The Seattle Psychoanalytic Soceity and Institute and the
Committe on Women and Psychoanalysis and the International Psychoanalytic Association Present:
Images of Women
Venus in Front of the Mirror (Detail), Peter Paul Rubens
LICHTENSTEIN, The Princely Collections, Vaduz-Vienna
When: Friday evening October 5 & Saturday October 6, 2012
Where: Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
This conference will focus on iconic images of women in art and literature, as well as intrapsychic images of women in clinical material. We will explore how these images impact and reflect the ways women are experiences and experience themselves throughout the life cycle.
Laurie Wilson (NY, NY) on “The Femtal Body in Art – Adoration, Attraction, Horror”
Cecile Bassen (Seattle, WA) on “Coming of Age: Depictions of Women in Fairy Tales”
Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp (Kassel, Germany) on “The Second Change: Menopause as Crisis and Chance”
Mariam Alizade (Buenos Aires, Argentina) on “Verbal Incest and Its Psychic Consequences”
with Discussants
Arlene Kramer Richards, Phyllis Tyson, Maxine Anderson, and Frances Thomson-Salo
Additional information on the conference and on pre-conference events will be posted as www.spsi.org
For questions, contact Cecile Bassen (cbassen@hotmail.com) or Victoria Jenkins (206-328-5315 or victoria@spsi.org)