Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
BOOK PRESENTATION WITH SCREENING
Dreaming of Repairing History: Psychoanalysis, Cinema, Politics
Jean-Jacques Moscovitz
Saturday, July 11, 2015
10:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Cinema and psychoanalysis, both born in the late 19th century, have always linked the most intimate aspects of our lives with the social and political. In films ranging from Andalusian Dog to Shoah to Salò to Gloria to A Dangerous Method, psychoanalyst Jean-Jacques Moscovitz discerns effects on viewers that analysts regularly hear in patients’ symptoms, inhibitions and anxieties. Enriching our vision of the world, cinema and psychoanalysis enable the inscription of personal and collective traumas in the writing of History at large.
The presentation of Dreaming of Repairing History will be followed by a screening of
Zelig
by Woody Allen.
Discussants: Christopher Christian and Jacques Houis
Jean-Jacques Moscovitz is a psychoanalyst practicing in Paris. He was a member of the former École freudienne de Paris, and is a member of the association Espace Analytique and a founding member of the association Psychanalyse Actuelle and of the film-and-psychoanalysis group Le Regard Qui Bat. Besides his numerous books on psychoanalysis he is the author of Letter of a Psychoanalyst to Steven Spielberg.
Christopher Christian is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research and a Member of the Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is the co-editor with Michael J. Diamond of The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action and the co-editor with Morris Eagle and David Wolitzky of the forthcoming book Conflict and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Reassessment (Routledge).
Jacques Houis is a teacher of French at The Brearley School, a literary translator (among other works, of The Comic Romance by Paul Scarron, Alma Classics, 2012), a writer (his “Transgressive Autofictions: Literary Counterculture in 1960s Saint-Germain-des-Prés” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Fall 2013, concerns the writers Françoise d’Eaubonne, Nicolas Genka, Jean Sénac and Patrick MacAvoy) and a co-editor, with Paola Mieli and Mark Stafford, of Being Human: The Technological Extensions of the Body, Marsilio, 1999. He recently finished the English translation of Patrick MacAvoy’s novella, La ballade.
Attendance is free and open to the public.
Please ask at the desk for the room number.
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