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
The year we celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Karen Horney’s Birth
SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Jody Messler Davies
From Oedipus Complex to Oedipal Complexity Reconfiguring the Negative Oedipus Complex
In this presentation, I would like to take up the challenge of unyoking body and desire specifically, emphasizing the endless complexity and infinite variability of our erotic selves. My aim is to attempt to reconceptualize positive and negative Oedipal configurations of identification and counteridentification, not as specific phases of childhood sexual development, but as a lifelong struggle to sustain erotic, romantic, sexual attachments across the life cycle. I am returning to Freud’s early observation that human beings are all essentially bisexual, and attempting to radicalize this statement by delinearizing it and removing from it any normative developmental template for gender identity or sexual orientation. In such a way I hope to adapt my kaleidoscope of dynamically interacting self/other configurations into a somewhat different kaleidoscope of dynamically interacting erotic self/other paradigms, which move between foreground and background of sexual fantasy, imagination and action.
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Jody Messler Davies, Ph.D. is Co-Editor in Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: A Journal of Relational Perspectives; Faculty, Supervisor and former Co-chair of the Relational Track, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Founding Member and Former Vice President of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy; Founding Member of the Stephen A. Mitchell Center for Relational Psychoanalysis. She is on the editorial board of Gender and Sexuality and is also a Faculty and Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, The Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, and The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles. Dr. Davies is co-author (with Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea) of Treating the Adult Survivor of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective. She is currently at work on a new book, Transformation of Desire and Despair: Clinical Implications of the Theoretical Shift to a Relational Psychoanalysis. Dr. Davies has written on the topics of trauma, dissociation, multiplicity of self organization; as well as a series of papers on sexual and erotic aspects of transference/countertransference process.
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KAREN HORNEY CLINIC AUDITORIUM
329 East 62nd Street (Bet. 1st & 2nd Avenues)
ALL ARE WELCOME
Free Admission
To secure your seat please RSVP by 5/16 at aipkh@aol.com
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SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS PROGRAM OF THE AIP
2010-2011
RECENT EVENTS:
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
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
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Date & Time: Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Topic: FROM OEDIPUS COMPLEX TO OEDIPAL COMPLEXITY:
RECONFIGURING THE NEGATIVE OEDIPUS COMPLEX
Presenter: Jody Messler Davies, PhD
Date & Time: September 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: Susan Coates, PhD
Date & Time: Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: Jessica Benjamin, PhD
Date & Time: February 16, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: Beatrice Beebe, PhD
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Scientific Meetings Committee:
Giselle Galdi, PhD, Chair; Riva Tait, PhD, Vice-Chair;
Diane Friedman, PhD; Arthur Lynch, DSW & Kenneth Winarick, PhD