27 Rue de Fleurus, a Salon Meeting of the Contemporary Freudian Society
“Contemporary Field Theory” A Discussion with S. Montana Katz
Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 8:00 to 9:30pm, Location: Upper East Side TBA
Psychoanalysts experience the creative fusion that takes place working with a patient, especially when something surprising and transformative emerges in the process. Madeleine and Willy Baranger described analytic processes and what happens in them that affords this creativity and also what blocks it by developing the idea of a psychoanalytic field. In their innovative work, they drew from writers in other disciplines including sociology and philosophy amongst others. The psychoanalytic field as the Barangers described it included both participants and was considered a bi-personal field. The field, following this model, has its own unconscious processes and its own fantasies. The psychoanalytic field according to the Barangers is itself the proper object of interest in analytic processes and not the intrapsychic world of the analysand. At roughly the same time and thereafter until the present, other psychoanalytic field concepts were being developed in other parts of the world, some influenced by the Barangers’ work and some independent. For example, in North America relational fields, self object matrices, intersubjective fields and other kinds of fields were being used and written about. Also in North America, Robert Langs developed an approach to psychoanalysis that was influenced by the Barangers’ work and made use of the bi-personal field. In Italy, Antonino Ferro and others have been developing Bionian Field Theory which was also influenced by the Barangers’ work as well as that of Bion. There is a family of field concepts that are useful for clinical work and draw the practitioner back to the fundamentals of what psychoanalytic process is about. In this meeting, Montana Katz will describe different psychoanalytic field concepts and use clinical examples to show how they can be used and what fields can contribute to psychoanalytic work with patients.
S. Montana Katz, PhD, LP is a training and supervising analyst and on the faculty of NPAP and is a member of the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. She is on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Review and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. She has edited several special issues of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on the subjects of metaphoric processes, field theories, and post modernism, co-chairs a discussion group on Field Theory at the meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association, has published papers in psychoanalytic journals on the subjects mentioned and others, and is the editor and contributor to Metaphor and Fields: Common Ground, Common Language and the Future of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2013).
Suggested Reading:
Baranger, M. and W. (1961/2008) “The Analytic Situation as a Dynamic Field”, IJP 89:795-826
Ferro, A. (2009) “Transformation in Dreaming and Characters in the Psychoanalytic Field”, IJP 90:209-230
Nancy Cromer Grayson and Debra Gill, Co-Chairs, Susan N. Finkelstein, Moderator
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this meeting, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the different forms of psychoanalytic field theory.
2. Use the clinical techniques specific to psychoanalytic field theories.
Who Should Attend:
This program is open to members and candidates of all psychoanalytic institutes.
Important Disclosure Information: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Suggested Contribution: $15.00
For additional information, please contact Debra Gill (212-534-0669 or debra.gill@gmail.com) or Nancy Cromer-Grayson (212-427-9023 or cromergrayson@gmail.com).
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