oneself and Undoing Gender
‘This unique book shows us how psychoanalytic writing can be reinvented. Neither traditional academic discourse nor clinical case, it pursues the question of desire through a perpetual process of unbalancing the boundary we might expect between form and content. Thought-provoking, unnerving, and spunky, it will interest anyone working in the field of psychoanalysis.’
-Darian Leader, author of The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression and What Is Madness?
No reservations required.
For information contact Dr. Baudry at Fdbaud@aol.com
Copies of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis are available now for purchase at our bookstore (212-772-8282) and will be sold as well on the evening of the event.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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