THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
329 East 62nd Street New York, NY 10065
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Celebrating 70 Years of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Jessica Benjamin
CONTAINING EXCESS: SEXUALITY, ATTACHMENT AND INTERSUBJECTIVITY IN THEORY AND TRANSFERENCE
This presentation focuses on the experience of disregulation that arises in infancy and contributes to the formation of sexuality, where it appears as “Excess,” in the term introduced by LaPlanche. Dr. Benjamin elaborates the relationship between containing (or not) disregulation and the formation of gender identity and how masculine and feminine positions are differently constructed regarding this problem. While the “daughter position”, as named by Benjamin, comes to contain the excess of the other, with the danger of being helplessly passive, the masculine position of uncontained excitement and need for discharge can be equally threatening. In treatment, the work with the mother-baby relationship is essential to deal with what appear to be problems of sexual inhibition and death of desire. The therapist is constantly monitored by the patient in relation to the threat of overstimulation or lack of containment, the threat of abandonment and betrayal, all of which contributes to destabilizing the attachment relationship. With men in particular, dependency on the therapist and the therapist’s subjectivity can arouse anxiety and fear of being overwhelmed, seduced and then dropped, reverberating with insecure attachment.
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Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., is a supervising faculty member at the NYU postdoctoral psychology program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as well as a founding board member of the Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She has a special interest in inter-generational transfer of trauma. The author of three books including The Bonds of Love, she is currently writing a book about collective trauma and recognizing the Other, based on experiences with Israeli-Palestinian dialogues.
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KAREN HORNEY CLINIC AUDITORIUM
329 East 62nd Street (Between 1st & 2nd Avenues)
ALL ARE WELCOME
Free Admission
Scientific Meetings Committee:
Giselle Galdi, PhD, Chair; Riva Tait, PhD, Vice-Chair;
Diane Friedman, PhD; Arthur Lynch, DSW & Kenneth Winarick, PhD
AIP Scientific Meetings Committee Fellows:
Hannah Emmerich, LMSW, Aisha Collins, MA
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
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SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS PROGRAM OF THE AIP
2011-12
CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
RECENT EVENT:
Date: Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Topic: The Impact Of Maternal Reflective Functioning On Children’s Reactions To 9/11: A Comparison Of Two Cases Presenter: SUSAN COATES, Ph.D.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Please mark your calendar for these dates. We are looking forward to seeing you.
Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Topic: Containing Excess: Sexuality, Attachment and
Intersubjectivity in Theory and Transference
Presenter: JESSICA BENJAMIN, Ph.D.
Date: Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 8:00 PM
Topic: Revisiting Technical Recommendations Regarding
Dream Interpretation
Presenter: PETER DUNN, M.D.
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: BEATRICE BEEBE, Ph.D.
Date: Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Presenter: MAGGIE ZELLNER, Ph.D.